{"id":780991,"date":"2026-07-24T02:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T02:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/780991\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T02:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T02:20:11","slug":"the-lakers-keep-calling-about-jonathan-kuminga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/780991\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lakers \u2018keep calling\u2019 about Jonathan Kuminga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">\u201cI can tell you that they keep calling Jonathan Kuminga. And again, obviously they have not made a lucrative enough offer for Kuminga to jump. But part of their pitch has been, \u2018Hey, you can come start here potentially.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">\u201cAnd that says two things to me. Number one, it says the Lakers still don\u2019t want to be done making moves.\u2029And they believe they\u2019re a little weak on the wing position. Which, I think [Matisse] Thybulle will help. I think Ziaire Williams will help, but they could use some more juice on the wing, and maybe they get Kuminga done. Maybe they don\u2019t. I think the LeBron domino affects Kuminga and what he may or may not be able to get. But, again, all I can tell you is Rob Pelinka keeps calling about Jonathan Kuminga\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI can tell you that they keep calling Jonathan Kuminga. And again, obviously they have not made a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[315490,24072,355,99],"class_list":["post-780991","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\/780991","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=780991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}