{"id":401687,"date":"2026-01-11T02:23:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T02:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/401687\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T02:23:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T02:23:11","slug":"7-time-nba-champion-rips-luka-doncic-after-poor-outing-against-milwaukee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/401687\/","title":{"rendered":"7-time NBA champion rips Luka Doncic after poor outing against Milwaukee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nba\/los-angeles-lakers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Los Angeles Lakers <\/a>star Luka Doncic is having an MVP-caliber season, without a doubt, but much of this resurgent season has pundits questioning (and even bashing) his polarizing style of play.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Doncic leads the league in free throw attempts per game (12.0) and is second in total attempts (348 in 29 games) behind Deni Avdija (386 in 39 games). What the 26-year-old superstar lacks in athleticism, he makes up for in baiting defenders into fouling him, but, at times, it detracts from productive offense.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Following the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nba\/los-angeles-lakers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lakers<\/a>\u2019 105-101 loss to the <a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nba\/milwaukee-bucks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Milwaukee Bucks<\/a> on Friday, where Doncic finished with 24 points on 8-of-25 shooting, seven-time NBA champion Robert Horry <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/lakersdailycom\/status\/2009896847222124885?s=61\" rel=\"nofollow\">ripped the franchise star<\/a> for his blatant foul baiting on the Spectrum Sportsnet postgame show.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0Giannis Antetokounmpo shares incredibly high praise for LeBron James<\/p>\n<p>What Horry said<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the things that upsets me about Luka is, his game is predicated on getting fouls called,\u201d Horry said. \u201cAnd if the refs don\u2019t give him the call, he starts hunting them more to try to prove the refs wrong.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re too good of a basketball player to hunt for fouls. Just take the shot. Nine times out of ten, you\u2019re going to make the shot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Doncic is leading the league in scoring, averaging 33.3 points, 8.0 rebounds and 8.8 assists per game. The counting stats are undeniable, but what is equally as indisputable is the process in which he is reaching those totals.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More NBA news:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Lakers star Luka Doncic is having an MVP-caliber season, without a doubt, but much of this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-401687","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\/401687","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=401687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}