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The Dodgers quietly made a surprising declaration Wednesday night when they added a crossover Luka Dončić bobblehead in collaboration with their sister team, the Los Angeles Lakers, to their upcoming promotional nights.
The Dodgers will be giving away the Dončić bobblehead to the first 40,000 fans who attend the Friday, August 21, game against the Pittsburgh Pirates. Tickets for the game are currently ranging between $87–$2,338.
The Dončić bobblehead features the Slovenian baller dribbling a basketball while decked out in his Lakers uniform as he poses on a Dodgers platform.
It’s not unheard of for sports teams to have collaboration bobbleheads with other teams. Indeed, the Dodgers are giving away a Shaquille O’Neal bobblehead on Saturday, June 30, when they host the Baltimore Orioles. On July 11, they’re also collaborating with the neighboring soccer team Los Angeles Football Club by giving away a Son Heung-Min bobblehead.
But what makes the Dončić bobblehead a standout is that it will come out about a month before NBA Training Camp begins and will also mark the first full season of Dodgers owner Mark Walter being the majority owner of the Lakers.
In October, 2025, Walter made a splash in Los Angeles when he was approved as the majority owner of the Lakers.
Since then, he’s been tasked with doing to the Lakers what he did with the Dodgers: Bringing them back to their former glory.
In November, ESPN reported that Walter would be bringing in top Dodgers team president Andrew Friedman as a consultant to Lakers president of basketball operations.
When Walter bought the Dodgers in May 2012, he inherited a historic franchise that had fallen on hard times. In his first full season as owner in 2013, the Dodgers made it all the way to the NLCS, and would then make it to back-to-back World Series in 2017 and 2018, instilling that the glory days of the Dodgers were returning.
Over the last six years, the Dodgers have won three World Series and are on the verge of winning back-to-back-to-back contests, becoming the first professional sports team to do so since the Lakers did from 2000–2002.
For the past 14 years, the Dodgers have been considered one of the best-run organizations in baseball as they have consistently been at the top of merchandise sales, fan attendance, consistently bolstered one of the best farm systems, and have created top fan experiences in baseball.
While it’s just a bobblehead, the messaging by the Dodgers corporation makes it clear: They’re going to do for the Lakers what they did with the Dodgers.
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