{"id":906970,"date":"2026-07-02T07:07:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T07:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/906970\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T07:07:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T07:07:26","slug":"we-werent-surprised-one-team-source-told-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/906970\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWe weren\u2019t surprised,\u201d one team source told The \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/teams\/la-lakers\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Lakers;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Lakers&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lakers<\/a> weren\u2019t going to have the same kind of \u201cif he shoots it, it\u2019s going in\u201d threat from 3 after <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/players\/5825\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Luke Kennard;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Luke Kennard&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luke Kennard<\/a> signed with 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\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Phoenix Suns&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Phoenix Suns<\/a>. And again \u2014 they were losing <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/players\/3704\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:LeBron James;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;LeBron James&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LeBron James<\/a>. LeBron James. But though the Lakers\u2019 fanbase winced, the franchise pushed forward with its plan \u2014 one more grounded in reality than people outside the organization could\u2019ve imagined \u2026 even if day one was a total dud. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7415227\/2026\/07\/01\/lakers-luka-doncic-post-lebron-james-offseason-moves\/?unlocked_article_code=1.ulA.XFVM.Ju5tuOr5QIUD\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:\u201cWe weren\u2019t surprised,\u201d one team source told The Athletic, granted anonymity to freely discuss the Lakers\u2019 offseason moves;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;\u201cWe weren\u2019t surprised,\u201d one team source told The Athletic, granted anonymity to freely discuss the Lakers\u2019 offseason moves&quot;}\" class=\"link \">\u201cWe weren\u2019t surprised,\u201d one team source told The Athletic, granted anonymity to freely discuss the Lakers\u2019 offseason moves<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7415227\/2026\/07\/01\/lakers-luka-doncic-post-lebron-james-offseason-moves\/?unlocked_article_code=1.ulA.XFVM.Ju5tuOr5QIUD\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:New York Times;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;New York Times&quot;}\" class=\"link \">New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Lakers weren\u2019t going to have the same kind of \u201cif he shoots it, it\u2019s going in\u201d threat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":893569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[40],"tags":[8604,3363,25881,1260,1721,62,1887,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-906970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-lakers","tag-lebron-james","tag-luke-kennard","tag-nba","tag-phoenix-suns","tag-sports","tag-the-athletic","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116849124851891357","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906970","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=906970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/893569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}