Dave McMenamin<\/a> about their growing bromance and detailed some aspects of their spirited rivalry, including Doncic admitting that he doesn’t want to test his teammate’s golf skills.<\/p>\n“I’m ducking him,” Doncic said. “I can’t golf.”<\/p>\n
Reaves, in turn, conceded that Doncic “is the favorite in foosball.” Even though he doesn’t watch football, he made a friendly wager that the Minnesota Vikings would defeat Doncic’s “beloved” Dallas Cowboys in Week 15.<\/p>\n
“I saw that we had — I don’t love saying this — many similarities in how we like to compete in all different things,” Reaves said. “Not just basketball. Whatever. Cards, bowling, darts \u2026 which he hasn’t beaten me at either.”<\/p>\n
Even when Doncic invited Reaves over to his place for a friendly dinner, more competition arose.<\/p>\n
“He was like, ‘Come over. We’re bowling,'” Reaves said.<\/p>\n
Upon his arrival, Reaves found Doncic with two of his friends, Lakers assistant coach Greg St. Jean and the team’s head video coordinator, Michael Wexler. They divided themselves into three-man teams and played multiple games.<\/p>\n
“But it all really came down to the 1-on-1 at the end,” Reaves said.<\/p>\n
However, the two guards have different memories of how the night played out from that point.<\/p>\n
“We bowled for, I think, maybe three games,” Reaves said. “And, yeah, I’m 3-0.”<\/p>\n
“I’m sure he said he won,” Doncic said when informed of Reaves’ answer.<\/p>\n
Doncic and Reaves will be putting their on-court chemistry on full display when the Lakers take on the Houston Rockets on Christmas Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It didn’t take long for Los Angeles Lakers stars Luka Doncic and Austin Reaves to develop a strong…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-369765","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369765","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=369765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}