Los Angeles Lakers center Jaxson Hayes could soon debut on the international stage, but not for the United States. Hayes said he is working on acquiring a Slovenian passport in order to join his superstar teammate, Luka Dončić, on his national team in future offseasons.

FIBA permits national teams to have one naturalized player on their roster per game. Players who receive passports before age 16 are considered locals, while those who are granted citizenship after that cutoff count toward the naturalized player cap.

"We have the same agent, and my parents and his parents are kind of all working on it right now," Hayes said Sunday at Lakers practice . "They came to me with the idea. I think each national team gets one naturalized player, or something like that. They brought that to m

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