{"id":10391,"date":"2025-02-08T18:07:30","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T18:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/lebron-james-excited-by-special-luka-doncic-link-up-at-la-lakers\/"},"modified":"2025-02-08T18:07:30","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T18:07:30","slug":"lebron-james-excited-by-special-luka-doncic-link-up-at-la-lakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/lebron-james-excited-by-special-luka-doncic-link-up-at-la-lakers\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James excited by &#8216;special&#8217; Luka Doncic link up at LA Lakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">James was speaking shortly after the Lakers&#8217; 122-97 win against the LA Clippers on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">James, a four-time NBA Most Valuable Player (MVP) winner, hit 26 points, nine assists and eight rebounds as the Lakers strolled to victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Doncic, who has had a calf injury since December, watched on from the side of the court alongside his new team-mates. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking before the game, Doncic expressed his shock at his move to the Lakers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You can imagine how surprised I was,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I had to check if it was April 1. I didn&#8217;t really believe it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Lakers expect Doncic to make his debut later this month. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/basketball\/articles\/c5yv8klk0evo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James was speaking shortly after the Lakers&#8217; 122-97 win against the LA Clippers on Tuesday night. James, a four-time NBA Most Valuable Player (MVP) winner, hit 26 points, nine assists and eight rebounds as the Lakers strolled to victory. Doncic, who has had a calf injury since December, watched on from the side of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10393,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10391\/revisions\/10393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}