A new book chronicles the Slovenian\u2019s rise with the Dallas Mavericks, his extraordinary skills and the fallout from a trade that shook the NBA<\/p>\n
Seventy-three points. That was Luka Don\u010di\u0107\u2019s total<\/a> when he led the Dallas Mavericks<\/a> to a victory over the Atlanta Hawks last season. He wasn\u2019t the only NBA<\/a> player to have an explosion on offense that season \u2013 think Joel Embiid or Karl-Anthony Towns<\/a>. And the league subsequently decided to change officiating to favor more physical play that would presumably cut down on high offensive output.<\/p>\n That\u2019s how Tim MacMahon sees it. The veteran ESPN writer has covered Don\u010di\u0107 since the Slovenian\u2019s arrival in Dallas as one of the most heralded European talents in NBA history. He saw Don\u010di\u0107 live up to his billing, leading the Mavericks to the Western Conference finals in 2022 and the NBA finals last year. And he knew that even a change in rules wouldn\u2019t stop Don\u010di\u0107\u2019s stepback three.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A new book chronicles the Slovenian\u2019s rise with the Dallas Mavericks, his extraordinary skills and the fallout from a trade that shook the NBA Seventy-three points. That was Luka Don\u010di\u0107\u2019s total when he led the Dallas Mavericks to a victory over the Atlanta Hawks last season. He wasn\u2019t the only NBA player to have an … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}