{"id":464049,"date":"2025-10-11T22:45:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T20:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=464049"},"modified":"2025-10-11T22:45:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T20:45:02","slug":"luka-doncic-on-lighter-workload-i-played-a-month-with-the-national-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/luka-doncic-on-lighter-workload-i-played-a-month-with-the-national-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Luka Doncic on lighter workload: \u201cI played a month with the national team\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"743\" data-end=\"970\">After a full first week of Lakers camp, <strong data-start=\"864\" data-end=\"879\">Luka Doncic<\/strong> explained the reason behind his <strong data-start=\"912\" data-end=\"932\">reduced workload<\/strong> heading into the preseason stretch.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"972\" data-end=\"1148\">\u201cI played one month with the national team. It\u2019s a long season ahead, so it\u2019s just about managing that,\u201d Doncic said, emphasizing rest and recovery before the regular season.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1150\" data-end=\"1302\">On <strong data-start=\"1153\" data-end=\"1170\">LeBron James\u2019<\/strong> absence due to <strong data-start=\"1186\" data-end=\"1198\">sciatica<\/strong>, Doncic added: \u201cIt\u2019s a big change. He\u2019s a great player, but our mentality needs to be <em data-start=\"1285\" data-end=\"1298\">next man up<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Luka Doncic explains why his workload was modified this week after being a full participant the first week of training camp: \u201cJust because I had [the] national team. Playing one month or something of basketball. Obviously it\u2019s a long season ahead, so just because of that\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cbqTIe8ZqA\">pic.twitter.com\/cbqTIe8ZqA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dave McMenamin (@mcten) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mcten\/status\/1977111320794415578?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 11, 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>Luka Doncic explained the reason behind his reduced workload heading into the preseason stretch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":464048,"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":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[187],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-464049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-11-alle-22.42.54.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464049","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=464049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464049"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=464049"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=464049"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=464049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}