As the preseason and training camp start to wind down and the start of the regular season draws closer, NBA teams will start trimming down their rosters to get to the league maximum of 15 players. The Denver Nuggets made one of their roster cuts this week with the waiving of veteran wing Lonnie Walker IV, as per Brett Siegel of ClutchPoints.

Lonnie Walker had joined the Nuggets for training camp after spending last season out of the NBA. He played for Maccabi Tel Aviv in Israel last season, and his contract had an NBA out which he exercised this summer to join the Nuggets. What’s next for Walker is unknown at this time.

The No. 18 overall pick in the 2018 NBA Draft, Walker was spent the first four seasons of his career with the San Antonio Spurs. He became a valuable contributor off the bench, and averaged double figures in scoring his last two seasons with the organization.

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The former Miami (FL) standout last played in the NBA during the 2024-25 season. He initially began that year with Zalgiris Kaunas in Lithuania, but left the team in February 2025 to return to the NBA. He appeared in 20 games with the Sixers, including seven starts, at a little over 23 minutes per game. He averaged a career-best 12.4 points, 3.2 rebounds and 2.5 assists with splits of 42 percent shooting from the field, 35.4 percent shooting from the 3-point line and 80 percent shooting form the free-throw line.

Walker has also played for the Los Angeles Lakers and Brooklyn Nets during his seven years in the NBA thus far. He played a key role with the Lakers during their 2023 Western Conference Semifinal series against the Golden State Warriors.