Ty Lue Declines to Comment on Lakers’ LeBron James Practicing at Old Clippers Gym<\/a><\/p>\n“Doncic is firmly in “prove it” territory when it comes to his health and conditioning. He also enters a season with some tricky vibes, as LeBron James’ diminished importance to the Lakers could create an uncomfortable dynamic,” Hughes adds. “James didn’t get an extension over the summer and has no experience as his team’s second most important player.”<\/p>\n
Doncic has to be one of the elite offensive players in the league next season if the Lakers are going to make a deeper run in the playoffs. They aren’t going to be strong on the defensive end, so they have to outscore teams.<\/p>\n
The Lakers believe that a full offseason in Los Angeles will make the difference for Doncic, especially when the playoffs roll around. They expect a big season from him now that his future is settled.<\/p>\n
For more news and notes on the Los Angeles Lakers, visit Los Angeles Lakers on SI<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luka Doncic has put himself in the best shape he’s ever been in before an NBA season. Now…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-108702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108702","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=108702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}