The media pull of the Lakers and the Mavericks with the background of Luka Doncic and its surprising transfer in mid -February will continue. Before even that the 2025/26 season is officially walking. The NBA will resort to the Slovenian star again to inflate the preseason; He already did it in 2023 with the visit of the Texans to the then Wizink Center to measure with Real Madrid, the club that formed Doncic for several years, and intends to make nostalgia another hitch for a friendly (it is never a bad time to do it).
The journalist Marc Stein, well connected to the MAVs, has advanced the most important movement of the next preseason of the NBA. The league’s plan is that they and the Lakers face October in Las Vegas. Entrepreneur to sell entries in the so -called city of sin, which is also having the final phase of the Cup and is one of the candidates to receive a team in the next expansion to 32.
Since Doncic abandoned the discipline of the MAVs, he has been able to prove those honey as a former player on a couple of occasions. first, in the Crypto Arena in Los Angeles; Later he returned as a prodigal son to Dallas, where the screams against the manager who transferred him, Nico Harrison, with happiness screams every time Luka scored.
Las Vegas will continue, thus, being axis of the NBA in what is settled if a new franchise is created there or not. LeBron James, precisely Lakers player, has several times his intention to be the owner of the same in case that idea becomes a reality.
-For Liubliana, it will be another preseason experience, one in which he always plays at half gas for other international commitments. On the occasion of this summer his participation in the Eurobasket is expected with Slovenia, a tournament he won now eight years ago, since the Lakers have given the green light to the participation. The mavs will go later.
More preseason games
The NBA and the Department of Culture and Tourism of Abu Dhabi have already announced announced that the Knicks and the Sixers They will be the two teams that will participate in the usual preseason games in that territory, playing two clashes on Thursday 2 and Saturday, October 4 at the Arena Etihad in Yas Island (United Arab Emirates).
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