{"id":804631,"date":"2026-08-05T22:21:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T22:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/804631\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T22:21:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T22:21:15","slug":"former-lakers-champion-officially-signs-with-new-nba-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/804631\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Lakers Champion Officially Signs With New NBA Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\tFormer Lakers Champion Officially Signs With New NBA Team<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a itemprop=\"item\" href=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/\" class=\"c-breadcrumbs__item\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HEAVY<\/a> <a itemprop=\"item\" href=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/sports\/nba\/\" class=\"c-breadcrumbs__item\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Heavy on NBA<\/a> <a itemprop=\"item\" href=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/sports\/nba\/los-angeles-lakers\/\" class=\"c-breadcrumbs__item\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Heavy on Lakers<\/a> Former Los Angeles Lakers Champion Officially Signs With New NBA Team<\/p>\n<p>\t\tGet Lakers News\n<\/p>\n<p>\t\tUpdated<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tAug 5, 2026 at 6:19pm\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"780\" height=\"520\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-2242509340.jpg\" class=\"attachment-featured-image size-featured-image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\"   decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGetty\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA &#8211; OCTOBER 21: A detailed view of the Los Angeles Lakers logo at midcourt before the game against the Golden State Warriors at Crypto.com Arena on October 21, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, user is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Luke Hales\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, the <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/sports\/nba\/philadelphia-76ers\/\" title=\"Philadelphia 76ers\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\" data-wpil-monitor-id=\"376493\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia 76ers<\/a> officially announced the news that they had signed Kentavious Caldwell-Pope.<\/p>\n<p>Caldwell-Pope appeared in 51 games for the <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/sports\/nba\/memphis-grizzlies\/\" title=\"Memphis Grizzlies\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\" data-wpil-monitor-id=\"376492\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Memphis Grizzlies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He averaged 8.4 points, 2.5 rebounds and 2.7 assists per contest while shooting 41.0% from the field and 31.6% from three-point range.<\/p>\n<p>sixers.com <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/sixers\/news\/philadelphia-76ers-sign-two-time-nba-champion-kentavious-caldwell-pope\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external nofollow\">wrote<\/a>: \u201cPhiladelphia 76ers President of Basketball Operations Mike Gansey announced today that the team has signed Kentavious Caldwell-Pope. Per team policy, terms of the deal were not disclosed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/author\/benstinarheavy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Stinar<\/a> Ben Stinar has been covering the NBA for over seven years.\u00a0&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nHe has written for OnSI, Forbes, Amico Hoops, The Big Lead and had a podcast with former All-Star Jameer Nelson. <a href=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/author\/benstinarheavy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More about Ben Stinar<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t0 Comments\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore Heavy on Lakers\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tLoading more stories\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, the Philadelphia 76ers officially announced the news that they had signed Kentavious Caldwell-Pope.Caldwell-Pope appeared in 51 games for the Memphis Grizzlies.He averaged 8.4 points, 2.5 rebounds and 2.7 assists per contest while shooting 41.0% from the field and 31.6% from three-point range.sixers.com wrote: \u201cPhiladelphia 76ers President of Basketball Operations Mike Gansey announced today [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>wpDiscuzWould love your thoughts, please comment<a href=\"#\">x<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Insert<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Lakers Champion Officially Signs With New NBA Team HEAVY Heavy on NBA Heavy on Lakers Former Los&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":804632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3790],"tags":[7,4034,1698,300,4044,251,150,4033,4043,6],"class_list":["post-804631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles-lakers","tag-basketball","tag-la","tag-la-lakers","tag-lakers","tag-lalakers","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-losangeles","tag-losangeleslakers","tag-nba"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117045237404139712","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804631","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=804631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/804632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}