{"id":831808,"date":"2026-07-29T18:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T18:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/831808\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T18:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T18:29:08","slug":"luka-doncic-to-host-lakers-mini-camp-in-slovenia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/831808\/","title":{"rendered":"Luka Don\u010di\u0107 to host Lakers mini-camp in Slovenia"},"content":{"rendered":"

The offseason is a time to rest, reset, but also prepare and train for the year ahead. Luka Don\u010di\u0107 is already on that grind and posting his workouts on Instagram.<\/p>\n

This is a big year for Don\u010di\u0107. LeBron James is gone<\/a>, making Luka, without question, the Lakers\u2019 leader. This team will be a representation of him.<\/p>\n

While the start of the year is still months away, Luka wants to get to work as soon as possible.<\/p>\n

Dave McMenamin of ESPN reported on Wednesday that Don\u010di\u0107 will bring the entire roster to Slovenia for a four-day mini-camp in August.<\/p>\n

The Lakers clearly want to build their chemistry quickly.<\/p>\n

Don\u010di\u0107 running this should be music to Lakers fans\u2019 ears.<\/p>\n

It shows that Luka wants these guys around him and welcomes them to his birthplace, Ljubljana, Slovenia. None of this is required for Don\u010di\u0107 to do. His taking this initiative is exactly what you want from your team\u2019s top player. LeBron would often have a mini-camp in Vegas right before training camp, and now Luka is doing something similar, but in his own way.<\/p>\n

With so many new faces on the Lakers, the more time they can get together, the better. Hopefully, this mini-camp and then the official one sometime in September will create a scenario where the team can hit the ground running in October.<\/p>\n

This will likely be a fun and friendly team event. Luka seems to have caught the golf bug, just like his buddy Austin Reaves<\/a>, and has it as part of this four-day event. With that, along with some tourism mixed in, it sounds like a fun work trip.<\/p>\n

If, at the end of this, the team knows each other better and has built some rapport, then it\u2019ll be a success. Hopefully, this can become a new tradition and a way for Luka to cultivate the Lakers\u2019 culture under his leadership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The offseason is a time to rest, reset, but also prepare and train for the year ahead. Luka…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":831809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,38926,590,85],"class_list":["post-831808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-lakers-news","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831808","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=831808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/831809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}