July 28, 2025 • 6 mins
"Was Luka Doncic’s transformation sparked by heartbreak, humiliation… or LeBron James?"In this explosive episode of The Ben and Skin Show, Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray dive deep into the jaw-dropping Men's Health cover featuring a lean, mean Luka Doncic. From his grueling two-a-day workouts in Croatia to his 250g protein diet, Luka’s “revenge bod” is more than just a glow-up—it’s a statement.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Give me that news quickie. Yeah. Do you guys see
the cover of the new Men's Health? I did, Uh No,
I don't seek those out actually, so.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Which probably yeah, which probably show Christina because Luca, you
guys know Luka Dancic, you guys part of him, right,
miss sim.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
He is on the cover of Men's Health.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
And he does look very small compared Wow, he does.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
You're seeing that there we go, almost a little too small.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Yes, it's very strange. I read the article this morning.
I blew through it because it is interesting. I'm gonna
read you a couple of excerpts and things like that.
He says, Luca knows that you're thinking. He looks lean
as heck. Now, that's because he's thinking the exact same thing.
He's been training on a basketball court in Croatia, doing
(00:52):
two ninety minute hardcore workouts a day with his trainer.
It's a session with barely any breathers, which is fine.
This version of Doncic doesn't need them. This Luca is different.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
I love it. This is great.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
But look, the Luca conversation is complicated for MAVs fans
for a million different reasons. But many of these things
are okay. To be true simultaneously. Yes, it was the
worst trade in the history of organized sports, one hundred
percent terrible, terrible trade. But if you're willing to just
look at it like objectively, the Mavericks were about to
(01:27):
pay him the super Max contract seventy million dollars a year,
and he didn't want to get in shape. Now, even
out of shape, Luca is good enough to carry your
team to the NBA Finals. But if you're gonna pay
him seventy million dollars a year, and you wonder, okay,
if he's carrying all this extra weight and he's continually
having calf injuries, we're not even able to really talk
(01:48):
to his team about his health. You can kind of
understand how it can go sideways. Now, in the event
you decided you wanted to trade Luca should have gotten
way more for him than you got even if you
got it. But none of us, whatever trade Luca, we
would try to get him to do this here to
get in shape with the Mavericks. That wasn't going to happen.
So I think you have two alternate realities. You have
(02:10):
the reality that what would have happened if they had
paid him seventy million I think he would have stayed
out of shape, and he would have stayed out of
shape here, and I don't know how that would have gone.
I still would have loved it because I loved the player.
But what happened to him when he got traded? He
was blindsided. It cost him. I've heard seventy million. I've
heard one hundred and twenty million. It cost him a
lot of money to not sign the Supermax with the Mavericks,
(02:31):
money that he'll never get back. He'll get big contracts,
that's fine, but it cost him a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
That was humiliating. Then he gets to LA.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
And they're talking about he's not really in shape, and
you know, he's trying to play himself into shape. And
then he looks at Lebron, who's forty and has like
two percent body fat and really takes care of his
body and treats it like a temple. So what was it?
Was it the embarrassment of not getting the Supermax, of
getting traded when you're a franchise guy. Was it seeing
how Lebron really takes care of his body. Say whatever
(02:59):
you want about Lebron, He great care of his body.
Whatever it was, this version of Luca was not going
to happen in Dallas. I don't think because it hadn't happened.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
I think what it is. I think it's two things. Oh,
it could be a combination of all these things. The
Lebron thing what you said, right, how about just the
people that traded you, absolutely kicking you out the door
and crapping on you on your way out, insulting you,
saying things about you through the media like that, combined
(03:30):
with he's twenty six, right, and it's just you know, different,
and it's time to grow up. We talked for years
about Dirk and him giving up sugar at twenty seven
or whatever it is.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
I do think this is his big revenge pod. There's
no doubt. You know, it was interesting too. Lebron just
can't let Luca have the day.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Lebron tweeting this morning or posting somewhere at five am,
going to the gym getting ready for year twenty three.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Okay, I'm like, dude, so you've got to train harder
than Luca now as Lucas and the men's out. Dude,
Lebron is so annoying sometimes, yes, so okay. One thing.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
The mark Stein is not letting the Lebron thing. Go
to the Mavericks. Really, now, I haven't seen that. He's
saying they're not they're not going to trade. We know
that they're not going to trade their depth for Lebron.
