Luka Doncic And Rob Pelinka FULL Press Conference And Reaction

Lakers Nation Podcast

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Sports, Basketball

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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The Lakers got Luka Doncic signed to a contract extension, we've got the press conference and reaction from Trevor Lane including some revealing comments on LA's future...

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0:00.0	The Lakers got it done. Luca Donchin signs his extension. Afterwards, had a press conference to officially announce it. I've got that press conference right now, courtesy of the Lakers. I want to show it to you all. We're going to react to it together and break it down. Luca talks about his motivations for staying long term with the Lakers. Plus, Rob Polika has some comments about the future of this club that I think are really important.
0:23.5	I'm Trevor Lane.
0:24.1	This is thelakersnation.com YouTube channel.
0:26.3	Hit that subscribe button.
0:27.7	Let's do this.
0:30.0	Good morning.
0:31.7	Actually, six months ago to the day, the Los Angeles L chose Luca Dantzich through a trade where he came to our franchise.
0:45.3	Today, Luca Dantzich chose the Los Angeles Lakers and that is a monumental moment in Lakers and and we could be not more we could not be more grateful for you
0:59.0	choosing this partnership the best young basketball player in the universe
1:05.0	joins for the long-term future the best sports franchise on the globe. So truly an
1:12.7	exciting day on behalf of Jeannie Bus and Mark Walter and Coach Reddick and a lot
1:18.9	of Lucas teammates, Marcus, Gabe, Maxi, DeAndre that are here today. Just want
1:26.9	to let you know how incredible of a moment this is for us.
1:30.3	Today wouldn't have happened without Lara Beth and Bill Duffy.
1:36.3	I've been in the basketball circles since 1998 and I don't think I've come across partners that work as hard with as much integrity to partner with the franchise like they have. So thank you guys for helping us create this moment for Luca and his family. So just really pleased to be here and I'll let Luca give an opening statement before we take some questions. You know, I actually think that's a really important distinction that Rob just made there,
2:02.3	that Luca chose the Lakers.
2:04.5	We have to remember that it literally six months ago to the day,
2:07.5	the Lakers traded for Luca, obviously that incredible, most shocking trade in NBA history
2:12.5	with the Dallas Mavericks, but the Lakers didn't have a chance to talk to Luca ahead of time about that.
2:18.0	They had to keep that all very, very quiet.
2:19.8	They didn't know what the reaction was going to be to the trade from Luca Dodg.
2:24.2	Was he going to want to stay long term with the Lakers?
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