{"id":328761,"date":"2025-12-06T13:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T13:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/328761\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T13:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T13:32:07","slug":"lakers-luka-doncic-announces-birth-of-second-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/328761\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers’ Luka Doncic announces birth of second daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dave McMenaminDec 6, 2025, 08:09 AM ET<\/p>\n

Close<\/a>Lakers and NBA reporter for ESPN.
\nCovered the Lakers and NBA for ESPNLosAngeles.com from 2009-14, the Cavaliers from 2014-18 for ESPN.com and the NBA for NBA.com from 2005-09.<\/p>\n

Luka Doncic<\/a> announced the birth of his second child — a daughter, Olivia — on Instagram on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n

Doncic, who missed the Lakers’ last two games for “personal reasons,” has been away from the Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> and back in his hometown of Ljubljana, Slovenia to be with his fianc\u00e9e, Anamaria Goltes, for the delivery, sources told ESPN.<\/p>\n

Doncic and Goltes also have a two-year old daughter, Gabriela, together.<\/p>\n

L.A. went 1-1 in his absence.<\/p>\n

Lakers coach JJ Redick said Friday before L.A.’s 126-105 loss to the Boston Celtics<\/a> that it’s possible Doncic will be back with the team as soon as Sunday in Philadelphia for their game against the 76ers.<\/p>\n

The Lakers have an off day Saturday after a back-to-back on Thursday and Friday in Toronto and Boston.<\/p>\n

The 26-year-old Doncic leads the NBA in scoring this season, averaging a career-best 35.3 points per game. He is also fourth in the league in assists (8.9), 19th in rebounds (8.9) and 11th in steals (1.6) per game.<\/p>\n

L.A. is off to a 16-6 start to the season and are No. 3 in the Western Conference standings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dave McMenaminDec 6, 2025, 08:09 AM ET CloseLakers and NBA reporter for ESPN. Covered the Lakers and NBA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-328761","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\/328761","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=328761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}