{"id":124149,"date":"2026-06-29T15:31:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T15:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/29\/deandre-ayton-exercises-8-1m-option-to-stay-with-lakers\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T15:31:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T15:31:04","slug":"deandre-ayton-exercises-8-1m-option-to-stay-with-lakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/29\/deandre-ayton-exercises-8-1m-option-to-stay-with-lakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Deandre Ayton exercises $8.1M option to stay with Lakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><br \/>\nDeandre Ayton will remain with the Los Angeles Lakers for the 2026-27 season after exercising his $8.1 million player option, according to ESPN insider Shams Charania. The move keeps the Lakers&#8217; starting center under contract after a productive first season in Los Angeles, though it is not expected to end the organization&#8217;s pursuit of additional [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\/220432-deandre-ayton-exercises-8-1m-option-to-stay-with-lakers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Deandre Ayton exercises $8.1M option to stay with Lakers<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TalkBasket.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\/220432-deandre-ayton-exercises-8-1m-option-to-stay-with-lakers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deandre Ayton will remain with the Los Angeles Lakers for the 2026-27 season after exercising his $8.1 million player option, according to ESPN insider Shams Charania. The move keeps the Lakers&#8217; starting center under contract after a productive first season in Los Angeles, though it is not expected to end the organization&#8217;s pursuit of additional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":124150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124149"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}