{"id":148830,"date":"2025-07-05T10:31:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T10:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/148830\/"},"modified":"2025-07-05T10:31:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T10:31:12","slug":"lakers-won-small-bidding-war-for-jake-laravia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/148830\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers Won Small Bidding War For Jake LaRavia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Lakers won a &#8220;small bidding war&#8221; among several teams to sign Jake LaRavia at the start of free agency, sources tell ESPN. Despite their glaring need for a center, LaRavia was reportedly the Lakers&#8217; top priority in free agency after losing Dorian Finney-Smith.<\/p>\n<p>In 66 games last season with the Memphis Grizzlies and Sacramento Kings, LaRavia averaged 6.9 points, 3.9 rebounds and 2.4 assists while shooting 42.3 percent on three-pointers. LaRavia was an unrestricted free agent after the Grizzlies declined their fourth-year option on him.<\/p>\n<p>LaRavia&#8217;s two-year, $12 million contract is fully guaranteed and the Lakers could use Early Bird rights to re-sign him when he&#8217;s a free agent again in 2027. LaRavia is represented by <a href=\"https:\/\/basketball.realgm.com\/info\/agent_clients\/Aaron-Reilly\/204\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aaron Reilly<\/a>, who also represents Austin Reaves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Lakers won a &#8220;small bidding war&#8221; among several teams to sign Jake LaRavia at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[7,28520,331],"class_list":{"0":"post-148830","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-lakers-won-small-bidding-war-for-jake-laravia","10":"tag-realgm-wiretap"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114800170596896025","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}