{"id":929165,"date":"2026-07-12T04:36:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T04:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/929165\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T04:36:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T04:36:12","slug":"lakers-arthur-kaluma-scores-34-points-in-breakout-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/929165\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers’ Arthur Kaluma scores 34 points in breakout performance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

LAS VEGAS\u00a0\u2014\u00a0The door opened for Arthur Kaluma<\/a> to show his worth for the Lakers<\/a> in the NBA Summer League on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

He did so in a big way.<\/p>\n

Kaluma had 34 points and five rebounds during the Lakers\u2019 91-70 win<\/a> over the Dallas Mavericks at the Thomas & Mack Center.<\/p>\n

He was 11 for 16 from the field and six for 10 from three-point range.<\/p>\n

Late in the fourth quarter, Kaluma lined up a three-pointer, setting his feet and scoring from 29 feet out. He flashed three fingers and smiled. His teammates on the bench stood and cheered, as did the fans.<\/p>\n

Kaluma played for the South Bay Lakers last season. He averaged 14.6 points per game, 4.9 rebounds and shot 55% from the field, 37% from three-point range.<\/p>\n

Kaluma wasn\u2019t alone in helping the Lakers improve to 2-0 in Summer League play.<\/p>\n

Adou Thiero<\/a> ran the court, took a lob pass from Chris Ma\u00f1on<\/a> and threw down a two-handed dunk. He had another solid outing with 15 points and four rebounds. He shot just four for 12 from the field, but was a plus-15.<\/p>\n

Lakers rookie guard Cameron Carr<\/a> was unable to get more reps because of a right thumb contusion that kept him sidelined.<\/p>\n

Carr, the 24th pick in the NBA draft, is averaging 17 points per game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS\u00a0\u2014\u00a0The door opened for Arthur Kaluma to show his worth for the Lakers in the NBA Summer…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":929166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[40],"tags":[17377,62995,374717,292199,2091,10713,1910,8604,223965,2444,374016,1260,35848,449,24566,62,24565,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-929165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-adou-thiero","tag-arthur-kaluma","tag-breakout-performance","tag-chris-manon","tag-field","tag-foot","tag-game","tag-lakers","tag-lob-pass","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-mack-center","tag-nba","tag-nba-summer-league","tag-point","tag-rebound","tag-sports","tag-three-point-range","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116905154265700262","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929165","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=929165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/929166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}