{"id":309941,"date":"2025-11-26T12:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T12:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/309941\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T12:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T12:46:07","slug":"luka-doncic-rips-lakers-nba-cup-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/309941\/","title":{"rendered":"Luka Doncic rips Lakers\u2019 NBA Cup court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-facilities \">Lakers G\/F Luka Doncic \u201cwas not pleased by the special NBA Cup\u201d court at Crypto.com Arena, calling it \u201cslippery\u201d and \u201cdangerous.\u201d Doncic, after praising the tournament\u2019s format, said, \u201cAdjust the courts, please. It\u2019s just slippery. It\u2019s dangerous. &#8230; I slipped a lot of times. You could see a lot of players slipped. That\u2019s dangerous, man.\u201d The game was the Lakers\u2019 first NBA Cup game at home after starting group play with two road games. Doncic said he \u201ccouldn\u2019t remember whether the courts in New Orleans and Memphis were more slippery than normal.\u201d Complaints about the special courts \u201care not new.\u201d Celtics F Jaylen Brown said he \u201cinjured his groin\u201d while playing on the Raptors\u2019 NBA Cup court in 2023, and other players \u201chave weighed in on the dangers of playing on unworn hardwood\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/lakers-luka-doncic-4b8f08402d32718ee5a293c4c275d15e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">AP, 11\/25<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lakers G\/F Luka Doncic \u201cwas not pleased by the special NBA Cup\u201d court at Crypto.com Arena, calling it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,726,590,85],"class_list":["post-309941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309941","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=309941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}