{"id":464578,"date":"2025-10-15T08:47:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T06:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=464578"},"modified":"2025-10-15T08:47:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T06:47:31","slug":"luka-doncic-shines-in-lakers-debut-but-suns-take-preseason-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/luka-doncic-shines-in-lakers-debut-but-suns-take-preseason-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Luka Doncic shines in Lakers debut, but Suns take preseason win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1280\" data-end=\"1536\">After months of anticipation, <strong data-start=\"1310\" data-end=\"1325\">Luka Doncic<\/strong> made his <strong data-start=\"1335\" data-end=\"1357\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/strong> debut, impressing despite the team\u2019s struggles. In <strong data-start=\"1409\" data-end=\"1420\">Phoenix<\/strong>, the Slovenian tallied <strong data-start=\"1444\" data-end=\"1484\">25 points, 7 rebounds, and 4 assists<\/strong> in 22 minutes, proving he\u2019s already in top shape.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1538\" data-end=\"1810\">The <strong data-start=\"1542\" data-end=\"1552\">Lakers<\/strong>, however, fell <strong data-start=\"1568\" data-end=\"1579\">113-104<\/strong> to the <strong data-start=\"1587\" data-end=\"1595\">Suns<\/strong>, who were missing several starters. With <strong data-start=\"1637\" data-end=\"1653\">LeBron James<\/strong> sidelined, coach <strong data-start=\"1671\" data-end=\"1684\">JJ Redick<\/strong>\u2019s lineup featuring <strong data-start=\"1704\" data-end=\"1720\">Marcus Smart<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"1722\" data-end=\"1738\">Jake LaRavia<\/strong>, and former Sun <strong data-start=\"1755\" data-end=\"1772\">Deandre Ayton<\/strong> failed to keep pace after halftime.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1812\" data-end=\"1976\">It marks the <strong data-start=\"1825\" data-end=\"1863\">third loss in four preseason games<\/strong> for L.A., raising concerns ahead of opening night. Doncic may be ready \u2014 but the Lakers still have work to do.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">25 points.<br \/>\n7 rebounds.<br \/>\n4 assists.<br \/>\n4 threes.<\/p>\n<p>Luka Don\u010di\u0107 SHINED in his <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Lakers?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Lakers<\/a> preseason debut! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/in0O2D8w8O\">pic.twitter.com\/in0O2D8w8O<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA (@NBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA\/status\/1978318216037351722?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 15, 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>The Slovenian star scores 25 points, yet Los Angeles suffers its third loss in four games<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":372083,"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":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-464578","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\/2024\/02\/Los-Angeles-Lakers.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464578","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=464578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464578"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=464578"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=464578"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=464578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}