Dallas Mavericks guard Luka Doncic in action against the New York Knicks. /
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Players and legends of the American league praise the performance of the Slovenian, who had 60 points, 21 rebounds and 10 assists against the New York Knicks
Luka Doncic is still determined to break all records and enter the Olympus of the NBA gods. In the early hours of Wednesday morning, the Slovenian guard played the best game of his career against the New York Knicks, signing an anthological triple-double with 60 points, 21 rebounds and 10 assists. His performance is one of the great individual feats in the American league, along with Wilt Chamberlain’s 100 points against the Knicks, Kobe Bryant’s 81 against the Toronto Raptors or Michael Jordan’s 69 against the Cleveland Cavaliers.
The reactions to the exhibition of the former Real Madrid player did not wait. From the players of his team, the Dallas Mavericks, who greeted him in the locker room with a loud ovation and showered him with bottles of water, to players and basketball legends of the highest level surrendered to his feat. “He’s having fun,” Atlanta Hawks point guard Trae Young posted on his Twitter account, while Kevin Durant compared it to fiction. «It is a performance of the mode my player. It looks like a fucking video game, “commented the Brooklyn Nets forward.
One of the most special and significant compliments was that of Kristaps Porziņgis. The Latvian power forward, who shared a dressing room for three seasons with Doncic and admitted communication and adaptation problems between the two, stated: “This guy is not normal.”
Former players like Pau Gasol and Kendrick Perkins also echoed the feat. “It’s unreal,” said the Spaniard. Likewise, the American was emphatic in assuring: «I have played with many members of the Hall of Fame and I have seen great performances of all time, but what I just witnessed from Luka Doncic was one of the best individual performances I have seen. in my damn life.”
The Slovenian guard is on track to surpass Dirk Nowitzki, who witnessed the match from the stands, as the best player in the history of the Texas franchise. The legendary Kevin Garnett predicted “a statue in Dallas” and the Mavericks manager did not hesitate to assert: “We are witnessing the greatness of Luka Doncic. I have never seen anything like this in my life.”
