Luka Dončić and the Lakers visited the court he grew up playing on in Slovenia
Can you imagine having to play pickup against 15 year old Luka
I think you need to lower that number.
He was pro at 15 already
Can you imagine having to play pickup against 5 year old Luka
He was too good at 5 already
Can you imagine having to play pickup against 4 year old Luka
Can you imagine playing pickup against Luka while he was still in the womb?
In his father’s sack
His pops was a basketball player, too, so not too crazy to imagine getting crossed up by his talented ballsack
I had coworker who was playing with his father in highschool. Let’s just say he used his sack on daily bases 😄
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Can you imagine being that old lady and getting her lulu lemon fanny pack signed but the great Lucas Donald III WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE
Saša just swatting his shots until he started getting around him.
i think he left Ljubljana for Madrid at 13 and joined their pro team at 15
It’s like playing chess against 15 year old Magnus Carlsen.
I could only imagine the most FFS moment in chess would be competing in some tournament and your opponent sits down across from you and is like 9. You bout to be the chess equivalent of BBQ chicken
I don’t think he still play pickup during that time.
He moved to Madrid when he’s 13yo.
It’s safe to say be play pickup there when he was 10. Imagine a 10yo cooking those teenagers.
I’m slovenian and I have a friend who did play with 10/11/12 years old Luka, if I’m not mistaken my friend is 4 years older and he said there was this kid who was just light years ahead of everyone destroying every game and anyone knew Luka was gonna be a star one day
Goran dragic knew when he was 17 years old.
probably way earlier than that.
Luka already won the euro with Dragic at 18 and was already a star for real at 17.
He was a prodigy and the youngest ever player to debut for real madrid.
Yeah, Luka was “good” from a young age like many if not most NBA players. There’s being good enough to be a pro as a teenager and then there’s winning the Euroleague MVP at 19 years old. It’s a completely different level. It was complete incompetence that he wasn’t the top pick of the draft.
That combined with his size and passing/dribbling ability how many 6’8 players are moving like that, almost none.
The media/ESPN got it wrong as usual and I believe with guys like Stephen A Smith that anti Euro sentiment played into it
There was this documentary before he got into NBA. He played there before he moved to Madrid at 13. So around 10/11/12. The guys he played were older and they didn’t even knew his name they called him “the little one” because he stayed there playing pickup until sundown or his mom calls to come home. He just always loved basketball for the sake of just wanting to play it.
Reminds me of Larry somehow
regular 15 year olds that are good enough to make varsity are cooking their whole city. 15 year old Luka would be looking like the goat in any pick up game.
15 year old Luka was playing pro in Europe - 17 year old Luka was an MVP level player lol
Pretty sure 10 year old Luka slimes out most adults
He played there when he was like 10/11/12. He moved to Spain by 13.
Imagine thinking you picked up an easy game, then a bearded 6’7” demigod starts running pick-and-rolls.
think he started for Real Madrid at 15
Can you imagine the non-stop chatter with himself when they call their own fouls. No ref so he’s constantly asking himself for and-1’s and showing himself the foul on his hand and acting like a whiny bitch.
I would cook his ass like bbq then eat that shit yum yum style
okay grandpa, let’s get you to bed
He was playing at Real Madrid at 15 brother 😂
I believe you man
What the fuck is up with these weird ass comments
It’s like these people have never been on a team before or even gone outsife
Have you been on a company outing? Most people know you kind of have to suck up to the boss and go with whatever he wants to do.
Similar dynamics here where everyone goes along with Luka
You are far too cynical.
I venture you have 0 friends or family from a different place.
When they visit, you show them where you grew up. They also want to see those places.
Luka is a basketball player. His teammates want to see where he played basketball.
what’s with the obsession with different place
Your reading comprehension is pathetic.
A different place means different city, state, or country.
Yes, I know what difference place means. Why are you so obsessed with that as a status marker?
Status marker?
Re-read my original comment. My point was that showing your out-of-town friends and family where you grew up is an extremely common behavior.
The fact that you cannot comprehend that idea indicates you are naive or obtuse.
Maybe its just me but I do not want to visit my coworker’s playground cause it has sentimental value to him.
If you’re taking your friends to like, the McDonalds that you used to eat at as a kid, that’s some serious Main Character Syndrome you got there. They want to see the empire state building, not your elementary school.
It’s a basketball court, they play basketball for a living. Not that complicated it’s just a photo opportunity and he can meet some fans there with the team
It is just you and that’s the problem. You’re incapable of understanding that other people are happy to do things you wouldn’t want to do.
That is a problem that you have and I doubt you’ll ever fix it.