But if Lebron talked the Lakers into buyout, and I'm
not saying they would, why would they? Then he said
the Mavericks would be very interested at that point. And
the only reason I bring this up that's a it's
(04:28):
a crazy hail Mary. But what if the trade it
was not Cooper flag because there's no way to control that.
If Kyrie hadn't have gotten hurt, the Mavericks wouldn't have
the number one pick. Yeah, so I don't believe there
was this handshake deal you're going to get the number
one pick. But what if there was this idea that, hey,
we're also going to buy out Lebron and you'll get
his last year? I mean what what I was just
(04:50):
in there going what if that was part of the trade.
It was like, look, we're going to give you a
D and Max Christy and these this pick and it's
going to be real underwhelming, but you're also going to
get the last year of Lebron.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
I mean it helps tell the story.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
I mean, I don't know, No, I doubt it happens,
but I saw that and I was like, this will
not go away.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
I mean, I do think there's a part of Lebron
that I can't handle.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
That.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Lucas the star, yeah, I mean I just think he
can't handle that.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
But Lucas not acting like he's wanting to take over
the team like Lucas just I don't know. That meeting though,
is interesting, the behind the scenes meeting that got out
because they went to a restaurant.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Just go to someone's house. You don't have to go
to a restaurant. All these meetings, whatever it is for.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Great, Donci still just twenty six, never quite looked the
Greek god part. Last August, critics blasted him for looking
fat and out of shape during a charity game. The
moment the Mats traded into the Lakers. In February, rumors
lead at Dallas didn't want to deal with his love
of beer and hookah. Even this summer, the NBA web
has chattered that Doncic is on ozimpic. He is now
(05:51):
eating two hundred and fifty grams of protein to day,
having one almond milk shake and again to a day
ninety minutes each.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
He texted after the season, and he texted Laura Beth,
his manager and a friend of the show. He texted her,
I want to get that. I want to start the
off season training as soon as possible. And it says
in the article he says, the summer was just a
little bit different.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
It kind of motivated me to be even better. He
doesn't say what.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Probably the playoff loss is what he meant, but it
also is being traded. Yeah, so look out, everyone's Luca's year.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
This story is not going away, and it's going to
be painful to watch him dominate forever. But at least
the Mavericks lucked into the number one pick in a
year that it absolutely matters to have the number one
pick and got Cooper flag. It's going to make it
easier to watch Luca thin Luca dominate the adia.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
All right, it's tough, all right.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Coming up next, audio of a shocking man versus animal fight. Now,
this is just a couple of minutes away. We have
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this
Give me that news quickie. Yeah. Do you guys see
the cover of the new Men's Health? I did, Uh No,
I don't seek those out actually, so.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Which probably yeah, which probably show Christina because Luca, you
guys know Luka Dancic, you guys part of him, right,
miss sim.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
He is on the cover of Men's Health.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
And he does look very small compared Wow, he does.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
You're seeing that there we go, almost a little too small.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Yes, it's very strange. I read the article this morning.
I blew through it because it is interesting. I'm gonna
read you a couple of excerpts and things like that.
He says, Luca knows that you're thinking. He looks lean
as heck. Now, that's because he's thinking the exact same thing.
He's been training on a basketball court in Croatia, doing
(00:52):
two ninety minute hardcore workouts a day with his trainer.
It's a session with barely any breathers, which is fine.
This version of Doncic doesn't need them. This Luca is different.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
I love it. This is great.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
But look, the Luca conversation is complicated for MAVs fans
for a million different reasons. But many of these things
are okay. To be true simultaneously. Yes, it was the
worst trade in the history of organized sports, one hundred
percent terrible, terrible trade. But if you're willing to just
look at it like objectively, the Mavericks were about to
(01:27):
pay him the super Max contract seventy million dollars a year,
and he didn't want to get in shape. Now, even
out of shape, Luca is good enough to carry your
team to the NBA Finals. But if you're gonna pay
him seventy million dollars a year, and you wonder, okay,
if he's carrying all this extra weight and he's continually
having calf injuries, we're not even able to really talk
(01:48):
to his team about his health. You can kind of
understand how it can go sideways. Now, in the event
you decided you wanted to trade Luca should have gotten
way more for him than you got even if you
got it. But none of us, whatever trade Luca, we
would try to get him to do this here to
get in shape with the Mavericks. That wasn't going to happen.
So I think you have two alternate realities. You have
(02:10):
the reality that what would have happened if they had
paid him seventy million I think he would have stayed
out of shape, and he would have stayed out of
shape here, and I don't know how that would have gone.
I still would have loved it because I loved the player.
