Luka Doncic returns this Tuesday to Madrid, to what was his home, to the city where he grew up, where he took the first steps of his career and trained, until he became one of the figures of European basketball (8:45 p.m., Movistar +).
On his return to the front of the Dallas Mavericksfive years after his last game in white, returns as a global star to face his former team in the 20th game of a North American League team in Spain as part of the NBA Global Games in preparation for the start of the season on October 24.
The match will have the added morbidity of the reunion of It was left over con Dante Exum, new signing of the Mavericksand both protagonists of the incidents of the past Euroleague ‘playoff’ between andl Madrid and Partizan.
More than the pulse between Real Madrid and the Dallas Mavericks, In the first steps of the preseason, the game will be considered a tribute to the talented player who settled in the capital at the age of 12 and who seven years later, when he had just turned 19, embarked on the path to the NBA after monopolizing that season. the titles of MVP of the League, the Euroleague and the Final Four in Belgrade, in which the white box was imposed.
“It means a lot to me. I’ve been thinking about this game since they told me I was going to play there,” he acknowledged a few days ago before traveling. “I grew up there. They taught me to speak English, Spanish, to play basketball. I have played and lived there for seven years. It is my second home, without a doubt. Real Madrid gave me life, the opportunity to be here now in the NBA, so I’m very excited to be back.”
Madrid ambassador
The return of the ‘boy wonder’ to Wizink Center This Monday it had a wide institutional deployment. In an event at the headquarters of the Community of Madrid, in Puerta del Sol, attended as representatives of Real Madrid by both Felipe Reyeswho carries out institutional tasks in the club, such as Rudy Fernándezthe current captain of the Madrid team, Luka Doncic received from the hands of the Madrid president Isabel Ayuso recognition as Ambassador of the Community of Madrid. “He will forever be another Madrid native and in the NBA, an ambassador of our language,” he said. Ayusoin an event that was also attended Jorge Garbajosa as president of FIBA Europe.
“I am very grateful for all the words I have heard, the presence of these two former teammates, Felipe Reyes and Rudy, with whom I have played a lot. It is an honor to receive this award and tomorrow is going to be a very special day for me, there will be many emotions. I know what it means Rhea Madrid and Madrid for me. “Thank you all,” he replied. Doncic.
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For the Mavericks de Doncicwho will direct Jason Kidd for the third year, this is a key season in a project that was exciting two years ago, getting into the Western final (to lose to the Warriors) and disappointed in the last one, in which they were left out of the playoffs, despite the mid-campaign incorporation of Kyrie Irving. “I think we have a better team than last year, a lot of new people so we will have to train a lot. But the objective is the same: to win the title, that is the objective,” he noted at the media day of Dallas.
2023-10-10 14:29:04
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