{"id":13279,"date":"2025-06-29T12:20:35","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T16:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/finney-smith-rejects-option-with-lakers-headed-to-nba-free-agency\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T12:20:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T16:20:35","slug":"finney-smith-rejects-option-with-lakers-headed-to-nba-free-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nba\/finney-smith-rejects-option-with-lakers-headed-to-nba-free-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"Finney-Smith Rejects Option with Lakers: Headed to NBA Free Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Dorian Finney-Smith Declines Option with Lakers and Enters Free Agency<\/h2>\n<p>Los Angeles Lakers forward Dorian Finney-Smith has decided to decline his player option for $15.4 million for the 2025-26 season. According to sources, the player will become a free agent.<\/p>\n<p>Several contending teams are expected to pursue Finney-Smith starting Monday night, though a return to the Lakers remains a possibility.<\/p>\n<p>Finney-Smith, 32, arrived at the Lakers in December via a trade from the Brooklyn Nets, and had an immediate impact on the team. The forward averaged almost 29 minutes per game with the Lakers, with 39.8% effectiveness in three-point shots.<\/p>\n<p>Known for his defensive versatility, Finney-Smith was key to the functioning of the Lakers&#8217; fast-break units. The player has extensive experience playing with Luka Don\u010di\u0107, as they both shared five years with the Dallas Mavericks.<\/p>\n<p>Lakers coach JJ Redick relied heavily on Finney-Smith during the playoffs, giving him 34 minutes of playing time per game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dorian Finney-Smith Declines Option with Lakers and Enters Free Agency Los Angeles Lakers forward Dorian Finney-Smith has decided to decline his player option for $15.4 million for the 2025-26 season. According to sources, the player will become a free agent. Several contending teams are expected to pursue Finney-Smith starting Monday night, though a return to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[3994,375,120,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-13279","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-dorian-finney-smith","9":"tag-free-agency","10":"tag-lakers","11":"tag-nba"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}