{"id":491375,"date":"2025-03-25T07:26:04","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T11:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=491375"},"modified":"2025-03-25T07:26:04","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T11:26:04","slug":"doncic-its-on-me-and-lebron-to-lead-the-los-angeles-lakers","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/doncic-its-on-me-and-lebron-to-lead-the-los-angeles-lakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Doncic: It\u2019s on me and LeBron to lead the Los Angeles Lakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Things began perfectly for the LA Lakers after the trade that landed Luka Doncic in the franchise, and they started winning immediately, which is already in the past.<\/p>\n<p>The 118-106 defeat against the Orlando Magic dropped the Lakers to 3-7 in the last 10 matches. And at the moment, with just 11 matches remaining in the regular campaign and a top 6 seed in the West far from guaranteed, the loss against Orlando made Doncic reflect on what\u2019s happening.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, we just got a little bit satisfied,&#8221; Luka shared. \u201cThat\u2019s not something that we can afford at the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>LA is a number 4 seed in the Western Conference and only 3 matches up to the number 7 seed Clippers, who are in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> play-in tournament place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMe and James must lead the Lakers,\u201d the Slovenian superstar told the media. \u201cI\u2019m to blame for that. I must perform better on the court. I got to be more active like in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> half, and I didn\u2019t keep the same energy in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles head coach JJ Redick revealed that the organization is going through a tough time at the moment.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Luka Don\u010di\u0107: &quot;I think we just got to look back at the way we played at that 8-game winning streak\u2026 I think we just got a little bit satisfied, we can&#39;t afford that right now.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LakeShow?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#LakeShow<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YrorMZIQtE\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/YrorMZIQtE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Spectrum SportsNet (@SpectrumSN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpectrumSN\/status\/1904362182185525276?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 25, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things began perfectly for the LA Lakers after the trade that landed Luka Doncic in the franchise, and they started winning immediately, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":491377,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16970,16747,17837],"news_category":[16706,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[17645,18115,1067],"acf":{"announce":"Luka spoke about the topic after the team lost another match.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/491375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/491375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":491378,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/491375\/revisions\/491378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491375"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=491375"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=491375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}