{"id":34148,"date":"2025-02-23T14:11:48","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T14:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/23\/lebron-james-salutes-natural-quarterback-luka-doncic-as-lakers-rout-nuggets\/"},"modified":"2025-02-23T14:11:48","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T14:11:48","slug":"lebron-james-salutes-natural-quarterback-luka-doncic-as-lakers-rout-nuggets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/23\/lebron-james-salutes-natural-quarterback-luka-doncic-as-lakers-rout-nuggets\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James salutes \u2018natural quarterback\u2019 Luka Don\u010di\u0107 as Lakers rout Nuggets"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Pair combine for 57 points in dominant 123-100 win<\/li>\n<li>Don\u010di\u0107 says he is finding his form for new team<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/luka-doncic\">Luka Don\u010di\u0107<\/a> scored 32 points, grabbed 10 rebounds, dished out seven assists and stole four passes while leading the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/los-angeles-lakers\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> to a 123-100 wipeout of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/denver-nuggets\">Denver Nuggets<\/a>, who had won nine consecutive games, on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cFinally feel like myself a little bit,\u201d Don\u010di\u0107 said. \u201cPlaying this game, this is what I love. Just finally being myself a little bit, that\u2019s why I was smiling all game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> So was LeBron James, who chipped in 25 points, 10 rebounds, five assists and three blocks \u2013 and several times was on the receiving end of Don\u010di\u0107\u2019s long passes for fastbreak buckets as the Lakers led wire-to-wire against their recent nemisis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am a natural-born wide receiver and he\u2019s a natural-born quarterback,\u201d cracked James.<\/p>\n<p> Don\u010di\u0107 said his chemistry with the Lakers, James included, is still budding. \u201cThis is my fourth game,\u201d Don\u010di\u0107 said. \u201cChemistry takes time. You saw today that it\u2019s getting better. Every day, it\u2019s getting better. &#8230; Hard, different, but I\u2019m happy to be playing basketball. Every day is going to get better for me. I\u2019m happy to be here. I\u2019m happy for the new journey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/feb\/23\/lebron-james-luka-doncic-lakers-nba\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pair combine for 57 points in dominant 123-100 win Don\u010di\u0107 says he is finding his form for new team Luka Don\u010di\u0107 scored 32 points, grabbed 10 rebounds, dished out seven assists and stole four passes while leading the Los Angeles Lakers to a 123-100 wipeout of the Denver Nuggets, who had won nine consecutive games, &#8230; <a title=\"LeBron James salutes \u2018natural quarterback\u2019 Luka Don\u010di\u0107 as Lakers rout Nuggets\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/23\/lebron-james-salutes-natural-quarterback-luka-doncic-as-lakers-rout-nuggets\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about LeBron James salutes \u2018natural quarterback\u2019 Luka Don\u010di\u0107 as Lakers rout Nuggets\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}