{"id":18986,"date":"2025-06-27T11:59:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T11:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/18986\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T11:59:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T11:59:11","slug":"villanova-basketballs-eric-dixon-signs-with-los-angeles-lakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/18986\/","title":{"rendered":"Villanova basketball\u2019s Eric Dixon signs with Los Angeles Lakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"TSovny\">Villanova Basketball\u2019s Eric Dixon might not have heard his name called during the 2025 NBA Draft, but it didn\u2019t take long for him to land a deal and an opportunity to make the jump.<\/p>\n<p id=\"P24t5O\">Shortly after the 2025 NBA Draft ended on Thursday night, Dixon landed a deal with the Los Angeles Lakers, per ESPN\u2019s Shams Charania.<\/p>\n<p id=\"wkenC0\">The Wildcats standout led college basketball by averaging 23.3 points per game. he racked up 2,314 points over his five years at Villanova, surpassing the record set by Kerry Kittles to become Villanova\u2019s all-time leading scorer. He also averaged 5.1 boards and 1.9 assists per game this past season. He also shot 40.7% from beyond the arc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Villanova Basketball\u2019s Eric Dixon might not have heard his name called during the 2025 NBA Draft, but it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[4231,1339,1582,276,17940,10888,204,17943,2961,8604,4230,224,5337,196,17941,17373,17944,17942,1917],"class_list":{"0":"post-18986","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-angeles","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-california","12":"tag-dixon","13":"tag-eric","14":"tag-front-page","15":"tag-hoops","16":"tag-la","17":"tag-lakers","18":"tag-los","19":"tag-los-angeles","20":"tag-losangeles","21":"tag-s","22":"tag-signs","23":"tag-villanova","24":"tag-villanova-basketball","25":"tag-vu","26":"tag-with"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114755217979237283","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}