Luka Doncic shared an emotional message dedicated to his daughters following a recent game. The heartfelt expression highlights his commitment to family amidst his professional responsibilities. The message was captured in an image by Adam Pantozzi, published through NBAE via Getty Images.
28, and training camps around the league open the next day. The 2025-26 season had ended without him on the floor for the playoffs, since a left hamstring injury sidelined him. Boston beat the Mavericks in the 2024 NBA Finals, and Doncic was the one leading Dallas there.
As Reuters reported in May, he chose to skip Slovenia’s national-team duty to have more time with them.
Doncic also told them that being apart will not change where they stand in his life. The note was short and carried no news about the team. Even so, the calendar gives it weight. Lakers media day is Sept. The Slovenian picked his family as the audience before any of that began, and he kept the words plain. G+O, the daughters’ initials, sits at the top of the caption. Two heart emojis wrap it up. Nothing in it points to the season or his workouts. It reads like a dad checking in, and little else. His daughters were already part of his summer plans. Doncic enters this season as the lone headliner in Los Angeles, with LeBron James gone. In an interview with SLAM, he talked about how he has changed. His answer was modest, “probably a better basketball player, more mature. The way he plays, smile included, is much the same, he added. Madrid is where his pro career started. From there he moved to the NBA and was ranked among its best in short order. Going pro early was not easy, yet he credits it with pushing him to mature faster than most players. Dallas is part of the growth story as well. Doubts about his leadership, and about whether he could win a title, followed. Los Angeles has already seen the fun side. In one full season with the Lakers, fans and teammates noticed his lively personality, the way he needles opponents and hunts for any competitive edge.