{"id":457410,"date":"2025-12-06T12:31:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T12:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/457410\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T12:31:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T12:31:18","slug":"are-luka-doncic-and-austin-reeves-bffs-los-angeles-lakers-duo-sets-new-heights-of-friendship-with-adorable-life-decision-nba-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/457410\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Luka Doncic and Austin Reeves BFFs? Los Angeles Lakers duo sets new heights of friendship with adorable life decision | NBA News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Are Luka Doncic and Austin Reeves are setting major BFF goals within the league. The duo literally shares one of the most adorable bromance in the NBA and Luka\u2019s latest adorable decision set new heights to this friendship. Recently, the NBA legend and his fiancee Anamaria Goltes welcomed their second child. Luka put up a story announcing the happy news to the world. But what caught everyone\u2019s attention was the child’s name.Luka evidently named their second child after Austin, who shares a close bond with the former. Not only this. Austin, in a recent post-game interview, made a hilarious statement that made everyone present laugh. The athlete requested Luka to come back to the court soon, despite winning the game against the Toronto Raptors.<\/p>\n

Luka Doncic names his second child after Austin Reeves<\/p>\n

It is a big day for the Doncic family. Just a few days ago, Luka and his fiancee Anamaria Goltes celebrated the birthday of their first child and now the couple has welcomed their second child. The moment became even more special when the duo decided to name the child after Luka\u2019s best friend within the league, Austin Reeves. They named the child Mateo Austin Reeves.The moment immediately reflected the kind of bromance Luka and Austin share both on the court and off-court. There have been instances when members of the Los Angeles Lakers team have stated how the duo\u2019s bond has developed over time through trash talk and teasing. While their on-court chemistry is evident through the gameplay and dunk records, ESPN\u2019s Dave McMenamin once quoted the Lakers\u2019 coach JJ Reddick while describing their friendship. Reddick stated, \u201cThey both realized that they both enjoy talking trash\u2014a lot. And their personalities in that regard are very similar. And so they can create a little bit of chemistry with each other just by being their natural selves.”This is not the only instance that would highlight the bond between the athletes. Despite trash-talking each other, Austin recently expressed his thoughts after winning the game against the Toronto Raptors. The athlete, even though he scored the highest, wanted Luka to be back as soon as possible. He even added, \u201cI miss you, brother,\u201d towards the end of the statement, which reflected the impact of Luka\u2019s absence on the team.Luka just took this bromance to a whole new level by naming his child after Austin. Such deep connections and bonds are meant to be preserved and with this latest decision of Luka, it seems like the friendship is going to last and maybe even forever.Also Read: LeBron James shatters Kevin Durant’s dream with another untouchable NBA record despite end of his 1,297-game double-digit run<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luka Doncic and Austin Reeves are setting major BFF goals within the league. The duo literally shares one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3790],"tags":[20003,7,2346,66426,66427,4034,1698,300,4044,251,150,4033,4043,368,66428,6,66425,2032,33544],"class_list":{"0":"post-457410","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-lakers","8":"tag-austin-reeves","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-basketball-news","11":"tag-bromance-in-sports","12":"tag-child-named-after-friend","13":"tag-la","14":"tag-la-lakers","15":"tag-lakers","16":"tag-lalakers","17":"tag-los-angeles","18":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","19":"tag-losangeles","20":"tag-losangeleslakers","21":"tag-luka-doncic","22":"tag-luka-doncic-child-name","23":"tag-nba","24":"tag-nba-friendship","25":"tag-nba-players","26":"tag-sports-relationships"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115672638540692274","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}