{"id":122874,"date":"2026-06-13T08:13:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T08:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/13\/lakers-downplay-defensive-concerns-of-doncic-reaves-backcourt\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T08:13:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T08:13:35","slug":"lakers-downplay-defensive-concerns-of-doncic-reaves-backcourt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/13\/lakers-downplay-defensive-concerns-of-doncic-reaves-backcourt\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers downplay defensive concerns of Doncic-Reaves backcourt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><br \/>\nThe Los Angeles Lakers are not internally alarmed by external criticism of a Luka Doncic\u2013Austin Reaves backcourt defensively, according to reporting from Dan Woike of The Athletic. The organization\u2019s view hinges on roster construction around the pairing rather than questioning its viability in high-leverage minutes. \u201cProvided the Lakers address other needs on the wing and [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\/219656-lakers-downplay-defensive-concerns-of-doncic-reaves-backcourt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lakers downplay defensive concerns of Doncic-Reaves backcourt<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TalkBasket.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\/219656-lakers-downplay-defensive-concerns-of-doncic-reaves-backcourt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Lakers are not internally alarmed by external criticism of a Luka Doncic\u2013Austin Reaves backcourt defensively, according to reporting from Dan Woike of The Athletic. The organization\u2019s view hinges on roster construction around the pairing rather than questioning its viability in high-leverage minutes. \u201cProvided the Lakers address other needs on the wing and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":122875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122874"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}