Luka Dončić

The star point guard erupted for a 53-point outburst against Detroit, and had a message for the Pistons' bench afterward.

The other two are Michael Jordan (17) and LeBron James (five), Doncic poured in 53 points on 17-for-24 shooting from the field as Dallas pulled off a 111–105 home win. Throughout his electrifying young NBA career, Luka Doncic has never been shy.

Luka Doncic reached the 50-point mark for the fourth time this season, pouring in 53 points to carry the Dallas Mavericks past the visiting Detroit Pistons ...

Dallas then opened the fourth with a 9-2 spurt, including six points from Dinwiddie. Detroit actually had a five-point lead with 3:34 left in the first but Doncic continued to fill up the nets. Bogdanovic had a personal 7-0 spurt late in the half to give his club an eight-point lead. Doncic then brought his team back into the game. The Mavericks scored the first 10 points but the Pistons settled in after a timeout. Bogdanovic made it 74-63 midway through the quarter.

Luka Doncic made a detour toward the Detroit Pistons' bench during a timeout with 7.1 seconds remaining in the Dallas Mavericks' 111-105 win, ESPN reports. He ...

I love the way he plays, the way he carries himself, and I love the way our guys responded. He was coming off the only scoreless performance in his career, having exited Thursday’s win over the “I mean, since the first quarter, he was chirping,” Doncic said after his NBA-leading fourth 50-point performance of the season. “It’s good if that’s what he needs to get himself going and tell himself. From the first quarter, he was chirping. As the discussion ended, Doncic laughed and cracked a big smile.

The Mavericks (27-25) moved into sixth place in the Western Conference, a half-game ahead of the four-team play-in positions. Bojan Bogdanovic had 29 points and ...

Spin.ph Mavericks: Kidd said the team expects a medical update later this week on starting center Christian Wood, who missed his sixth consecutive game with a broken left thumb. It was his fourth quarter with at least 20 points this season, tying Brooklyn guard Kyrie Irving for most in the NBA. Detroit led by 11 in the third quarter and 84-83 going into the fourth. Doncic was 14 of 18 at the free throw line while Detroit went 19 for 27. "We thought Bojan got fouled," Detroit coach Dwane Casey said. Doncic's final basket was a shot that bounced off the front rim and dropped in to put Dallas ahead 109-105 with 46 seconds left. "I don't want to say the words. Second in the NBA going in with an average of 33 points per game, he returned after spraining his left ankle three-plus minutes into last Thursday's game at Phoenix and then missing Saturday's game at Utah. "From the first quarter, he was just chirping," Doncic said. It gets me going, for sure." I have no problem with that.

Good morning, I'm Dan Gartland. I'm still salty that the one time I went to a Mavericks game, Luka Dončić was injured. In today's SI:AM:.

Pistons assistant coach Jerome Allen learned the hard way Monday night that talking trash with Mavericks star Luke Doncic during the game is a very bad ...

Allen, who left the Celtics in 2021 to join the Pistons, probably shouldn't chirp Doncic like that anymore. Mavericks point guard Luka Doncic claimed Allen started chirping him in the first quarter. Doncic's 50-point game was the fifth of his career.