{"id":896504,"date":"2026-10-27T15:48:33","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T15:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/896504\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T15:48:33","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T15:48:33","slug":"luka-doncic-received-advance-notice-of-lakers-sale-to-josh-kushner-and-bob-iger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/896504\/","title":{"rendered":"Luka Doncic received advance notice of Lakers sale to Josh Kushner and Bob Iger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"slk:Luka Doncic was the only person outside of the small circle of people close to Mark Walter, Josh Kushner and Bob Iger who had any inkling how the sports world was about to dramatically change before Aug. 12;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Luka Doncic was the only person outside of the small circle of people close to Mark Walter, Josh Kushner and Bob Iger who had any inkling how the sports world was about to dramatically change before Aug. 12&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/50287529\/los-angeles-lakers-sale-mark-walter-iger-kushner-luka\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Luka Doncic was the only person outside of the small circle of people close to Mark Walter, Josh Kushner and Bob Iger who had any inkling how the sports world was about to dramatically change before Aug. 12<\/a>. The last time he had gotten a text from Lara Beth Seager, his longtime manager, at an odd hour was in February 2025, when she reached him after midnight and told him he had been traded to the Lakers. This time, she had gotten a tip well after midnight at her home in Dallas that something big might be happening again. She texted Doncic, who was just waking up in Slovenia, alerting him to the possibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luka Doncic was the only person outside of the small circle of people close to Mark Walter, Josh&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":896505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-896504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896504","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=896504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/896505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}