{"id":172250,"date":"2025-12-07T16:16:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T16:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/172250\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T16:16:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T16:16:12","slug":"lakers-luka-doncic-announces-birth-of-second-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/172250\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers’ Luka Doncic announces birth of second daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dave McMenaminDec 7, 2025, 12:09 AM<\/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 Los Angeles Lakers<\/a>‘ last two games for “personal reasons,” had been away from the team 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 2-year-old daughter, Gabriela, together.<\/p>\n

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

The Lakers went 1-1 in Doncic’s absence. They have an off day Saturday after a back-to-back on Thursday and Friday in Toronto<\/a> and Boston.<\/p>\n

Doncic, 26, leads the NBA in scoring, 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

The Lakers are off to a 16-6 start and are No. 3 in the Western Conference standings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dave McMenaminDec 7, 2025, 12:09 AM CloseLakers and NBA reporter for ESPN. Covered the Lakers and NBA for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-172250","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-newzealand","10":"tag-nz","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}