{"id":17519,"date":"2020-11-21T15:23:16","date_gmt":"2020-11-21T09:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=74582"},"modified":"2020-11-21T15:23:16","modified_gmt":"2020-11-21T09:53:16","slug":"la-clippers-forward-montrezl-harrell-signs-for-rivals-la-lakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/nba\/la-clippers-forward-montrezl-harrell-signs-for-rivals-la-lakers\/","title":{"rendered":"LA Clippers forward Montrezl Harrell signs for rivals LA Lakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Lakers have secured the signing of Ex-Clippers forward\/center Montrezl Harrell on a two year contract, according to ESPN\u2019s Adrian Wojnarowski. The reliable journalist announced the news which came as a surprise for the NBA community.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Free agent Montrezl Harrell has agreed to a two-year deal with the Los Angeles Lakers, agent Rich Paul of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KlutchSports?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@KlutchSports<\/a> tells ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wojespn\/status\/1329978877989580801?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 21, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Harrell entered into free agency this window and has joined city rivals LA Lakers on a deal worth $9.25 million the first year and $9.72 million the second, according to ESPN\u2019s Bobby Marks.<\/p>\n<p>The move came as a shock to particularly Harrell\u2019s ex-Clippers\u2019 teammate Patrick Beverley, who expressed his disappointment on Twitter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83e\udd26\ud83c\udffe\u200d\u2642\ufe0fwhat\ud83e\udd2c <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/44m24c60Ux\">https:\/\/t.co\/44m24c60Ux<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Patrick Beverley (@patbev21) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/patbev21\/status\/1329978615350452225?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 21, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The NBA\u2019s reigning Sixth man has probably come in as a replacement to Dwight Howard, who also to everyone\u2019s surprise joined the Philadelphia Sixers on a 1 year deal. Howard entered free agency on the back of a championship winning campaign with the LA Lakers in 2019-20.<\/p>\n<p>Lakers star LeBron James also responded to Dennis Schroder and Montrezl Harrell joining the current champions on his Instagram story.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KingJames?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@KingJames<\/a> reacts to the Lakers dealing for Montrezl Harrell and Dennis Schroder \ud83d\udc40 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8QIXFp1IHR\">pic.twitter.com\/8QIXFp1IHR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ESPN (@espn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/espn\/status\/1330012722054959104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 21, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The current champions will go into the upcoming season that starts on December 22 with a lot of firepower on the bench.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Lakers have secured the signing of Ex-Clippers forward\/center Montrezl Harrell on a two year contract, according to\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":38263,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1073,1072,1071,826],"class_list":["post-17519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","tag-lebron-james","tag-los-angeles-clippers","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-nba"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}