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Luka Doncic makes NBA history with 60-21-10 triple-double in Dallas Mavericks’ win after making put-back falling jumper in final seconds to take game into overtime – as he jokes he ‘needs a recovery beer’ before soaking from teammates
- Luka Doncic scored 60 points, had 21 rebounds and 10 assists in the OT victory
- Doncic was drowned in water by his Mavs teammates after the historic game
- Dallas came back from a nine-point deficit with 44.6s remaining to force OT
- The Slovenian star amassed career-highs in points and rebounds Tuesday night
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As if NBA fans did not love Luka Doncic enough, he endeared himself further during a hilarious postgame interview following another historic performance.
Doncic almost single-handedly willed the Mavs to a 126-121 overtime victory, creating history with the NBA’s first 60-point, 20-rebound and 10-assist game.
In totality, the Slovenian superstar finished with 60 points, 21 rebounds — both career highs — and 10 assists as the Knicks dropped their fourth consecutive game. Emotions were understandably high postgame in the Dallas locker room as Doncic received a shower by his teammates, though he was not drenched in beer as he may have hope.
The 23-year-old led an improbable comeback with the Mavs down nine points with just 44.6 seconds remaining. New York sent Doncic to the free-throw line with a take foul, leading 115-112 with 4.2 seconds remaining.
Luka Doncic continued his phenomenal season with an awe-inspiring display Thursday night
Doncic made the first, then — after intentionally missing the second — chased down the carom tipped backwards from a scrum and hoisted up a buzzer-beater to knot the score at 115.
‘I’m tired as hell. I need a recovery beer,’ said Doncic in a postgame interview on Bally Sports Southwest.
‘I just threw it up, I was kind of lucky…We were down, we came back, this is an amazing feeling.’
In overtime, Dallas did not yield a field goal until more than four minutes in and after building a five-point lead. Doncic and Spencer Dinwiddie put the game away with foul shooting down the stretch.
The extension New York’s losing streak was capped off with a record of their own. According to ESPN’s Tim MacMahon, teams leading by nine points with 35 seconds or less in regulation were 13,884-0 in the previous 20 NBA seasons.
Doncic was drenched postgame as he entered the victorious Dallas Mavericks locker room
Doncic’s final two free throws bumped him to his final scoring total, making him the first player in NBA history with a triple-double of 60 points and at least 20 rebounds. His was the first 50-point and 20-rebound triple-double since Wilt Chamberlain in 1968.
He is just the seventh player to record a 50-point tripe-double in the NBA, while the Slovenian 23-year-old becomes the youngest to achieve the feat, taking the record from one of the all-time greats, Wilt Chamberlain.
For Doncic, Tuesday marked his second game with at least 50 points in the last three outings — while the Knicks gave up at least 51 points to one player for the second time in four games.
Doncic was in an understandably jovial mood following his historic performance vs. NY Knicks
New York’s losing streak, which reached four games with Tuesday’s loss, began December 21 when the Knicks gave up 51 points to Toronto’s Pascal Siakam.
The loss in Dallas also marked the Knicks’ second in the current skid when New York coughed up a lead in the closing seconds of the fourth quarter, giving up the winning basket to Chicago’s DeMar DeRozan last Friday.
Doncic’s historic performance overshadowed a career-best night from New York’s Quentin Grimes, who scored a personal-high 33 points and matched his career high with seven made 3-pointers.
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