{"id":336144,"date":"2025-12-09T01:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T01:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/336144\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T01:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T01:53:08","slug":"luka-doncic-reflects-on-second-childs-birth-after-lakers-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/336144\/","title":{"rendered":"Luka Doncic reflects on second child&#8217;s birth after Lakers win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"2876e98b-b9bc-2920-4319-46e6943f8be4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/lal\/los-angeles-lakers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3945274\/luka-doncic\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luka Doncic<\/a>&#8216;s return to the hardwood after being in his hometown for a special occasion couldn&#8217;t have been any better.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/47221448\/lakers-luka-doncic-announces-birth-second-daughter\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/r1580261_683x683_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/47244141\/lebron-james-10-straight-points-fourth-pace-lakers-win\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/r1586618_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1 Related<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles defeated the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"ca1685ed-b799-53e4-7924-e58ea6eb8f3a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/phi\/philadelphia-76ers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia 76ers<\/a> on the road Sunday evening, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/game\/_\/gameId\/401810217\/lakers-76ers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">112-108<\/a>, where Doncic led the Lakers with a triple-double &#8212; 31 points, 15 rebounds and 11 assists.<\/p>\n<p>Doncic missed the Lakers&#8217; previous two games &#8212; against the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"5a9c33b8-63fd-ff34-a833-925fe89320a6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/tor\/toronto-raptors\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Raptors<\/a> and <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"2ca761df-5f60-b2e9-22ed-e099c46d889b\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/bos\/boston-celtics\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Celtics<\/a> &#8212; to travel home to Slovenia to be with his fianc\u00e9e, Anamaria Goltes, for their child&#8217;s birth. He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/47221448\/lakers-luka-doncic-announces-birth-second-daughter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced the birth of his second child<\/a> on social media Saturday. They also have a 2-year-old daughter, Gabriela.<\/p>\n<p>After the game, Doncic, 26, reflected on his new daughter, Olivia, and what it means to be a parent of two.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;They&#8217;re going to make my life hell, for sure. I&#8217;m going to be their security after I retire.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Luka had jokes about the birth of his second daughter \ud83d\ude02 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kwWNod7YHV\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/kwWNod7YHV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA (@NBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA\/status\/1997887048003534985?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 8, 2025<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I mean it&#8217;s just the best thing in the world,&#8221; Doncic told reporters. &#8220;Obviously two girls, they&#8217;re going to make my life hell for sure. I know that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Doncic also joked about his post-retirement plans that&#8217;ll demand protecting his two daughters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m going to be their security after I retire,&#8221; Doncic quipped. &#8220;But all jokes aside, it&#8217;s the best thing in the world, and I&#8217;m just blessed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Lakers guard is currently leading the league in scoring, averaging 35 points per game, complemented by 9.2 rebounds and 9.1 assists per game.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Lakers guard Luka Doncic&#8216;s return to the hardwood after being in his hometown for a special&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-336144","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336144","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=336144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}