BasketNews Doncic and his business manager, Lara Beth, first took the Lakers to the Ljubljana Maternity Hospital, where the players met employees, took photos, signed autographs, and visited the wards to greet mothers with newborn babies.
Always a good day when you get to take the bros to meet the babies
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Any baby but his own
Ant disagrees.
This is gonna end up being another Yamal and Messi situation 20 years down the line I can already tell.
One of those kids is gonna be a superstar
One of them? Luka singlehandedly secured a whole golden generation for Slovenia
Back-to-back-to-back golden medals for the Ljubljana Babies
Messi-Yamal situation refers to the fact that Messi did a random photoshoot with a random baby in the beggining of his career and 17 years later that baby is a superstar for Spain, now playing for the same club Messi played for.
What youre refferencing is more akin to Ronaldo and the entire Portugal national team growing up watching him play and probably picking up football in general because of him.
I’m aware of the Messi-Yamal situation. I’m from Brazil, jajhaha
I was just picturing the Lakers team literally bathing 100+ Slovenian babies and passing their powers to them, like people say Messi did with Lamine
Fun idea for a script, a superteam of blessed babies dunking on pro teams
I think Messi was already a superstar in late 2007.
He was literally 3rd place on Ballon D’or voting that year.
It was early in Messi’s career but he was already at the same level that Lamine is currently at IMO
Yeah, my bad, my knowledge of pre 2010’s football is not the best. I think I only knew Kaka, David Villa, Messi, Ronaldo and Petr Čech at the time lmao
Lamine hasn’t even reached near Messi’s 07 level yet. I lowkey feel like Yamal is gonna peak early in his career. The World Cup especially didn’t look too great for him imo
just based on individual performance and team performance 2023-2026 Lamine is definitely comparable to 2005-2007 Messi.
He’s not close to 2009 messi (which is his first prime year) but Lamine finished 2nd in ballon dor last year and lead barcelona to back to back la liga titles while had a great euro in 2024 as well (4 assists for a 16⁄17 year old).
He was recovering from injury this past world cup but it shouldn’t be a knock on him just like nobody knocked on messi for being injured for the 05/06 champions league campaign.
uh you maybe should want to look at some mock drafts for 2027. Slovenia has a top 5 prospect who will go #1 if he can fix his shot mechanics.
He doesnt have a baby picture with Luka tho
!remindme 18 years
Why does Luka sound like a mob boss here
The Don is a dangerous man
They didn’t call him The Don for no reason.
Well basically he is, if he wants to, or needs to. In 5-10 years, he will be the richest person in Slovenia.
$198.2 million in on-court NBA salary through his first eight seasons. God knows how much money he has via his investments, stock market portfolio, etc.
The richest person in Slovenia has 11 billion euro, so Doncic has a ways to go lol
Noone in Slovenia has 11b, it’s top 100 combined with 11b. Luka is 25th richest slovenian with approx. 130 mil
No, he will not accumulate another 11 billion euro in the next 5-10 years lol
Of course I’ll sign your baby.
Awful hostage situation the Lakers roster is in, how dare Luka /s
Why is Luka taking them to a maternity ward? Newborn babies and women about to birth a child have no interest in NBA players.
This little trip the Lakers took is getting a lot more attention then I thought it would lol
Lakers are very popular worldwide.
The Lakers PR team is next level
The Lakers are popular*
the nba pr department and their g4y mods are pushing this so you forget about balmer, walter, ishiba getting margined called, dundon trying to force relocation in Portland, all the gambling bs etc
the nba is a feel good place where amazing happens ™
wait why are they gay?
shutting down the message board during the finals has got to be up there. even when they’re not shaping discussion they’re trying to prevent it from taking place.
also theres like 15 steven a smith posts a day and i havent seen josh smith talking about lake trout in months.
Still nothing homosexual about that
i ran into adam silver at the Folsom Gulch in SOMA a few years back when the all-star game was in town.
“Nurse? I think something is wrong with my ba” “SHUT UP, LUKA’S HERE, YOUR BABY CAN WAIT!”
Horrible day to go that hospital with hemorrhoids
The last thing a newborn needs is to be directly exposed to randos lol
“I like meeting women at maternity wards because you know they’re fuckin”
Wouldn’t visiting a childrens hospital make more sense than a maternity ward? Are they there to check out the moms?
Lmao
Kinda weird to go for fresh baby mamas, doesn’t seem like most receptive crowd to a visit from athletes, but maybe slovenian women are super into basketball
Nah, we are not. This is weird af.
?? It’s also a big thing on 8⁄24 for Mamba Day. Check the Lakers IG
Mamba day is not the biggest thing ever in Europe, sorry to say
Is this a serious comment?
