{"id":916180,"date":"2026-07-06T11:10:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T11:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/916180\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T11:10:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T11:10:16","slug":"kessler-is-viewed-as-the-perfect-fit-alongside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/916180\/","title":{"rendered":"Kessler is viewed as the \u201cperfect\u201d fit alongside \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/lakers\/story\/2026-07-01\/lakers-reload-with-four-new-players-including-sandro-mamukelashvili\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Kessler is viewed as the \u201cperfect\u201d fit alongside Doncic and Austin Reaves,;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;Kessler is viewed as the \u201cperfect\u201d fit alongside Doncic and Austin Reaves,&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Kessler is viewed as the \u201cperfect\u201d fit alongside Doncic and Austin Reaves,<\/a> according executives and scouts around the league. He is seen as a very good rebounder, shot-blocker and lob threat, which goes with what Doncic likes to have on his team. The NBA announced that the salary cap for the 2026-27 season is set at $164.961 million and the tax level is at $200.428 million. The first apron level is $209.015 million and the second apron is $221.686 million.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/lakers\/story\/2026-07-01\/lakers-reload-with-four-new-players-including-sandro-mamukelashvili\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Los Angeles 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;Los Angeles Times&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Los Angeles Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kessler is viewed as the \u201cperfect\u201d fit alongside Doncic and Austin Reaves, according executives and scouts around the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":916181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[40],"tags":[17378,52369,63259,1260,62,14863,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-916180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-austin-reaves","tag-doncic","tag-kessler","tag-nba","tag-sports","tag-the-nba","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116872729392808668","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916180","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=916180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/916181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}