Luka Don\u010di\u0107 didn’t disappoint in his preseason debut on Tuesday night. <\/p>\n
While the Los Angeles Lakers suffered a 113-104 loss to the Phoenix Suns, Don\u010di\u0107 finished with 25 points in just 22 minutes of action. <\/p>\n
He also recorded seven rebounds and four assists, shooting 7-of-15 from the field as well as 4-of-8 from three-point territory. While it’s important not to put too much stock into the plus-minus of a single preseason game, it’s still worth noting that the Lakers outscored the Suns by 11 points with Don\u010di\u0107 on the floor.<\/p>\n
Despite the defeat, fans were amazed with his performance.<\/p>\n
Austin Reaves also looked sharp offensively, finishing with 25 points on 8-of-16 shooting while pulling down four rebounds and dishing out two assists. <\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Bronny James recorded seven points, three rebounds, two assists, one steal and one block in 22 minutes of action. James shot 3-of-8 from the field. <\/p>\n
As for Don\u010di\u0107, expectations are high ahead of his first full season as a member of the Lakers. <\/p>\n
The five-time All-Star is coming off an eventful summer in which he excelled at EuroBasket 2025 with Slovenia, averaging 34.7 points, 8.6 rebounds, 7.1 assists and 2.7 steals per game on 45.8\/32.1\/87.8 shooting splits. <\/p>\n
Los Angeles will open its 2025-26 regular season against the Golden State Warriors on Oct. 21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luka Don\u010di\u0107 didn’t disappoint in his preseason debut on Tuesday night. While the Los Angeles Lakers suffered a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-214404","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}