{"id":43016,"date":"2025-07-28T16:29:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T16:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/43016\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T16:29:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T16:29:08","slug":"lakers-luka-doncic-weight-loss-lands-him-cover-of-mens-health-and-mavericks-fans-are-depressed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/43016\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers&#8217; Luka Doncic weight loss lands him cover of Men&#8217;s Health, and Mavericks fans are depressed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dallas Mavericks fans should probably shield their eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Luka Doncic, the generational superstar that Nico Harrison traded away in part due to concerns over his conditioning? Yeah, that guy is on the cover of Men&#8217;s Health magazine.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The headline: Luka Doncic Muscles Up.<\/p>\n<p>The sub-heading: The Skinny on the Lakers Star&#8217;s Summer Shread.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/los-angeles-lakers\/news\/lakers-luka-doncic-42-inch-vertical-leap-higher\/5f6f3cb50c840c8c2b66079f\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Luka Doncic opens up about 42-inch vertical leap;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Luka Doncic opens up about 42-inch vertical leap<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Luka clearly found some motivation to whip himself into tip-top physical shape this offseason.<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles Lakers will be the beneficiaries as their new face of the franchise leads them into an exciting era.<\/p>\n<p>The Mavs, well, at least they have Cooper Flagg. But the man who led them into the 2024 NBA Finals is now on a Western Conference rival, and he&#8217;s looking Herculean.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, that trade may indeed age very, very badly.<\/p>\n<p>MORE NBA NEWS:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas Mavericks fans should probably shield their eyes. Luka Doncic, the generational superstar that Nico Harrison traded away&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[761,760,6306,3014,34498,355,34499,99],"class_list":["post-43016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-cooper-flagg","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-lakers","tag-luka-doncic","tag-mens-health-magazine","tag-nba","tag-nico-harrison","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}