{"id":13109,"date":"2025-04-13T12:53:47","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T12:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/luka-doncic-hits-45-points-on-emotional-return-to-dallas-mavericks-as-lakers-clinch-play-off-spot\/"},"modified":"2025-04-13T12:53:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T12:53:47","slug":"luka-doncic-hits-45-points-on-emotional-return-to-dallas-mavericks-as-lakers-clinch-play-off-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/luka-doncic-hits-45-points-on-emotional-return-to-dallas-mavericks-as-lakers-clinch-play-off-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"Luka Doncic hits 45 points on emotional return to Dallas Mavericks as Lakers clinch play-off spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Everybody saw me, the way I reacted to the video,&#8221; Doncic told ESPN.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;All these fans, I really appreciate it, man. All the team-mates I had, everybody had my back. I&#8217;m just happy. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I love these fans, I love this city, but it&#8217;s time to move on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">LeBron James, 40, hit 27 points, including 13 in the final quarter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The win means the Lakers are guaranteed a top-six seed in the Western Conference play-offs, and they can seal the third-seed spot with a win in either of their two remaining matches.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/basketball\/articles\/c8077977gyko\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Everybody saw me, the way I reacted to the video,&#8221; Doncic told ESPN. &#8220;All these fans, I really appreciate it, man. All the team-mates I had, everybody had my back. I&#8217;m just happy. &#8220;I love these fans, I love this city, but it&#8217;s time to move on.&#8221; LeBron James, 40, hit 27 points, including 13 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13109","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\/13109","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=13109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13111,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13109\/revisions\/13111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}