Tag: Luka Doncic
Tom Leppert, former Dallas mayor from 2007 to 2011, penned a personal letter bashing the decision to trade Luka Doncic from the Dallas Mavericks to the Los Angeles Lakers. The letter is available in The Dallas Morning News. Fans have been in their feelings ever since the deal was first announced and it appears Leppert […]
Los Angeles Lakers head coach JJ Redick played five players for the entire second half of Game 4 against the Minnesota Timberwolves. Luka Doncic, Austin Reaves, LeBron James, Rui Hachimura, and Dorian Finney-Smith played all 24 second half minutes. It is the first time an NBA coach has done that in the play-by-play era (1996-97). […]
Midway through the third quarter of Game 2, Los Angeles Lakers head coach JJ Redick called a timeout and tore into his team. After Los Angeles dominated the first half, the Minnesota Timberwolves appeared to be changing momentum and had cut the lead to 11. With the Lakers looking disorganized on offense, Redick called timeout […]
Dallas Mavericks general manager Nico Harrison made decisions which forced Dirk Nowitzki to distance himself from the franchise. This was well before Luka Doncic was traded. In an ESPN exclusive, insider Tim MacMahon detailed how Harrison firing Casey Smith, Mavs director of health and performance, in the summer of 2023 was a clear inflection point […]
The No. 3 Los Angeles Lakers will face the No. 6 Minnesota Timberwolves in the first round of the Western Conference playoffs. Los Angeles was left waiting until the final moment, as the West standings needed the last second of the regular season to be officially sorted. This series presents a fascinating matchup of two […]
Rudy Gobert says he is ready for Luka Doncic in the first round of the playoffs after facing off with the Slovenian in last year’s Conference Finals. Timberwolves facing Lakers The Minnesota Timberwolves and Los Angeles Lakers will go head to head in the first round of the playoffs this season in one of the […]
Luka Doncic’s first return to Dallas on Wednesday night drew ESPN’s largest non-Christmas audience of the season. The game between the Los Angeles Lakers and Dallas Mavericks had an audience of 2.26 millions viewers and a peak of 2.79 million. That marks a 71 percent increase versus a comparable game from last year. It was […]
Luka Doncic sat on the bench and cried throughout the tribute video the Dallas Mavericks dedicated to him. Displayed as he was introduced in the starting lineup as a member of the Los Angeles Lakers, the video showed a plethora of memorable moments Doncic created with the franchise. There has been so much hype surrounding […]
The Oklahoma City Thunder clinched their 65th win of the season Tuesday night, becoming the first team to do so since the 2017-18 Houston Rockets. This win also extends the record for most wins in Thunder franchise history. It was a tense affair between the Thunder and Los Angeles Lakers until Luka Doncic was ejected […]
Los Angeles Lakers superstar Luka Doncic was ejected from the game against the Oklahoma City Thunder Tuesday night after talking trash to a fan. Doncic had just hit a runner when he turned and directed words at a fan who was jawing at him. What went wrong, though, is that referee J.T. Orr was in […]
