The Luka Doncic File
Team: Dallas Mavericks
Height: 6-7
Weight: 230
Age: 23
Birthday: 2/28/1999
Draft: 3rd overall pick, 2018
Contract: Signed a 5-year, $215 million contract extension in 2021
Rewards/Accomplishments
- All-Rookie First Team, 2018-19
- First Team All-NBA, 2018-19, 2020-21, 2021-22
- 2018-19 Rookie of the Year
- All-Star, 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22
- League leader in usage rate, 2020-21, 2021-22
- League leader in triple doubles, 2019-20
- Fastest player in Mavericks history to score 5,000 points
- Most points in a playoff debut (42)
Ball is life.
For Luka Doncic, basketball is everything. He first picked up the ball when he was seven months old. He signed with Real Madrid, the basketball team not the famous soccer club, at age 13. He debuted when he was just 16 years old. So coming from a family of athletes, it was almost destiny for Doncic to find his way into becoming a star somewhere in the sports world.
Doncic terrifies almost any player in his path, impossible to defend and just like any whiny baby, he always gets his way. With the defense, of course. The Slovenian star especially strikes fear into the Los Angeles Clippers and their fans, known for having some of his biggest games against the little brother in the City of Angels.
As if there wasn't enough great things to say about Doncic already, he is quad-lingual. He speaks Slovenian, Serbian, Spanish, and English. If we counted the language of basketball in that statistic, well, it would just make us all feel worse than we already do. Don't compare yourself to Doncic, kids. He's on a completely different level and he's here to stay.