{"id":746169,"date":"2026-07-06T09:13:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T09:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/746169\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T09:13:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T09:13:15","slug":"rui-hachimura-not-expected-to-return-to-lakers-focus-on-jonathan-kuminga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/746169\/","title":{"rendered":"Rui Hachimura not expected to return to Lakers, focus on Jonathan Kuminga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">There is a corresponding (and growing) expectation that free agent forward Rui Hachimura will join James in exiting Tinseltown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">The Lakers, league sources say, are focused on adding a wing and another big man after Friday\u2019s agreement with Washington to trade Deandre Ayton for the slightly less expensive Jaden Hardy and two future second-round picks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">And a good bit of that focus, sources say, has involved Kuminga.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There is a corresponding (and growing) expectation that free agent forward Rui Hachimura will join James in exiting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":746170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[315490,24072,355,99],"class_list":["post-746169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-lakers-free-agency","tag-lakers-rumors","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/746170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}