Overview
- After meetings with Lakers executives, Dončić traveled back to Ljubljana to begin a team-coordinated summer program.
- The agreed focus for the offseason is simple: start his ninth NBA season fully healthy.
- He will not join Slovenia for this summer’s FIBA World Cup qualifiers, though a 2027 World Cup return in Qatar remains possible.
- A thigh injury sidelined him from April 2, and he later said he was never close to returning during the playoff loss to Oklahoma City.
- He played 64 games in 2025–26, one of his lower totals since 2018, which is expected to guide both his conditioning plan and the Lakers’ summer moves.