Do you know how many people travel to where Larry bird grew up playing basketball? Like at some point you have to realize that your mindset is broken.
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Now imagine a white person says that if they go to a foreign country let’s say Japan… You would call them racist right?
not the same thing, nice try though
It actually is this the same thing.
Lots of Slovenians in Slovenia… not shocking.
Lots of Japanese in Japan.. not shocking.
It is beyond strange and ignorant of you to say something like that
This is such a dumb response it’s honestly impressive
people who promote equality always act like everybody starts from same conditions
Are you baiting or just fucking stupid? Japan is the 4th richest country on the planet, far wealthier than Slovenia so this idiotic graphic means nothing and is so myopically American it’s mind boggling. Even your “uncomfortable around people who look like this” as if Slovenia isn’t one of the safest countries in the world is crazy too, literally the same shit people would say about black neighborhoods you repeat verbatim without a shred of irony. Your entire point is you don’t like people who look a certain way so you want their country to be colonized by people who don’t look like them so that they stop looking that way. You’re a vile racist and it’s time we stop normalizing this shit with flawed outdated “original sin” tier American propaganda that has nothing to do with 99.9% of the fucking world.
Germany got bombed too but Japan despite being axis powers are excused cause they’re not pale skinned, this shit is just disgusting.
I don’t think being bombed would change anything about this…what point are you making here?
Nobody has an “excuse” or “obligation” to be mono cultural or multicultural beyond natural circumstances. It literally could be as simple as the is a small amount of people of color who move there or have been there. It’s a relatively small country and whil it hasn’t been hit by nukes it has been affected by war and turbulence, just a simple google search focuses primarily on the world wars themselves. This is a weird hang up for what can be put up to circumstance and basic geographic circumstances. And even if the comparison isn’t Japan you will find countries of many types that are mono cultural of any culture….simply because that’s what history has allowed it too, just as equally as you’ll find countries which have retained one their culture through their own means.
Also, what convinces you that there has to be different skin colors to show a littany of different cultures? Even in America you cannot compare those of italian descent to those of Irish descent. That is in itself multiple cultures.
Japan is more homogeneous countries in the world. Only second after North Korea. That culture is thousand of years old and preserved very well.
Your comment is incredibly stupid and uninformed.
So we should what, order some people of colour online to drive up your forced diversity quota up? Different places around the world have differennt demographics, you absolute simpleton.
You are fuckin ignorant and racist.
If you hold different group to different standard, you don’t want equality, that’s just a fact 🤷🏽
Doin too much man
Japan also destabilized and invaded other countries in the years immediately before they got the nukes dropped on them.
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Okay you have gotta be bait account, only racist people actually use “Wypipo” or “Wipeepo” unironically when it comes to talking about black folks.
So you hold Slovenia to the same standard as America now? Slovenia is the one who nuked Japan? Dawg just stfu I promise you the more you speak the dumber you sound
no I’m comparing Slovenia to Japan. how do you miss such a simple point
I am missing your point, cause it makes no sense, just like everyone else commenting on your comments lol. Read the room
Yeah Japan fought with the Nazis, Slovenia fought against them. Compare that you cunt.
We, Slovenians never invaded or enslaved anyone. Actually we got invaded so ahut rge fuck up you racist cunt.
“BIPOC_Ally” and 1mo old account lmao
Hard to tell apart DSA from trolls
Why do people even bother engaging with this dude lmao ?
Do they need to? If so, go kidnap a random non white and throw them there, because apparently the town needs diversity to exist.
This is an outing with a professional basketball team headed centered around a well known and generally loved national athlete. And i’m pretty sure half of these guys haven’t even heard of Slovenia beyond it being a place where Luke comes from. I’d see no reason for that to be a factor. Maybe if it was some nobody ont heir team and they lived in a rural Southern town, i’d see it.
this was near the top and i didn’t expect any of the bullshit i read below. what the fuck is wrong with redditors lmao
Same lol…I was thinking “what comments”…*scrolled a bit….“oh, those ones”
Losers with failed lives mad at a harmless outing
You’re not kidding, they are bizarre
this place is the fucking worst
It’s every single Lakers thread. I swear to god, the Lakers bring out r/nba’s biggest weirdos
Rent free yep
Yeah just scrolled down and yea whatever. The comments are something else
I still don’t see them
Internet is dead already, you can made a “healthy” assumption that 7 out of 10 comments are made by bots.
Still looking for the comments in question
I think I see bronny James in the back taking notes diligently so he doesn’t get traded by Pelinka
Damn. That’s a nice court
The first shot of the grass on life support made me think it was going to be a rundown court
We’ve had the worst drought in decades (if not centuries) in Slovenia this summer hence the burnt grass and watering the lawns was highly discouraged or even outright banned in some parts of the country.
