{"id":766565,"date":"2026-07-16T16:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T16:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/766565\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T16:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T16:15:09","slug":"walker-kessler-ready-to-run-through-a-brick-wall-for-lakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/766565\/","title":{"rendered":"Walker Kessler ready to \u2018run through a brick wall\u2019 for Lakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">\u201cIt definitely makes you feel a certain way when you know an organization believes in you,\u201d Kessler said on Monday during his first media availability since joining the Lakers. \u201cAnd I think what they\u2019ve invested, they\u2019re showing that belief in a monetary value, not just with money, but like you said, assets. And for me, I\u2019m somebody that if I know that they have that belief in me, I\u2019m gonna run through a brick wall for them. That\u2019s just how I\u2019ve been wired my whole life and it definitely makes it a lot easier to go out there and compete for a team.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt definitely makes you feel a certain way when you know an organization believes in you,\u201d Kessler said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":766566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[43364,355,99],"class_list":["post-766565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-lakers-news","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766565","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=766565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/766566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}