{"id":457520,"date":"2025-12-06T13:52:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T13:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/457520\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T13:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T13:52:09","slug":"lakers-luka-doncic-announces-birth-of-second-daughter-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/457520\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers&#8217; Luka Doncic announces birth of second daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \"><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3945274\/luka-doncic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Luka Doncic<\/a> announced the birth of his second child &#8212; a daughter, Olivia &#8212; on Instagram on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Doncic, who missed the Lakers&#8217; last two games for &#8220;personal reasons,&#8221; has been away from the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/lal\/los-angeles-lakers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> and back in his hometown of Ljubljana, Slovenia to be with his fianc\u00e9e, Anamaria Goltes, for the delivery, sources told ESPN.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Doncic and Goltes also have a two-year old daughter, Gabriela, together.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">L.A. went 1-1 in his absence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Lakers coach JJ Redick said Friday before L.A.&#8217;s 126-105 loss to the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/bos\/boston-celtics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Boston Celtics<\/a> that it&#8217;s possible Doncic will be back with the team as soon as Sunday in Philadelphia for their game against the 76ers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Lakers have an off day Saturday after a back-to-back on Thursday and Friday in Toronto and Boston.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The 26-year-old Doncic leads the NBA in scoring this season, averaging a career-best 35.3 points per game. He is also fourth in the league in assists (8.9), 19th in rebounds (8.9) and 11th in steals (1.6) per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">L.A. is off to a 16-6 start to the season and are No. 3 in the Western Conference standings.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 ESPN Internet Ventures. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luka Doncic announced the birth of his second child &#8212; a daughter, Olivia &#8212; on Instagram on Saturday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[66434,7,2120,130,150,6,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-457520","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-66434","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-doncic-luka","11":"tag-espn","12":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115672956535139928","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457520","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=457520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}