Don’t exaggerate with centuries.
its literally true you donut
You must be quite young. I remember previous one, so it`s literally not true.
take your pills man
:D. Yup, that`s the only solution you know. Mkey
poglej kake bedarije pises clovek ka ti pa naj recem? lahk bi te usmeri da si poglej povprecne temperature/padavine sam je zlo ocitno da te boli kurac za statistiko/dejstva? tko da ja, uzem svoje tablete pa bot tih
What statistics and facts? Which studies exactly did you examine and what period did they cover?
Grass is on life support because there was recently a severe drought.Most country startef to look like some savannah, sadly.
I thought the same thing.
if I remember correctly when Luka was on the mavs his foundation spent a bunch of money building and renovating courts in Slovenia and this was one of them
Twas just this court
And it’s partially why it is basically mavs colors
Ah…that…yeah that hurts…
Imagine how Luka must feel feeling seeing those colors. He probably picked them out thinking he’d make his legacy with the Mavericks, paint the city in the colors he’d be loyal to forever…
It was a nba 2k Collab
Its been renovated obviously
He looks slim
I hear Zion lost weight too, Simmons working on his jump shot as well.
He was slim last season
I don’t gain a lot of weight playing basketball but I definitely stay slimmer not doing it. Cardio keeps me slim. Everyone hurts themselves hooping. That’s when the weight hits.
Can you bots are capable of commenting anything different when you see their names, or does your brain only allow you to spew the same bs?
People have said he looks slim every single offseason for years
peak preseason
Had me in the first half
i’m not sure what’s weird about this can someone explain
There’s nothing weird about it, I think the weird comments are about some of the “fans”. Like one of them walked up to him and shoved the paper at him, focusing on her phone the whole time, and when he signed it, she didn’t say anything, just turned around and focused on the video she was taking. She never made eye contact with him or took time to enjoy a personal interaction. I think that’s weird to not be in the moment and to spend a once in a lifetime moment completely staring at your phone.
Also, I know a lot of players worry about how many “fans” are just there to get autographs to resell.
the lady with the paper hangs around for a few and asks him for a selfie, gets her photo, and then says thanks.
Regardless, dudes hangin in his home country as the biggest guy in the world and casually walking around taking pics and autographing things at what’s not a sponsored or paid event. That’s pretty sick.
If you’d ever been to Spain during the mid 2000’s and early 2010’s, the Lakers were the biggest team in Spain and every basketball fan rocked a Lakers Pau jersey. Luka to Slovenia is 100x that. Kids are going to remember that forever.
Luka took the boyz on a field trip
Voluntold the boys
Free VIP European vacation to your team captains home country and you get to work on some hoops stuff as well. No one was Volentold. He even invited the two way guys.
Of course. Everyone loves Dear Leader and would be thrilled to make a pilgrimage to his childhood basketball court.
I get it. You are some Luka hating weirdo. You have done nothing but shit talk a team bonding trip paid for by Luka for his team to come hang out. The fact that you are trying to compare this to some North Korean bullshit is honestly disturbing. Are you really this sad?
lol it’s called a joke. Chill out man. Are laker fans really this humorless? It’s like when they call Mbappe the Dictator. No one is saying he’s literally Assad.
“It’s called a joke”. No one is laughing you weird ass troll. This shit is corny and you have made it your life mission to shit talk one little moment of this 5 day trip. He was excited to show his team where her grew up and from what I have seen they are all having a blast. The only person that seems to hate this is YOU.
Some of us are laughing. It’s honestly even more entertaining how upset yall are getting.
“My life mission” buddy I only saw this last night
The amount of people you have commented this weak ass shit to says that’s a lie. Wild how you have to try to spin your comment as a “joke” when no one goes along with it. 👍🏼 maybe your day will get better.
Are u ok bro
Maybe one day you’ll have enough money to get to visit the glorious nations of Slovenia
Luka looking so skinny I thought it was AR lol
There’s a post in the sub that’s like Austin or Luka? And youd think it’s AR till you see the tat sleeve
Same. Totally thought that was AR at first!
What’s with some of the comments here 😭
Jealousy
It’s called making funny jokes. Relax. Its just amusing when you see a bunch of grown millionaire athletes being forced to do group activities dictated by dear leader
Whole point of jokes if supposed to be humorous, and make actual sense. The Lakkkers comments were funny, but you have actual people in here misconstruing a what looks to be a simple teambuilding exercise. This would be no different then a team gathering at Jokic’s horse stable or maybe wher Giannis Grew up or where Shai was raised in Canada. Even more so if maybe the player in kind is someone who players might look up to and would think it’d be cool to see their origins, or maybe there’s an appeal to something as natural and free of the sterile nba environment as a blacktop. You could tie many reasons as to why a team would do this and why players would agree to it.
