{"id":760236,"date":"2026-07-13T11:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T11:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/760236\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T11:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T11:29:08","slug":"just-the-name-itself-all-of-the-legends-play-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/760236\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cJust the name itself \u2014 all of the legends play for \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/07\/12\/sports\/sandro-mamukelashvili-talks-lakers-life-in-los-angeles\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:\u201cJust the name itself \u2014 all of the legends play for the Lakers,\u201d Sandro Mamukelashvili told The Post of why he signed with the famed team. \u201cThe organization is a very high-level organization. They\u2019re starting a new page, and it\u2019s just unbelievable to be part of it.\u201d;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;\u201cJust the name itself \u2014 all of the legends play for the Lakers,\u201d Sandro Mamukelashvili told The Post of why he signed with the famed team. \u201cThe organization is a very high-level organization. They\u2019re starting a new page, and it\u2019s just unbelievable to be part of it.\u201d&quot;}\" class=\"link \">\u201cJust the name itself \u2014 all of the legends play for the Lakers,\u201d Sandro Mamukelashvili told The Post of why he signed with the famed team. \u201cThe organization is a very high-level organization. They\u2019re starting a new page, and it\u2019s just unbelievable to be part of it.\u201d <\/a> Mamukelashvili, who got a \u201cMamba Mentality\u201d tattoo while he was in college at Seton Hall, grew up a fan of late Lakers icon <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/players\/3118\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Kobe;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Kobe&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kobe<\/a> Bryant. \u201cI could only imagine this really in 2K, that I would be playing for this team,\u201d Mamukelashvili said. \u201cI\u2019m so excited, so happy. The coaching staff is amazing, and I can\u2019t wait to just put the jersey on, go out there and just play my heart out every night. You gotta have a chip on your shoulder when you play for the Lakers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/07\/12\/sports\/sandro-mamukelashvili-talks-lakers-life-in-los-angeles\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:New York Post;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;New York Post&quot;}\" class=\"link \">New York Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cJust the name itself \u2014 all of the legends play for the Lakers,\u201d Sandro Mamukelashvili told The Post&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":760237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[25694,6306,325439,355,118738,99],"class_list":["post-760236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-kobe","tag-lakers","tag-mamba-mentality","tag-nba","tag-sandro-mamukelashvili","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760236","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=760236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/760237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}