But what happened to him when he got traded? He
was blindsided. It cost him. I've heard seventy million. I've
heard one hundred and twenty million. It cost him a
lot of money to not sign the Supermax with the Mavericks,
(02:31):
money that he'll never get back. He'll get big contracts,
that's fine, but it cost him a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
That was humiliating. Then he gets to LA.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
And they're talking about he's not really in shape, and
you know, he's trying to play himself into shape. And
then he looks at Lebron, who's forty and has like
two percent body fat and really takes care of his
body and treats it like a temple. So what was it?
Was it the embarrassment of not getting the Supermax, of
getting traded when you're a franchise guy. Was it seeing
how Lebron really takes care of his body. Say whatever
(02:59):
you want about Lebron, He great care of his body.
Whatever it was, this version of Luca was not going
to happen in Dallas. I don't think because it hadn't happened.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
I think what it is. I think it's two things. Oh,
it could be a combination of all these things. The
Lebron thing what you said, right, how about just the
people that traded you, absolutely kicking you out the door
and crapping on you on your way out, insulting you,
saying things about you through the media like that, combined
(03:30):
with he's twenty six, right, and it's just you know, different,
and it's time to grow up. We talked for years
about Dirk and him giving up sugar at twenty seven
or whatever it is.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
I do think this is his big revenge pod. There's
no doubt. You know, it was interesting too. Lebron just
can't let Luca have the day.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Lebron tweeting this morning or posting somewhere at five am,
going to the gym getting ready for year twenty three.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Okay, I'm like, dude, so you've got to train harder
than Luca now as Lucas and the men's out. Dude,
Lebron is so annoying sometimes, yes, so okay. One thing.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
The mark Stein is not letting the Lebron thing. Go
to the Mavericks. Really, now, I haven't seen that. He's
saying they're not they're not going to trade. We know
that they're not going to trade their depth for Lebron.
But if Lebron talked the Lakers into buyout, and I'm
not saying they would, why would they? Then he said
the Mavericks would be very interested at that point. And
the only reason I bring this up that's a it's
(04:28):
a crazy hail Mary. But what if the trade it
was not Cooper flag because there's no way to control that.
If Kyrie hadn't have gotten hurt, the Mavericks wouldn't have
the number one pick. Yeah, so I don't believe there
was this handshake deal you're going to get the number
one pick. But what if there was this idea that, hey,
we're also going to buy out Lebron and you'll get
his last year? I mean what what I was just
(04:50):
in there going what if that was part of the trade.
It was like, look, we're going to give you a
D and Max Christy and these this pick and it's
going to be real underwhelming, but you're also going to
get the last year of Lebron.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
I mean it helps tell the story.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
I mean, I don't know, No, I doubt it happens,
but I saw that and I was like, this will
not go away.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
I mean, I do think there's a part of Lebron
that I can't handle.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
That.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Lucas the star, yeah, I mean I just think he
can't handle that.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
But Lucas not acting like he's wanting to take over
the team like Lucas just I don't know. That meeting though,
is interesting, the behind the scenes meeting that got out
because they went to a restaurant.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Just go to someone's house. You don't have to go
to a restaurant. All these meetings, whatever it is for.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Great, Donci still just twenty six, never quite looked the
Greek god part. Last August, critics blasted him for looking
fat and out of shape during a charity game. The
moment the Mats traded into the Lakers. In February, rumors
lead at Dallas didn't want to deal with his love
of beer and hookah. Even this summer, the NBA web
has chattered that Doncic is on ozimpic. He is now
(05:51):
eating two hundred and fifty grams of protein to day,
having one almond milk shake and again to a day
ninety minutes each.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
He texted after the season, and he texted Laura Beth,
his manager and a friend of the show. He texted her,
I want to get that. I want to start the
off season training as soon as possible. And it says
in the article he says, the summer was just a
little bit different.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
It kind of motivated me to be even better. He
doesn't say what.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Probably the playoff loss is what he meant, but it
also is being traded. Yeah, so look out, everyone's Luca's year.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
This story is not going away, and it's going to
be painful to watch him dominate forever. But at least
the Mavericks lucked into the number one pick in a
year that it absolutely matters to have the number one
pick and got Cooper flag. It's going to make it
easier to watch Luca thin Luca dominate the adia.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
All right, it's tough, all right.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Coming up next, audio of a shocking man versus animal fight. Now,
this is just a couple of minutes away. We have
audio of a shocking man versus animal fight. Don't miss
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