On Aug. 16, Luka Doncic’s Slovenia and Latvia faced each other in an exhibition game at Xiaomi Arēna in Riga, Latvia, ahead of EuroBasket. According to a news report on X, the Latvian team reportedly paid for the Slovenian players’ plane tickets to travel to the country.
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Kaspars Cipruss, the General Secretary of the Latvian basketball association, was asked if the team really paid for Luka Doncic and his teammates’ tickets. Cipruss confirmed the report and cited Doncic’s presence for the spending.
“Yes. We paid for the Slovenians’ plane tickets. That was the only way Luka Dončić would come,” he said. “Without him, we would have sold 60 to 70% of the tickets, but with him the arena was sold out.”
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