{"id":465368,"date":"2025-10-20T08:23:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T06:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=465368"},"modified":"2025-10-20T08:23:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T06:23:33","slug":"los-angeles-lakers-jaxson-hayes-pursuing-slovenian-passport-to-play-with-luka-doncic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/los-angeles-lakers-jaxson-hayes-pursuing-slovenian-passport-to-play-with-luka-doncic\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Lakers\u2019 Jaxson Hayes pursuing Slovenian passport to play with Luka Doncic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1265\" data-end=\"1534\">According to <strong data-start=\"1278\" data-end=\"1286\">ESPN<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"1288\" data-end=\"1304\">Jaxson Hayes<\/strong> is working to obtain a <strong data-start=\"1328\" data-end=\"1350\">Slovenian passport<\/strong> to represent <strong data-start=\"1364\" data-end=\"1376\">Slovenia<\/strong> alongside <strong data-start=\"1387\" data-end=\"1402\">Luka Doncic<\/strong> in international play. His agent, <strong data-start=\"1437\" data-end=\"1451\">Bill Duffy<\/strong>, first raised the idea even before Doncic\u2019s trade to the <strong data-start=\"1509\" data-end=\"1531\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1536\" data-end=\"1748\">Hayes, 25, said Slovenia allows one naturalized player, and he wants to fill that spot. Frustrated by <strong data-start=\"1638\" data-end=\"1658\">USA Basketball\u2019s<\/strong> closed selection process, he stated, \u201cI\u2019ll do whatever it takes to play on that stage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1750\" data-end=\"1968\">Coach <strong data-start=\"1756\" data-end=\"1769\">JJ Redick<\/strong> supports the move, calling it a valuable experience for both Hayes and Doncic. Slovenia\u2019s next major goal is the <strong data-start=\"1883\" data-end=\"1915\">2027 FIBA World Cup in Qatar<\/strong>, with qualifying rounds beginning later this year.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1030\" data-end=\"1096\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/46653211\/lakers-jaxson-hayes-pursuing-passport-play-slovenia-national-team-luka-doncic\"><em data-start=\"1030\" data-end=\"1060\">Source: ESPN \/ Dave McMenamin<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 7-footer hopes to join his Lakers teammate on the Slovenian national team<\/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-465368","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\/465368","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=465368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465368\/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=465368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465368"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=465368"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=465368"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=465368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}