{"id":55583,"date":"2025-10-19T19:47:34","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T23:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/lakers-hayes-looks-to-play-with-doncic-in-slovenia\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T19:47:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T23:47:34","slug":"lakers-hayes-looks-to-play-with-doncic-in-slovenia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nba\/lakers-hayes-looks-to-play-with-doncic-in-slovenia\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers&#8217; Hayes looks to play with Doncic in Slovenia"},"content":{"rendered":"Lakers player Jaxson Hayes is excited about the idea of playing alongside Luka Doncic, even in the Slovenian national team.\n\nHayes, a 7-foot tall center, has expressed his desire to represent Slovenia in international competitions, seeking to obtain a passport that allows him to occupy the position of naturalized citizen in the team.\n\n<h2>Union with Doncic<\/h2>\n\nThe connection between Hayes and Doncic on the Lakers has been a key factor in this decision. The agent of both players, Bill Duffy of WME Sports, was the one who suggested the possibility of playing for Slovenia, even before Doncic was traded to Los Angeles.\n\nI want to play on that stage. I&#8217;ll do whatever it takes to be there.\n\nHayes&#8217; motivation is also related to the selection process for the United States national basketball team.\n\nThe Lakers coach, JJ Redick, supports Hayes&#8217; initiative.\n\nThe next major event Slovenia hopes to participate in is the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2027 in Doha, Qatar. There will be six qualifying windows starting in November, but only two of them will be outside the NBA season, making it unlikely that Hayes or Doncic will be significant contributors.\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a4.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F1019%2Fr1562721_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><figcaption>Parte de la motivaci\u00f3n de Jaxson Hayes para querer jugar con su compa\u00f1ero de equipo de los Lakers, Luka Doncic, en la selecci\u00f3n nacional de Eslovenia es el proceso de selecci\u00f3n de USA Basketball y su falta de pruebas abiertas. &#8220;Har\u00e9 lo que sea necesario para jugar en ese escenario&#8221;, dijo Hayes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\nHayes expressed his desire to represent his own country, but acknowledged the current situation.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lakers player Jaxson Hayes is excited about the idea of playing alongside Luka Doncic, even in the Slovenian national team. Hayes, a 7-foot tall center, has expressed his desire to represent Slovenia in international competitions, seeking to obtain a passport that allows him to occupy the position of naturalized citizen in the team. Union with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[5298,592,103,7464],"class_list":{"0":"post-55583","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-nba","7":"tag-jaxson-hayes","8":"tag-luka-doncic","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-slovenia"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}