{"id":497689,"date":"2026-05-21T08:35:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T06:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=497689"},"modified":"2026-05-21T08:35:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T06:35:40","slug":"luka-doncic-confirms-slovenia-absence-no-fiba-world-cup-qualifiers-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/luka-doncic-confirms-slovenia-absence-no-fiba-world-cup-qualifiers-this-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Luka Doncic confirms Slovenia absence: no FIBA World Cup qualifiers this summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"954\" data-end=\"1046\"><strong data-start=\"954\" data-end=\"969\">Luka Doncic<\/strong> will not play for <strong data-start=\"988\" data-end=\"1000\">Slovenia<\/strong> this summer in the FIBA World Cup qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1048\" data-end=\"1195\">According to <strong data-start=\"1061\" data-end=\"1075\">Marc Stein<\/strong>, sources close to the <strong data-start=\"1098\" data-end=\"1120\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/strong> star reiterated that nothing has changed from his recent public statement.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1197\" data-end=\"1374\">Doncic has decided to skip national team duties in order to spend as much of his offseason as possible with his two daughters, while he continues trying to secure joint custody.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1376\" data-end=\"1515\">The decision is therefore confirmed: the Lakers superstar will not be available for Slovenia during the summer World Cup qualifying window.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1517\" data-end=\"1631\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luka Doncic will not play for Slovenia this summer in the FIBA World Cup qualifiers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":457519,"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,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399,301,383],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-497689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","category-slovenia","category-world-cup"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - 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