{"id":911391,"date":"2026-07-04T05:42:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T05:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/911391\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T05:42:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T05:42:15","slug":"chris-manon-re-signs-with-lakers-on-two-way-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/911391\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Manon Re-Signs With Lakers On Two-Way Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Restricted free agent guard <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/m\/manonch01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-07-03_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chris Manon<\/a><\/strong> has re-signed with the <strong>Lakers<\/strong> on another two-way contract, the team announced in a press release (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/khobi_price\/status\/2073240712217542756\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter link<\/a> via Khobi Price of The California Post).<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Chris-Manon-vert-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-454324\"  \/>Los Angeles <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2026\/06\/wolves-freeman-lakers-manon-receive-qualifying-offers.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">tendered<\/a> Manon a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2026\/05\/hoops-rumors-glossary-qualifying-offer-3.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">qualifying offer<\/a> last week, making him restricted. He likely simply accepted that two-way QO to return to the Lakers.<\/p>\n<p>A 6\u20194\u2033 wing who went undrafted last year out of Vanderbilt, Manon spent his entire rookie season on a two-way contract with the Lakers. Although he only played 46 total minutes in nine games at the NBA level, the 24-year-old impressed in the G League with the team\u2019s affiliate in South Bay.<\/p>\n<p>In 46 Tip-Off Tournament and regular season games (26.9 minutes per contest) with South Bay in 2025\/26, Manon averaged 11.6 points, 6.0 rebounds, 2.5 assists, 2.1 steals and 0.9 blocks on .511\/.315\/.737 shooting splits. He was <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2026\/04\/nba-g-league-announces-roy-dpoy-coy-award-winners.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">runner-up<\/a> for the NBAGL\u2019s Defensive Player of the Year award and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2026\/04\/and-ones-nba-awards-picks-g-league-awards.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">earned a spot<\/a> on the G League\u2019s All-Defensive team (there\u2019s only one).<\/p>\n<p>Manon technically fills the first of the Lakers\u2019 three two-way spots. However, the team <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2026\/06\/peter-suder-joining-lakers-on-two-way-deal.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reportedly<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2026\/06\/lakers-signing-ak-okereke-to-two-way-contract.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reached<\/a> two-way agreements with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sports-reference.com\/cbb\/players\/peter-suder-1.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-07-03_cbb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Peter Suder<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sports-reference.com\/cbb\/players\/ak-okereke-1.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-07-03_cbb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">AK Okereke<\/a><\/strong> shortly after they went undrafted last week. Once those two signings are official, all three of the team\u2019s slots will be filled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Restricted free agent guard Chris Manon has re-signed with the Lakers on another two-way contract, the team announced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":911392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[42],"tags":[292199,293,62,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-911391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-chris-manon","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116860116552169773","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911391","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=911391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/911392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}