{"id":250970,"date":"2021-12-08T08:03:21","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T07:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=250970"},"modified":"2021-12-08T08:03:21","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T07:03:21","slug":"luka-doncic-says-he-has-to-trim-down-got-to-do-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/luka-doncic-says-he-has-to-trim-down-got-to-do-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Luka Doncic says he has &#8220;to trim down, got to do better&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Luka Doncic admits he has to lose weight.<br \/>\nAfter loss to the Nets, the Slovenian superstar talked about his weight issues.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/32818403\/dallas-mavericks-luka-doncic-admits-having-issue-weight-conditioning\">Per ESPN<\/a>, Doncic&#8217;s weight and conditioning were a frequent subject on the TNT broadcast of the Mavs&#8217; 102-99 loss to the Brooklyn Nets on Tuesday night. Analyst Reggie Miller, a Hall of Fame shooting guard, criticized Doncic, saying he was &#8220;plodding up and down the court&#8221; and &#8220;has got to trim down.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People are going to talk about it, yes or no,&#8221; said Doncic, who had 28 points, six rebounds and nine assists in the loss. &#8220;I know I&#8217;ve got to do better.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sources told ESPN that Doncic reported to training camp weighing more than 260 pounds (117kg)\u00a0 for the second consecutive year. His listed weight is 230 pounds (104kg).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I had a long summer,&#8221; said Doncic, who joined the Slovenian national team&#8217;s training camp days after Dallas was eliminated from the playoffs, leading the program to a fourth-place finish in its first Olympics. &#8220;I had the Olympics, took three weeks off, and I relaxed a little bit. Maybe too much. I&#8217;ve just got to get back on track.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A two-time first-team All-NBA selection, Doncic, 22, is averaging 25.5 points, 7.9 rebounds and 8.5 assists for the 11-12 Mavs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doncic reported to training camp weighing more than 260 pounds for the second consecutive year. His listed weight is 230 pounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":230544,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-250970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/08\/Doncic-1.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250970"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=250970"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=250970"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=250970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}