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Luka Doncic Talks Elimination, Playing w_ LeBron, & His Lakers Future _ 2025 NBA Playoffs · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: Luca.
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  Speaker 2: First, just just quickly, how is your back and how
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  Speaker 2: did how did it kind of come through for the
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  Speaker 2: rest of the game after had that fall.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's not good at all, but you know,
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  Speaker 1: I tried to go.
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  Speaker 2: So that's it been a crazy couple of months. What
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  Speaker 2: stands out the most of you are right now is
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  Speaker 2: after a tough series loss.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, obviously sadness. I think I didn't play the
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  Speaker 1: way I should. I think it's a team we didn't
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  Speaker 1: play the way we could. But I think congratulations to Minnesota.
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  Speaker 1: They played high love a serious They were the better team, honestly.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you follow up the finals run last year with
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  Speaker 3: the first rounds of this year, and obviously where you
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  Speaker 3: were playing was out of your control. What's your thought
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  Speaker 3: process in terms of like what you need to do
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  Speaker 3: to reach your goal to win a championship, whether it'd
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  Speaker 3: be your individual contributions or what this team needs you
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  Speaker 3: to get towards that goal.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I mean there's obviously a lot of
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  Speaker 1: different things we can do. I can do. Uh, Obviously
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  Speaker 1: everybody got to get better, and you know we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: have long summer and we should focus on what we
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  Speaker 1: can improve as a team as individuals, so everybody.
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  Speaker 4: Luca, Uh, I know we're still three months away, but
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  Speaker 4: we probably won't get to talk to you before then.
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  Speaker 4: So August second, your extension eligible. Have you thought at
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  Speaker 4: all about your future in the summer?
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  Speaker 1: Uh, I didn't think it yet. You know, it's been
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  Speaker 1: not been focused on basketball, so uh, obviously this is
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  Speaker 1: the time, you know, no, to think about everything.
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  Speaker 5: Luca. Slightly along those lines, how was your time as
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  Speaker 5: a Laker big picture? After kind of shaking off the
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  Speaker 5: the shock, or as much of it as you were
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  Speaker 5: able to shake off from the trade, what did you
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  Speaker 5: think about your time here and can you see some
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  Speaker 5: sort of long term future for yourself in in this city,
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  Speaker 5: in this organization.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's been great. Uh honestly, you know, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: the way the fans accept to me, you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: been amazing.
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  Speaker 6: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: The way the community said to me has been amazing.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm really good at glad that I'm here. Uh
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  Speaker 1: had a great couple of months. Uh, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: still trying to learn uh about everything about the city,
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  Speaker 1: about the team, so uh, just trying to process everything.
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  Speaker 7: Luca, going through something like you did that was so huge,
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  Speaker 7: What do you think you've taken out of that experience
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  Speaker 7: mentally in terms of being tougher or anything else that you've.
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  Speaker 2: Taken out of that.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, Honestly, I don't know. Uh, it's just uh I'm mentally,
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  Speaker 1: uh kind of exhausted for everything that happened. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I know a lot of people won't believe me, but
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  Speaker 1: I am. So it's just I think now it's time
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  Speaker 1: to process everything, everything through it.
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  Speaker 6: Really, Uh, Luca, you have just a couple of months
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  Speaker 6: with the JJ as a coach, But in those months,
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  Speaker 6: what did you make of him as a coach and
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  Speaker 6: the rest of you guys were able to build upon
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  Speaker 6: after being teammates back in Dallas.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think he's a hell of a coach. Not
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  Speaker 1: many coaches do the stuff you did in his first year.
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  Speaker 1: He's a rookie year or whatever you want to say.
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  Speaker 1: It some really great brather. I got the coach by
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  Speaker 1: him just couple of months. You know, I feel sometimes
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  Speaker 1: like I'm back in Europe a little bit. Uh So,
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  Speaker 1: So I love it. You know, we had a we
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  Speaker 1: have a great bond. So it's been nothing but amazing
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  Speaker 1: with him as a coach.
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  Speaker 5: Luca, I asked Lebrown, this, but you know, when you
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  Speaker 5: get traded midseason, you you move to a situation where
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  Speaker 5: you're a dynamic ball handler. Austin Reeves dynamic ball handler.
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  Speaker 5: Lebron obviously is the best scorer in the history of
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  Speaker 5: the NBA. Where do you think you guys were at
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  Speaker 5: in the process of figuring out the best way to
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  Speaker 5: play with one another? And do you think think that
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  Speaker 5: at all was a factor? And in kind of the
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  Speaker 5: fourth quarter struggles in this series, I think you guys
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  Speaker 5: only averaged seventeen points in the fourth quarter at with
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  Speaker 5: with you know, some of the best closers in the NBA.
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  Speaker 1: I think it might be, it might be not. So
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  Speaker 1: how do we know? You know, it's tough uh to
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  Speaker 1: give that chemrash in the court without any practices.
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  Speaker 6: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm really excited to have the the preseason uh
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  Speaker 1: with those two, you know, so we can learn about
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  Speaker 1: a charger on court a lot. You know, I'll look
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  Speaker 1: back like with kyree uh when he got traded, uh
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  Speaker 1: to the maps. You know, we we we didn't really
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  Speaker 1: connact on the court, like we didn't really know each
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  Speaker 1: other each other's games. Obviously see the game, but you
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  Speaker 1: don't see in the game as teammates, so uh, we
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  Speaker 1: can see next year. We kind of just we had
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  Speaker 1: preseason together and it was it was just amazing. And
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  Speaker 1: that's how I look at it, you know, and stuff
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  Speaker 1: not having practices and that stuff. Uh, but I'm excited
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  Speaker 1: about the preseason having together and learning about each other
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  Speaker 1: in press.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, grandy synthesis or present.
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  Speaker 1: Another appression, shoulder represent you know, should Lakers? Hey, Lukas.
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  Speaker 3: This is obviously the toughest season of your career. Through
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  Speaker 3: the shock, through the criticism, through the narratives, through it all,
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  Speaker 3: what did you learn about yourself?
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  Speaker 1: Don't I don't know what I learned well myself, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Like I said, you know, I think now it's going
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  Speaker 1: to be time to process everything, you know, just emotionally,
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  Speaker 1: just going through it all looking back. So I'll let
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  Speaker 1: you know in the preseason where I learned by myself.
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  Speaker 7: Look, I wanted to zoom in kind of on this
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  Speaker 7: actual game. You scored thirteen points in that third quarter,
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  Speaker 7: kind of helped propel that run that gave the team
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  Speaker 7: a second chance here to win the game. What did
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  Speaker 7: you see out there that you were able to take
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  Speaker 7: advantage of during that period?
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  Speaker 1: I think we're just you know, defending ball. Then we
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  Speaker 1: played with a lot of pace, so I just think
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  Speaker 1: of that, you know, we're sharing the ball, well, getting
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  Speaker 1: everybody involved. So I think it just that got us
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  Speaker 1: that spark.
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  Speaker 6: Thanks okay, thank you,