{"id":496516,"date":"2026-05-12T08:58:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T06:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=496516"},"modified":"2026-05-12T08:58:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T06:58:39","slug":"luka-doncic-to-skip-slovenia-duty-this-summer-for-family-reasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/luka-doncic-to-skip-slovenia-duty-this-summer-for-family-reasons\/","title":{"rendered":"Luka Doncic to skip Slovenia duty this summer for family reasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1139\" data-end=\"1336\"><strong data-start=\"1139\" data-end=\"1154\">Luka Doncic<\/strong> will not play for Slovenia\u2019s national team this summer in FIBA World Cup qualifying.<br data-start=\"1239\" data-end=\"1242\" \/>The <strong data-start=\"1246\" data-end=\"1268\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/strong> star announced his decision on Instagram, citing family priorities.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1338\" data-end=\"1501\">According to <strong data-start=\"1351\" data-end=\"1365\">Marc Stein<\/strong>, Doncic wants to spend as much offseason time as possible with his two daughters while he continues his effort to secure joint custody.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1503\" data-end=\"1712\">The decision means Doncic will step away from Slovenia\u2019s summer commitments, at least for this window. He has long been the face and leader of the national team, making the announcement especially significant.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1714\" data-end=\"1891\">For the Lakers guard, basketball will take a back seat to personal matters this offseason. Doncic will focus on his family instead of joining Slovenia for FIBA qualifying games.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Lakers&#8217; Luka Don\u010di\u0107 announced tonight via Instagram that he will not play for Slovenia&#8217;s national team this summer in FIBA World Cup qualifying to spend as much offseason time as possible with his two daughters as he continues to try to secure joint custody. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0D9DzKKJRM\">pic.twitter.com\/0D9DzKKJRM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Marc Stein (@TheSteinLine) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheSteinLine\/status\/2054076935404449876?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 12, 2026<\/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 will not play for Slovenia\u2019s national team this summer in FIBA World Cup qualifying<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":457549,"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":[92,75,102],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-496516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","category-slovenia","category-world-cup"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/08\/Luka-Doncic.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496516","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=496516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496516"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=496516"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=496516"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=496516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}