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The Lakers signed the former Rockets backcourt, and his performance during the summer league is simply a cancer?

3:02am, 30 September 2025【Basketball】

The Los Angeles Lakers officially announced that the team has signed forward player Anton Watson and backcourt player Nate Williams Jr. In order to free up places for the signing of the two players, the Lakers cut off the striker Tavion Jones, who had just signed and Eric Dixon, who had signed after this year's draft.

Williams was born in February 1999 and is 26 years old, 196cm tall and weighs 92kg. He is the undraft in the 2022 NBA Draft. In the NBA, Williams played for the Portland Trail Blazers and the Houston Rockets. He played 47 games in the NBA regular season, averaging 8.6 minutes per game, averaging 3.9 points, 1.1 rebounds, 0.6 assists, 0.3 steals, and 0.1 blocks. He also had 0.5 turnovers and 0.8 fouls. He shot 51.7%, three-point shooting percentage 28.2%, and free throw shooting percentage 58.3%. Williams' NBA play time is relatively limited, and his overall performance is also relatively average. He scored some good data during the Trail Blazers, but this is actually closely related to the fact that the Trail Blazers were in the "bad" stage at that time.

In the NBA regular season last season, Williams played 20 games for the Rockets in 82 games, averaging 7.3 minutes per game, averaging 3.2 points, 0.7 rebounds, 0.5 assists, 0.4 steals and 0.2 blocks, and 0.7 turnovers and 0.8 fouls. He shot 43.5%, three-point shooting percentage 23.1%, and free throw shooting percentage 62.5%. In the playoffs, Williams only played 3 times in total. Due to his playing time, he could not perform well. In the NBA Development League last season, Williams played 21 times for the Rockets' subordinate team Rio Grand Canyon Vipers, with averaging 31 minutes per game, with averaging 19.3 points, 3.9 rebounds, 3.3 assists, 1.7 steals and 0.7 blocks, and 2.4 turnovers and 2.7 fouls. His shooting percentage was 50.5%, his three-point shooting percentage was 34.9%, and his free throw shooting percentage was 83.3%.

Williams' overall performance last season was relatively average. He did perform in the NBA Development League, but he still couldn't prove his strength in the NBA. The most important thing is that Williams' performance during the NBA summer league was a mess, which was simply a cancer on the court. He was also directly cut by the Rockets in the summer league. Williams is also a player with relatively comprehensive personal abilities. However, the problem is that Williams has been with the Rockets for two years, and his playing style has not improved at all. His ball quotient and game reading ability on the court is very bad. He still relies on his physical talent and athletic ability to do it on the court, which seems a bit bad. I don’t know how the situation will develop next. Will the Lakers’ NBA Development League team, the South Bay Lakers, get Williams’ NBA Development League ownership through trading in the next time? Which team will he go to to play in the new season?