{"id":569051,"date":"2026-01-29T18:49:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T18:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/569051\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T18:49:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T18:49:15","slug":"lakers-luka-doncic-has-hilarious-four-word-answer-to-donovan-mitchells-basic-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/569051\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers&#8217; Luka Doncic has hilarious four-word answer to Donovan Mitchell&#8217;s basic question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/los-angeles-lakers\/news\/lakers-luka-doncic-answer-donovan-mitchells-basic-question\/acdc8ecbd61a576b5d746523?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Lakers&#039; Luka Doncic has hilarious four-word answer to Donovan Mitchell&#039;s basic question;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Lakers&#8217; Luka Doncic has hilarious four-word answer to Donovan Mitchell&#8217;s basic question<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Sporting News;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The Sporting News<\/a>. Add The Sporting News as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Preferred Source by clicking here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The NBA season is unforgiving. Eighty two regular season games &#8212; not to mention travel and limited days for rest and recovery.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Luka Doncic is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/los-angeles-lakers\/news\/luka-doncic-injury-update-lakers-locker-room-ankle\/c4f2da146213362f1b5b8bc1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:starting to feel the weight;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">starting to feel the weight<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/los-angeles-lakers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Los Angeles Lakers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a>&#8216; road schedule.<\/p>\n<p>Following Wednesday night&#8217;s blowout loss to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/cleveland-cavaliers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Cleveland Cavaliers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a>, Doncic caught up with Donovan Mitchell before heading to the locker room. The Cavs guard asked Doncic where the Lakers were playing next on their current eight-game road trip.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have no idea,&#8221; Doncic told Mitchell, who let out a smile and chuckle. NBA on ESPN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DUGYlE0ji0U\/?igsh=OHVrbTB6Y3BjNHR5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:posted a clip of the duo&#039;s conversation;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">posted a clip of the duo&#8217;s conversation<\/a> on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>Next stop: The nation&#8217;s capital<\/p>\n<p>To answer Mitchell&#8217;s question, the Lakers travel to Washington, D.C., for a matchup against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/washington-wizards\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Wizards;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Wizards<\/a> on Friday night. They finish off the road trip in New York against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/new-york-knicks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Knicks;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Knicks<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/brooklyn-nets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Brooklyn Nets;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Brooklyn Nets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Based on Doncic&#8217;s response to Mitchell, the 2023-24 scoring champion may be ready for the All-Star break.<\/p>\n<p>Doncic<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/stats\/leaders\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:ranks in the top five in the NBA in minutes per game;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> ranks in the top five in the NBA in minutes per game<\/a>, averaging 36.3 per night. He avoided serious injury in the first quarter of Wednesday&#8217;s game after landing off the elevated part of Cleveland&#8217;s court following a shot attempt.<\/p>\n<p>More NBA news:<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lakers&#8217; Luka Doncic has hilarious four-word answer to Donovan Mitchell&#8217;s basic question originally appeared on The Sporting News.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":569052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,247,193,864,304,150,368,6,1007,683],"class_list":{"0":"post-569051","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-brooklyn-nets","10":"tag-cleveland-cavaliers","11":"tag-donovan-mitchell","12":"tag-knicks","13":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","14":"tag-luka-doncic","15":"tag-nba","16":"tag-nba-on-espn","17":"tag-wizards"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115979889179684186","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569051","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=569051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}