'Not normal' NBA ace creates 'insane' history

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Include the other rebound, oregon don't.

It doesn't truly substance with Luka Doncic's logic-defying stat enactment that had existent and erstwhile NBA stars, on with existent and erstwhile teammates, buzzing connected Twitter.

Doncic had 60 points, a Dallas franchise record, a career-best 21 rebounds and 10 assists successful a chaotic 126-121 overtime triumph against the New York Knicks connected Wednesday (AEDT).

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Set up by his improbable tying jumper successful the last 2nd of regularisation disconnected his intentionally missed escaped throw, Doncic had the archetypal 60-20-10 triple-double successful NBA history.

Plenty of peers noticed, including erstwhile European sidekick Kristaps Porzingis, traded to Washington past play to interruption up the pairing that ne'er truly clicked arsenic planned.

Porzingis referenced their shared playing roots successful Spain, with a tweet successful Spanish that translated to “This feline is not normal".

And the Latvian skipped that extraneous rebound connected a nighttime erstwhile helium could observe a double-double of his ain with 24 points and 10 rebounds arsenic the Wizards bushed Philadelphia.

Doncic broke Dirk Nowitzki's franchise grounds of 53 points from 2004 2 days aft the Mavericks unveiled a statue of the retired German prima extracurricular the arena.

Nowitzki is the highest-scoring foreign-born subordinate successful NBA past (sixth overall). The 23-year-old All-Star could clasp that rubric immoderate day.

“It'll beryllium different statue successful Dallas,” NBA Hall of Famer Kevin Garnett wrote connected Twitter.

Kyle Kuzma included the other rebound portion calling Doncic's numbers “INSANE!!!!!!!”.

Brooklyn prima Kevin Durant felt the request for an expletive successful comparing Doncic's nighttime to video-game numbers.

Mavericks proprietor Mark Cuban said he'd ne'er spot different nighttime similar it, and teammate Christian Wood, whose three-pointer sparked the rally from 9 points down successful the last 30 seconds of regulation, said helium was sending a “GOAT” to Doncic's workplace successful his autochthonal Slovenia.

“Everybody is inactive successful shock,” manager Jason Kidd said aft the game.

"The past of the crippled is written by the players and it was written again contiguous for a subordinate — Luka — doing thing that’s ne'er been done before.”

After grabbing the escaped shot connected a rebound and shooting the three-metre jumper successful 1 question to level the scores successful regulation, the 23-year-old danced astir portion waving his arms arsenic the thinned-out assemblage expecting a nonaccomplishment celebrated wildly.

It was 115-115 with 1.0 seconds remaining.

"A batch of radical asked maine astir this backmost successful the locker room, and I said I thought we won it," Doncic said.

"That's wherefore I went to the assemblage similar this. I thought we won the game, and past I spot it's tied. I was like, 'oof'."

Dallas was down 9 with 33 seconds near successful regularisation earlier getting adjacent successful a back-and-forth series capped by Doncic grazing the rim and hitting the backboard with the intentional miss.

The young Slovenian had his seventh triple-double and the league's highest-scoring show of the season.

The Mavericks moved 3 games implicit .500 with a 4th consecutive victory, some marks matching their play bests.

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