EL SEGUNDO — Star guard Luka Doncic and center Jaxson Hayes could be teammates on another team than the Lakers.

Hayes confirmed after Sunday’s practice that he’s pursuing a Slovenian passport with the hopes of playing alongside Doncic on the Slovenia national team as a naturalized player.

Generally, naturalized players are foreign-born players who obtain citizenship/a passport in a country to play on its national team , usually after turning 16. FIBA national teams are usually allowed to have one naturalized player on their roster per game.

Doncic and Hayes are both represented by longtime agent Bill Duffy.

“My parents, [Doncic’s] parents are kind of all working on it right now,” Hayes said. “But they came to me with the idea. Each national team gets like one naturalized player or s

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