{"id":1050076,"date":"2026-09-08T03:03:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T03:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1050076\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T03:03:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T03:03:12","slug":"luka-doncics-jab-at-annoying-lakers-teammate-speaks-volumes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1050076\/","title":{"rendered":"Luka Don\u010di\u0107\u2019s jab at ‘annoying\u2019 Lakers teammate speaks volumes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Basketball fans know how important chemistry is when producing a winning on-court product.<\/p>\n

Fortunately for Lakers fans, there\u2019s a ton of chemistry between their two biggest stars \u2014 even if it manifests in unique ways<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Luka Doncic of the Los Angeles Lakers reacts on the floor during the first quarter of a game against the Brooklyn Nets at Barclays Center on Monday, March 10, 2025. Charles Wenzelberg\/New York Post<\/p>\n

Luka Don\u010di\u0107\u2019s and Austin Reaves\u2019 friendship has blossomed<\/a> over the past few seasons, as the two are now quite close. And this closeness was shown in a hilarious way when Don\u010di\u0107 was asked to describe Reaves with one word in a recent interview.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnnoying,\u201d Don\u010di\u0107 said while staring dead at the camera, per the Lakers\u2019 X account<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Luka Doncic calling his Los Angeles Lakers teammate Austin Reaves \u201cannoying\u201d in an interview. (X\/@Lakers).<\/p>\n

Don\u010di\u0107 is just joking around, of course. At least, joking in the way that two friends who love to jab and tease each other constantly do. <\/p>\n

That fact that Don\u010di\u0107 and Reaves have such a solid bond bodes well for the Lakers\u2019 chemistry, as does the trip that Los Angeles\u2019 roster took to Slovenia<\/a> last month. <\/p>\n

Of course, this chemistry doesn\u2019t guarantee that the Lakers will win games when the upcoming season starts. But if the team struggles, it doesn\u2019t look like a fractured locker room will be the root cause.<\/p>\n

Luka Doncic and Austin Reaves of the Los Angeles Lakers hold hands during a timeout in the second half of a game against the Chicago Bulls at Crypto.com Arena on March 12, 2026, in Los Angeles, California. Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Basketball fans know how important chemistry is when producing a winning on-court product. Fortunately for Lakers fans, there\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1050077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[40],"tags":[17378,276,3141,3365,1260,62,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-1050076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-austin-reaves","tag-california","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-luka-doncic","tag-nba","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117233202222103781","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1050076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1050077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1050076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1050076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1050076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}