Everyone knows the baseball connection between Los Angeles and Japan.
The Metropolis of Angels now has deep sporting ties to a different far-off place — Slovenia.
After a blockbuster, late-night NBA commerce, Slovenian-born Luka Doncic is the most recent member of the Los Angeles Lakers. The previous Dallas Maverick will play in the identical enviornment because the small nation’s largest hockey star — Los Angeles Kings captain Anze Kopitar.
The 2 first met in 2019 in Dallas when Doncic was in attendance to look at the Mavericks play Kopitar’s Kings.
Kopitar and Doncic posed for a post-game image and exchanged jerseys.
The Kings introduced the second again to life with a submit on X after the commerce, saying “the 2 greatest Slovenian athletes of all time are actually in Los Angeles.”
In his unique submit of the image, Kopitar referred to Doncic as “#stud”.
“Yeah, we do hold tabs on one another and cheer one another on,” Kopitar stated, per FOX Sports activities. It’s type of humorous, as a result of for a small nation like we’re, we’ve a number of skilled athletes that play within the highest ranges. You identify it — you’ve bought soccer, basketball, there’s myself, ski jumpers are good, skiers are good. It’s fairly fascinating how effectively we’re represented. And it’s not only one sport. You identify it — the flexibility of sport, it’s fairly wonderful.”
Slovenia has a inhabitants of simply over two million.
