The Los Angeles Lakers have officially added a veteran presence to their frontcourt, signing Kevon Looney on Monday.<\/p>\n
Looney, 30, joins the Lakers after spending the 2025-26 season with the New Orleans Pelicans. He brings 11 seasons of NBA experience, along with the championship pedigree of a player who helped the Golden State Warriors win three NBA titles.<\/p>\n
Throughout his career, Looney has built a reputation as a reliable rebounder, defender and ball screener, which will work well with Luka Don\u010di\u0107 and Austin Reaves.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In 620 career regular-season games with the Warriors and Pelicans, he has averaged 4.9 points and 5.7 rebounds while shooting 57.0% from the field.<\/p>\n
The 6-foot-9 big man has been especially effective on the offensive glass. During the 2022-23 season, Looney led the NBA with 274 offensive rebounds and averaged a career-high 9.3 rebounds per game in 82 contests.<\/p>\n
Looney spent the majority of his career in Golden State, where he became a key part of the Warriors\u2019 championship teams. In 89 career playoff games, he has averaged 5.3 points and 6.3 rebounds on 61.2% shooting from the field.<\/p>\n
Last season in New Orleans, Looney appeared in 21 games, averaging 2.8 points and 5.6 rebounds in limited minutes.<\/p>\n
The Lakers are adding Looney to provide frontcourt depth and another experienced voice in the locker room. He is expected to compete for minutes as a backup big man while bringing rebounding, toughness and championship experience to L.A.<\/p>\n
Looney will wear No. 55 with the Lakers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Lakers have officially added a veteran presence to their frontcourt, signing Kevon Looney on Monday.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":786162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3796],"tags":[7,2967,1698,150,6,478,470,4073,4072,67,675,4536],"class_list":["post-786161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-orleans-pelicans","tag-basketball","tag-kevon-looney","tag-la-lakers","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-nba","tag-new-orleans","tag-new-orleans-pelicans","tag-neworleans","tag-neworleanspelicans","tag-news","tag-pelicans","tag-tst-los-angeles"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116916761651151493","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786161","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=786161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}