{"id":357682,"date":"2025-08-19T20:55:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T20:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/357682\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T20:55:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T20:55:12","slug":"luka-doncic-drops-double-double-in-slovenias-win-over-great-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/357682\/","title":{"rendered":"Luka Doncic drops double-double in Slovenia&#8217;s win over Great Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Eurohoops team \/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/en\/eurobasket\/1858213\/luka-doncic-slovenia-great-britain-fiba-eurobasket-2025-friendly-game\/maillot:info@eurohops.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0info@eurohoops.net<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Being cleared to play following his scary exit against Latvia, Luka Doncic returned better than ever for Slovenia in the preparation game against Great Britain.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/basket\/los-angeles-lakers\/?lang=en\" title=\"Los Angeles Lakers\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"auto-link\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> phenomenon dropped a double-double of 28 points and 10 assists in his team\u2019s victory, leading his country to the 93-81 win.<\/p>\n<p>He was followed by Gregor Hrovat\u2019s 15 points and Klemen Prepelic\u2019s 12 points, 4 rebounds, and 4 assists.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>This was Slovenia\u2019s first preparation victory ahead of FIBA EuroBasket 2025 after four consecutive losses.<\/p>\n<p>On Great Britain\u2019s side, five players finished in double-digits: Tarik Philipp and Myles Hesson with 12 points each, Patrick Whelan and Carl Wheatle with 11, and Akwasi Yeboah with 10 points.<\/p>\n<p>Slovenia will play in Group D with Poland, France, Israel, Belgium, and Iceland; Great Britain was drawn into Group B with Finland, Germany, Lithuania, Sweden, and Montenegro.<\/p>\n<p>PHOTO CREDIT: FIBA<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/latest-news\/?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Read all the latest news from the basketball world<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Eurohoops team \/\u00a0info@eurohoops.net Being cleared to play following his scary exit against Latvia, Luka Doncic returned better&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-357682","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-northern-ireland","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115057427980698790","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}