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Locked On Lakers - Daily Podcast On The Los Angeles Lakers

Luka Doncic now Truly Ready to be a Laker? Plus, his Relationship With LeBron.

Locked On Lakers - Daily Podcast On The Los Angeles Lakers

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🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

The Summer of Luka continues, this time with a profile in WSJ Magazine, the long form arm of The Wall Street Journal. It's both a player profile -- one confirming again that Luka does, in fact, look awesome, physically -- and a fashion spread. And as the writer Jason Gay notes, the two are related. Most guys aren't all that interested in the modeling (which in this case includes a shot in the cold tub) if they're not feeling good about their appearance. The story was a nice introduction of Dončić to a demographic that might be less familiar with his work. And Rob Pelinka got to describe him as an "illusionist," a word he was likely back-pocketing for use in a well-respected publication like WSJ. Luka, of course, has completely changed the franchise's fortunes, and perhaps nothing illustrates that quite the same way as ESPN's Future Rankings, where without doing much other than swapping Anthony Davis for Luka (and not spending into their cap space), they vaulted from 21st last season to 8th. And let's be honest, most of that is just Luka. So how well set are the Lakers for the future, now that Dončić is under contract? HOSTS: Andy and Brian Kamenetzky SEGMENT 1: More good press for Luka! SEGMENT 2: Did Luka fix LA's future? SEGMENT 3: How well set are the Lakers? Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! 5-Hour ENERGY Enough with boring, flavorless caffeine, it’s time to give your caffeine a flavor upgrade with 5-hour ENERGY®️ shots. Get the favorites you love or be bold and try something new in-store and online at https://www.5hourENERGY.com or Amazon today.  OpenPhone Streamline and scale your customer communications with OpenPhone. Get 20% off your first 6 months at https://www.openphone.com/lockedonnba Monarch Money Take control of your finances with Monarch Money. Use code LOCKEDONNBA at https://monarchmoney.com/lockedonnba for 50% off your first year FanDuel Right now, new customers can bet just FIVE dollars and if your bet wins—you’ll get THREE HUNDRED dollars in bonus bets to use across the app. Download the FanDuel app now by visiting https://FanDuel.comto get started FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN)

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0:00.0

Hey, everyone, welcome to Lockdown Lakers.

0:01.3

For Wednesday, Brian Komeneski, Andy Kaminetsky, has Luca Donchage single-handedly

0:06.8

fixed the Lakers future.

0:09.4

ESPN says, yeah, basically, that's next.

0:18.5

You are Locked on Lakers, your daily Los Angeles Lakers podcast, part of the Locked-on

0:25.0

Podcast Network, your team every day.

0:29.9

Thanks to everybody for making Locked-on Lakers.

0:31.8

First listen to every day Monday through Friday, no matter how where you get your podcast.

0:34.9

This one's always going to be free, never going to cost you a nickel.

0:41.7

Locked on Lakers on YouTube is we're going to go hang out with over 36 000 subscribers andy all of them are leaving us questions and comments and mailbag items which is uh particularly

0:47.2

important at this time of year because you know we've got the time to answer well though we'll say

0:51.7

it training camp it's so close like you can actually

0:55.7

see it it's not like we have to you know look out in the distant future and just beg and plead for

1:01.2

the season to roll around it's like the end of the month they're going to get in a training camp

1:04.6

it's a real basketball talk about it is super exciting everybody is looking forward to this upcoming season with the Lakers, including, most importantly, very outwardly, Luca Donchich.

1:17.7

Yes, the revenge tour, so as it's being called, of Luca Donchich continues.

1:25.4

We had the super viral story, Andy, earlier in the off season,

1:30.7

with Luca on the cover of men's health. That was sort of the coming out, the unveiling, if you will,

1:37.4

of skinny Luca, where everyone, it went from rumor to thing people could see with their very own eyes.

1:46.1

And this profile is from Jason Gay, a longtime NBA writer now with the Wall Street

1:53.3

Journal.

1:53.7

It's in the WSJ magazine, their long form publication that they put out.

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