{"id":449670,"date":"2025-07-04T13:28:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T11:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=449670"},"modified":"2025-07-04T13:28:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T11:28:14","slug":"donnie-nelson-joins-slovenia-as-special-adviser-reunites-with-doncic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/donnie-nelson-joins-slovenia-as-special-adviser-reunites-with-doncic\/","title":{"rendered":"Donnie Nelson joins Slovenia as special adviser, reunites with Doncic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1416\" data-end=\"1649\">Former Mavericks GM <strong data-start=\"1451\" data-end=\"1468\">Donnie Nelson<\/strong> has been appointed as a special adviser to the <strong data-start=\"1516\" data-end=\"1543\">Slovenian national team<\/strong>, reuniting with <strong data-start=\"1560\" data-end=\"1575\">Luka Doncic<\/strong>. The move strengthens Slovenia\u2019s preparation for the upcoming EuroBasket.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1651\" data-end=\"1815\">Nelson brings vast international experience, having worked with <strong data-start=\"1715\" data-end=\"1744\">Lithuania\u2019s national team<\/strong> in the past. His presence adds a seasoned voice to Slovenia\u2019s efforts.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1817\" data-end=\"1975\">Slovenia has also hired <strong data-start=\"1841\" data-end=\"1881\">Lakers assistant coach Greg St. Jean<\/strong> to the coaching staff. This ensures Doncic will have daily Lakers presence during the summer.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Former Mavericks general manager Donnie Nelson has been named as a special adviser to Slovenia&#8217;s national team &#8230; reuniting him with Luka Don\u010di\u0107.<\/p>\n<p>Nelson has a long history in the international game working with Lithuania\u2019s national team. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VRv9cMe1cw\">https:\/\/t.co\/VRv9cMe1cw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Marc Stein (@TheSteinLine) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheSteinLine\/status\/1941088859863036320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 4, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donnie Nelson has been named Slovenia\u2019s special adviser, reuniting with Luka Doncic ahead of EuroBasket<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":349641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[377,301],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-449670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurobasket","category-slovenia"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/09\/2023mcer09set341.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449670","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\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449670"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=449670"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=449670"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=449670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}