cFew words sum up some legendary events. “’77 is special,” said Dallas Mavericks fullback Dwight Powell. “It’s like 2K’s ‘My Player’ mode,” said NBA star Kevin Durant. Luka Doncic had signed a legendary night. Of those of Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan or LeBron James. 60 points, 21 rebounds and 10 assists, with a legendary field goal tying the game for his Mavs against the New York Knicks. The impossible among the impossible that the Slovenian continues to build.
Impossible, because it was a game that Doncic’s Mavs should never have won. Never, because never in history had such a thing been seen. There were 35 seconds left on the clock for American Airlines in Dallas, and the locals were down nine points. In the last 20 seasons in the league, 13,884 games have arrived with a collection like that at that moment of the game. Doncic equalized with a series of very clever plays, and in overtime, the Mavs won. One, of 13,885. “The miracle of Luka and the Mavs,” the narrator yelled like hell of the American television party. It wasn’t for the humble.
Luka Doncic becomes eternal
Doncic, immersed in an almost perfect path, has broken into something impossible. Among the NBA totems, the ‘white and black legends’. There were only two players playing lines of at least 50+20+10. Wilt Chamberlain, who did it twice (1963 and 1968) and Elgin Baylor (1961). They say one was the most dominant player in history, the other that he was a deadly goalscorer and ahead of his time. Nobody else. And Luka, with them.
The different factor is that he is 23 years old. Yes, that ‘qualification’ that always accompanies the Slovenian afterwardswho broke into the Palacio de los Deportes in Madrid when he was a child. But it’s still relevant that he snatched the record for youngest player with a 50-point triple-double from Chamberlain. He did it to 26. To put it into context, Wilt’s mythical 100-point game was with 25.
This was Luka Doncic’s exhibition
“Breaking” with those myths of another era is almost as important as the performance. It is the definitive consecration of the NBA banner. “It’s very difficult to do something that has never been seen before. There were great players before. Elign Baylor and Wilt. He was in that class. But he was separated to form his own status. The class of him,” Jason Kidd mused., Mavs coach. An impossible in a miraculous night.
The following steps
But you don’t live only on miracles, and this season Doncic has to maintain an incredible level, which has a numerical comparison at his age with what Michael Jordan was doing, to make his Mavericks count. Is the big fight, and with weeks with 50 points against the Rockets, 32 and vital against the Lakers, and 60 against the Knicks, Luka won’t turn him down. It’s in your DNA.
Because it’s not an isolated performance, it’s the “boom” of the latest striker. Of a star that he wants more. “I tried to defend him, I promise. But he is skilled. With the ball, without the ball. He knows where he is and what he has to do at all times on the pitch. It’s not for nothing that he is one of the best players in the world,” confessed Doncic’s main hit of the night, Quentin Grimes, his defender. He lived how a myth is built between miracles and the impossible.
