{"id":102083,"date":"2025-08-28T01:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T01:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/102083\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T01:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T01:00:07","slug":"lakers-show-full-throated-support-of-luka-doncic-with-6200-mile-gesture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/102083\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers show full-throated support of Luka Doncic with 6,200-mile gesture"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lakers show full-throated support of Luka Doncic with 6,200-mile gesture<\/a> originally appeared on The Sporting News<\/a><\/p>\n

The Los Angeles Lakers are in complete support of everything Luka Doncic is doing right now.<\/p>\n

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Doncic made good on the fitness challenges that the Lakers\u2019 strength and conditioning staff gave him, so his participation in the European Basketball Championship<\/a>, the EuroBasket, if you will, is not only something they signed off on, it\u2019s something they made sure to fully embrace.<\/p>\n

As the Athletic\u2019s Dan Woike<\/a> writes, the franchise\u2019s main decision-makers traveled over 6,200 miles from Los Angeles, California, to Katowice, Poland, to watch the Slovenian star play internationally.<\/p>\n

\u201cLakers governor Jeanie Buss and president of basketball operations Rob Pelinka attended Luka Don\u010di\u0107 and the Slovenian national team\u2019s final practice before his EuroBasket tournament begins on Thursday in Poland, showing the organization\u2019s full support for Don\u010di\u0107\u2019s participation,\u201d Woike wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cDespite Don\u010di\u0107\u2019s knee-injury scare in Slovenia\u2019s warm-up schedule, Pelinka said he and Buss have no concerns about his continued participation with his national team now and in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The purple and gold are fully committing to Doncic as they transition out of the LeBron James era<\/a>. Trading Anthony Davis for James was the first step, and only consulting Luka before signing Marcus Smart and Deandre Ayton this offseason only solidified it.<\/p>\n

James has never been a No. 2 option in his career for longer than a series. Even ceding the leadership role to Dwyane Wade in the 2011 Finals against the Dallas Mavericks didn\u2019t last long. James was the undisputed No. 1 option for the rest of his Miami Heat tenure, then continued that into his return to the Cleveland Cavaliers and seven-year run in the City of Angels.<\/p>\n

LeBron is still a Laker, for at least another year. He\u2019s just not the Laker anymore.<\/p>\n

Who is? Well, Jeanie Buss and Rob Pelinka just traveled around the world for him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lakers show full-throated support of Luka Doncic with 6,200-mile gesture originally appeared on The Sporting News The Los…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[14727,49,48,2357,2695,58879,12882,26978,53963,58877,58878,58876,2327,1522,8231,12887,9472,8224,459,58880,31707,82],"class_list":["post-102083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-anthony-davis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-dan-woike","tag-deandre-ayton","tag-dwyane-wade","tag-eurobasket","tag-european-basketball-championship","tag-fitness-challenges","tag-jeanie-buss","tag-lebron-james","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-luka-doncic","tag-marcus-smart","tag-miami-heat","tag-nba","tag-participation","tag-rob-pelinka","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}