{"id":496569,"date":"2026-05-12T15:22:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T13:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=496569"},"modified":"2026-05-12T15:22:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T13:22:24","slug":"lakers-reportedly-promised-luka-doncic-a-mavericks-like-roster-build","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/lakers-reportedly-promised-luka-doncic-a-mavericks-like-roster-build\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers reportedly promised Luka Doncic a Mavericks-like roster build"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1441\" data-end=\"1667\">The <strong data-start=\"1445\" data-end=\"1467\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/strong> reportedly promised <strong data-start=\"1488\" data-end=\"1503\">Luka Doncic<\/strong> a roster built to maximize his skill set. The reference point would be the <strong data-start=\"1581\" data-end=\"1606\">2024 Dallas Mavericks<\/strong>, who reached the NBA Finals with a balanced team around him.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1669\" data-end=\"1899\">During extension talks last summer, Doncic wanted clarity on the franchise\u2019s plans. The Lakers reportedly told him they intended to build a balanced roster featuring a lob-catching, rim-protecting big man and multiple 3&amp;D players.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1901\" data-end=\"2192\">One key piece already appears to be in place with <strong data-start=\"1951\" data-end=\"1968\">Austin Reaves<\/strong>, viewed as the long-term secondary playmaker next to Doncic. The Lakers expect Reaves to decline his 2026\/27 player option and sign a long-term deal, while Doncic has reportedly made clear he wants to keep playing with him.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2194\" data-end=\"2428\">Finding the right pick-and-roll big man and perimeter defensive pieces will require more work. Los Angeles could have more than $50 million in cap space this offseason to shape the roster around Doncic and, likely, a re-signed Reaves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Lakers reportedly promised Luka Doncic a roster built to maximize his skill set<\/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-496569","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\/496569","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=496569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496569\/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=496569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496569"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=496569"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=496569"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=496569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}