Rest of us find it humorous. It’s not that serious.
On company outings, everyone has to kind of suck up to the boss and do what he wants. It’s not that different here. It’s Lukas team. They’re not visiting Arkansas to see Austin Reeves childhood playground
If that’s the case then you guys gotta get better at jokes, you sound less like amused people and more like concern trolls.
People have different sense of humor. What can I say.
Their in Slovenia, not in Arkansas, if they were, they probably would, like how they probably would eat at his house if they were there.
I think its nice that luka had to look for jerseys to sign and people werent shoving him with things. Everyone waited their turn and nobody lingered
Waiting their turn, getting a picture/signature, saying thank you and going away. As much as I dislike the fanboy mentality, it was very respectful and noone (in this video) was harassing them and bugging them.
welcome to civilization
I love the various people going up to get random little scraps of paper autographed. You can tell he means a lot to his community.
According to some commentors, Wemby doing this with the spurs in Paris is team bonding but Luka taking the Lakers to Slovenia is modern day slavery lol
Wtf are some of these comments referring to him as a dictator.
“Dudes be hating on anything” ass comment section
We played a good basketball on this court back in the days.
He seems trimmed down
This is like in Ted Lasso when Roy takes Isaac McAdoo to his hometown courts to help him find the joy in soccer again
Wow wholesome
If funny how they’re walking in a straight line like a field trip
Wasn’t he playing pro at 16?
They were just trying to see if it had some magical properties
So weird that people just walk up to him snap a picture and then walk away. Don’t you want to say hi and actually talk to the guy? No, just want a pic for instagram
Reminds me of the annual work “vacation” I have to go on with co workers lol
Kod je ta iz pedr tosko?
who
everyday it makes more sense why lebron left lmao
Crackers in Toplice
Wtf lol
Overrated. European players are such ass
This guy really got fat on purpose to get traded from Dallas to LA.
I think people feel it’s weird because you really don’t see this. You usually just get like a week in Vegas or Miami with the team. A couple practices and then night life. This kind of seems like a 7th grade field trip.
lol, comparing Vegas to Slovenia🙄
Are you really rolling your eyes at my comment? Soft.
I am. Both 👍I mean, Las Vegas seems to be for the type of people who also like Dubai, etc. It’s a completely different vibe and type of place. Hence the eyeroll.
I wonder if it’s mainly a big marketing push. Blazers picked Yang for the Chinese market, feels like they’re converting Slovenia and surrounding area to be NBA/Lakers fans. It honestly feels like they’re evangelizing the city lol
Slovenias national tourism agency is one of Lukas personal sponsors I believe. So it could just be to push the country even without any NBA involvement.
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dat blonde chick towards the end…..
Oh yeah. She got ya boy feeling REAL nutty…
All this for a player with no ring or MVP lol
Guys seriously… this is weird. Its social media expanding… but it’s weird.
Totally normal
It is normal you weirdo. Timberwolves this off-season are in Paris and ruby is showing them similar shit. It’s almost like playing a sport with people you get to know them and wanna share your life with them. Shocking revelation for a basement dweller I know
lol I love the trend with these international superstars that the whole team has to go on hostage trips to their country once an off season 😂
imagine equating traveling the world to being a hostage
yeah, no one’s ever been dragged to remote eastern europe against their will
I just did 5 minutes of looking around Google Maps. Slovenia looks beautiful and it’s not even that remote. If anything the Cleveland cavaliers are the hostages, Ohio sucks
It’s a beautiful country yet they’re all forced to visit some random basketball court that dear leader played at once
Central Europe
Have you ever been to Slovenia?
Perfect showing of yank education
Yeah going to slovenia and plugging hot European women every night sounds like a real nightmare
Lmfao he got them hostage
This gets weirder by the day
What part of this is weird
Probably the fact that a chunk of their offseason that they’ve been voluntold to partake in is completely centered around a player who didn’t even play in the most important games last year. You think they’re spending any time in anyone else’s hometown?
It’s a free vacation in Europe with a bunch of gifts. Lots of teams do off season corny bonding shit.
Brotha it’s an offseason bonding trip. Does nuance mean nothing to you
Well Luka is paying for a lot of this. He’s the obvious star of their team.
He didn’t play because he was injured. You really think these guys were forced to go on a cool vacation playing basketball, golf, and eating at nice restaurants?
Redditors are so funny lol