Every Slovenian knows that on August 24th, the local hospital invites professional basketball players to bless the newborns and celebrate the ancient tradition of Mamba Day.
Did you genuinely not know this? It’s a big thing.
Like the Dalai Lama the spirit of Kobe gets passed to a newborn on Kobe day. Luka was scouting potential prospects, very normal and honored tradition.
Im not saying specifically in Europe. I also don’t think the hospital visit is specifically for the babies too. They most likely visited other wards of the hospital like they usually do when theyre visiting UCLA children’s hospital too
Call me crazy but I don’t want a bunch of global travelers to come meet my yet to develop an immune system baby
I mean you certainly have a choice if you want to meet with visitors.
lol the hostage lakers at it again
babies?
This seems a bit too blatantly related to the controversies ngl, then again as long as it made those mothers happy it’s a net positive
Yes, the thing my wife desired most immediately after giving birth was to have a bunch of strangers crowd into her hospital room for a photo op…
Actually, no, she just wanted a turkey sandwich and some peace/quiet
I mean yeah sure but I doubt they went room to room bothering moms lmao
In the video they seem mostly to be on the hall greeting staff that seems happy to see Luka there, it’s PR but it’s not like they are actually doing something bad
When we were in the children’s hospital with our daughter, anytime some famous person was visiting they always asked if we wanted to meet them.
Nobody just waltzed into the room that wasn’t a doctor or a nurse or some other medical personnel.
I imagine is a similar situation here.
100%
Okay but a childrens hospital has children excited to see NBA players. A maternity ward is filled with newborn babies and women who just gave birth or about to give birth. Why in the world would they want to hang out with NBA players?
Don Luka 👑
He needs good PR because of the wife stuff right? I haven’t read this much about Luka since all that stuff came out.
Why would he need good pr for getting dumped
Is custody and alimony still on the table or is that all settled?
What negative pr or controversies does he have that would affect custody and how would this change it. I don’t think him being an Overwatch player is the reason to not get custody
To be fair have you ever met a top ranked overwatch player? I certainly wouldn’t want them to be the primary caretaker of my child
Well he’s best friends with a domestic abuser
And who would that be?
There’s going to be whole class registers of kids named Luka from that maternity ward
Actually, Luka was most popular boys’s name in Slovenia every year for more than two decades. 1999-2020. It is still second most popular now.
Always forget how tall NBA players are until they’re surrounded by normal ppl
LukaDONcic W
And that’s how I met your mother
Can anyone make a video without some nice women’s asses anymore ?
when this trip was booked, these kids thought they were gonna meet LeBron. instead they had to meet Dalton Knecht
They met Bronny at least
Yeah, but did they drive through a pedestrian street to get there?!? That’s the real crime here.
Whatta legends!
This is incredibly reckless. What if they’re walking past the blood bank and someone is running out in an emergency and they trip on some size 30 shoes and cover the team in blood that later turns out to be HIV positive!
Ant would never
So… will he visit his kids some other day?
Lakers are marketing geniuses.
I don’t think Slovenian doctors/nurses/baby mammas particularly give a fuck about Dalton Knecht, Bronny, AR, let alone some random dude on the roster
If those little Slovenian babies work really, really hard like Bronnie someday their parents might be able to gift them a spot in the NBA too.
All my wife wanted after giving birth was a turkey sandwich and some quiet time…
Another day another crappy low energy post by LAL
A dozen travel nurses just cleared their post shift schedules just in case they get a DM.
Seems hectic to have that amount of media in a hospital crowding the entrance.
Hospital worker here:
Definitely not ideal to be at an entrance for safety reasons. Although this looks like the general/visitors entrance and not an entrance for those who are coming in to be taken care of (although at times the main entrance can be both).
I don’t know why you’re getting downvoted, I’m sure some while some were happy to get autographs other hospital staff trying to work were not amused by this stunt.
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This whole trip just smells like a PR campaign by the Luka team to save his image and some coin after his baby momma issues. Couple million on sending the team to Slovenia and literally being called a hero or spending $40 million and having less custody?
This trip was a business decision. Also crazy how other videos yesterday were literally being deleted so these PR vids could get propped up.
It’s coordinated and botted up for sure.
Lol, I was thinking more along the lines of this is a nice gesture after their drama in the hospital, nothing to “save” exactly, the money split is for the courts to decide, but ok
The Lukaganda is reaching levels that would make Goebbels proud.
Kinda cringe
From an infection risk standpoint, this is not a good idea at all.
hope defensive liability is not contagious, otherwise Luka just made an entire cohort of one-way players from that hospital
Meeting newborns probably not a great look post Covid
It’s been 5 years are you fucking stupid or something
Wait so you think other germs don’t exist? I mean there is a reason a lot of moms wait until 2 or 3 months to allow visitors for their newborns