The start of the playoffs for Luka was not what he expected, because due to an unexpected injury in the last game of the regular season, the Dallas star missed the first three games of the first round against the Utah Jazz.
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Sin embargo, ehe Slovenian came back in the fourth game of the series and it was as if he had never been injured. Doncic had 30 points and 10 rebounds in his postseason debut and continued the level he had shown with the Mavs all season.
Finally, hand in hand with number 77, Dallas advanced to the conference semifinals after 10 years by leaving Utah and Luka surpassed the historical figure of 500 points in the playoffs, the curious thing? He did it in 16 games, being the fastest player to reach this figure since Michael Jordán.
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In addition, Luka played for the first time in his career the semifinals of the West and did not disappoint, he got 45 points and 12 rebounds, being the youngest player to record a playoff game +45 points and +10 rebounds since Kobe Bryant did it in 2001.
LUKA DONCIC has given everything in Game 1 that Phoenix has won.
▪️45 PTS
▪️12 REB
▪️8 ASISTS#PlayoffTime pic.twitter.com/yiLQTtLOmD— NBA Spain (@NBAspain) May 3, 2022
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On the other hand, Doncic averages 33.4 points in the 17 playoff games he has played in his entire career, tying Michael Jordán’s record and being the players with the best average in NBA postseason history. However, it must be remembered that Jordán held this figure for 179 games.
Fact: Luka Doncic has scored 40 or more points in playoff games for six games and outranks the likes of Kyrie Irving, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Chris Paul and Damian Lillard in this statistic.
