{"id":73625,"date":"2025-08-16T22:03:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T22:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/73625\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T22:03:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T22:03:06","slug":"luka-doncic-leaves-slovenia-international-game-after-scary-collision-with-teammate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/73625\/","title":{"rendered":"Luka Don\u010di\u0107 Leaves Slovenia International Game After Scary Collision With Teammate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_swg06syze\">The NBA season is still about two months away, but its players and fans are already dealing with injury scares.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_jih5sodz1\">On Saturday, Lakers guard Luka Don\u010di\u0107 took the court for his native Slovenia in a EuroBasket warm-up game against Latvia. During the game, a Slovenian teammate was <a class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LakersNation\/status\/1956755659468521949\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">pushed into Don\u010di\u0107<\/a>, temporarily forcing him from the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_azzcfb3fz\">As Don\u010di\u0107 retreated to the locker room, reports <a class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DanWoikeSports\/status\/1956757025091998083\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">quickly indicated<\/a> that he was not seriously hurt, and veteran reporter Marc Stein later reported that Don\u010di\u0107 suffered a <a class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheSteinLine\/status\/1956794051925029045?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">right knee contusion<\/a>. Indeed, he returned to assist Slovenia&#8217;s comeback attempt against the Latvians, who took a 12-point lead into the final frame.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_xc98vre72\">EuroBasket begins Aug. 27; the Slovenians are grouped with Belgium, France, Iceland, Israel and Poland. Their first game is scheduled for Aug. 28 against Poland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_x02x3xpwr\">Los Angeles fans will likely monitor Don\u010di\u0107&#8217;s international feats with interest, as the five-time All-Star&#8217;s play stateside is the key to the Lakers&#8217; 2026 hopes\u2014especially with a <a class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nba\/luka-doncic-signs-huge-maximum-contract-extension-with-lakers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lucrative new contract<\/a> in his back pocket.<\/p>\n<p>More NBA on Sports Illustrated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NBA season is still about two months away, but its players and fans are already dealing with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-73625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73625","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=73625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}