Los Angeles Already Waiving Just-Signed Preseason Role Player

Your Los Angeles Lakers are making a flurry of moves on the eve of the 2023-24 NBA regular season. The club just been signing and quickly waiving several training camp additions, with an eye towards retaining them on LA's NBA G League team, the South Bay Lakers, as affiliate players.

Today, the club announced via its official Twitter/X account that it is cutting shooting guard Quinndary Weatherspoon, just one day after signing him.

The 6'3" vet out of Mississippi State has split his three NBA seasons thus far, from 2019-22, between the San Antonio Spurs and the Golden State Warriors. Across just 42 regular season contests, he holds modest averages of 2.1 points on .452/.188/.826 shooting splits, 0.8 rebounds, and 0.6 assists. 

During his most recent NBA season, 2021-22, he spent significantly more time with the Warriors' NBAGL affiliate, the Santa Cruz Warriors, than Golden State proper, given that he was on a two-way contract. With Santa Cruz, he averaged 25.3 points on a .523/.282/.887 slash line, 6.7 rebounds, 3.1 assists (against 3.7 turnovers), 2.1 steals and 0.7 blocks a night. He technically won an NBA championship with Golden State, though he didn't play a single minute in the postseason.

More recently, Weatherspoon spent the 2022-23 season with Chinese Basketball Association team the Tianjin Pioneers, and actually played a pair of NBA preseason games with a non-NBA team, Israeli club Maccabee Ra'anana.