{"id":263333,"date":"2025-09-29T08:21:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T08:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/263333\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T08:21:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T08:21:10","slug":"lakers-have-waived-a-player-prior-to-the-start-of-training-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/263333\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers have waived a player prior to the start of training camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the eve of their annual media day to kick off training camp, the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/los-angeles-lakers\/13\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Los Angeles Lakers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> have reportedly made a roster move.<\/p>\n<p>They have waived Kylor Kelley, a center they <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/lakers-added-center-roster-022217347.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:recently signed;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recently signed<\/a> to an Exhibit 10 deal. Kelley, a seven-footer out of Oregon State University, went undrafted in 2020 and logged 11 games last season with the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/dallas-mavericks\/6\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Dallas Mavericks;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Dallas Mavericks<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/new-orleans-pelicans\/3\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:New Orleans Pelicans;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">New Orleans Pelicans<\/a>. During those games, he had averaged 3.1 points on 63.6% shooting from the field and 3.5 rebounds in 11.5 minutes a game.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>While in college, he had been named to the Pac-12 All-Defensive Team twice for the 2018-19 and 2019-20 seasons.<\/p>\n<p>The team had signed Kelley to an Exhibit 10 deal last summer, and he ended up with the South Bay Lakers, its G League affiliate, where he averaged 11.1 points on 67.4% field-goal shooting, 6.8 rebounds and 2.0 blocks in 24.3 minutes a game.<\/p>\n<p>After L.A. holds media day, it will play its first preseason game of the 2025-26 schedule this Friday, Oct. 3, against the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/phoenix-suns\/21\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Phoenix Suns;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Phoenix Suns<\/a>. Its first regular-season contest will take place on Tuesday, Oct. 21, against the Golden State Warriors at Crypto.com Arena.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on LeBron Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/lebronwire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/2025\/09\/29\/the-lakers-have-waived-a-player-prior-to-start-of-training-camp\/86415143007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Lakers have waived a player prior to start of training camp;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The Lakers have waived a player prior to start of training camp<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On the eve of their annual media day to kick off training camp, the Los Angeles Lakers have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":103831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3139,3140,137640,3141,1260,3137,95686,1721,62,20026,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-263333","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-dallas-mavericks","9":"tag-golden-state-warriors","10":"tag-kylor-kelley","11":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-new-orleans-pelicans","14":"tag-oregon-state-university","15":"tag-phoenix-suns","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-training-camp","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115286618028262613","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263333","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=263333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}