{"id":313537,"date":"2025-11-29T02:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T02:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/313537\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T02:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T02:58:08","slug":"lakers-announce-full-starting-lineup-ahead-of-nba-cup-game-vs-mavericks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/313537\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers Announce Full Starting Lineup Ahead of NBA Cup Game vs Mavericks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-0\" class=\"mt-[18px] md:mt-0 mb-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6r\">The Los Angeles Lakers have unveiled their full first five ahead of their Emirates NBA Cup showdown against the Dallas Mavericks.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6u\">More news: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nba\/lakers\/onsi\/news\/former-nba-executive-urges-lakers-to-fire-rob-pelinka-next\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Former NBA Executive Urges Lakers to Fire Rob Pelinka Next<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6x\">Thanks to starting center Deandre Ayton&#8217;s announced return from a right calf contusion that cost him the Lakers&#8217; 135-118 Tuesday win against the LA Clippers (Jaxson Hayes started capably in his stead), Los Angeles will have access to head coach JJ Redick&#8217;s preferred starting unit once again.<\/p>\n<p>Lakers Starters Revealed<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-4\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"73\">With Ayton manning the middle, the Lakers will start five-time All-NBA First Team superstar point guard Luka Doncic (who was, until February, a Maverick) and shooting guard Austin Reaves in the backcourt, plus small forward Rui Hachimura and 21-time All-NBA power forward LeBron James in the frontcourt.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-5\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"76\">The Mavericks, meanwhile, will be bringing back the 10-time All-Star big man who served as the centerpiece of their misguided Doncic deal last season. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-6\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"79\">More news: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nba\/lakers\/onsi\/news\/former-all-star-confident-lakers-austin-reaves-will-land-massive-offseason-deal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Former All-Star Confident Lakers&#8217; Austin Reaves Will Land Massive Offseason Deal<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-7\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7c\">For Dallas, former 2020 Lakers champ Anthony Davis is set to return from a lingering calf injury, although it is <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheSteinLine\/status\/1994580612686987360\" rel=\"nofollow\">Marc Stein of The Stein Line<\/a> reports that Jason Kidd will be playing Davis on a minutes restriction.<\/p>\n<p>Latest Lakers News<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-10\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7l\">For more news and notes on the Los Angeles Lakers, visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nba\/lakers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Lakers on SI<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Lakers have unveiled their full first five ahead of their Emirates NBA Cup showdown against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-313537","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313537","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=313537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}