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Luka Doncic celebrates his 25th birthday with an unprecedented triple-double in the NBA, confessing that he is “old”

Sport — 03/29/2024

Today is a special day for Luka Doncic. The Slovenian star playing for the Dallas Mavericks club in the NBA turned 25, celebrated his birthday with a victory over the Toronto Raptors and achieved a special triple-double in tournament history. 

In 36 minutes of play, Luka scored 30 points with 16 assists and 11 rebounds to complete his 11th triple-double this season (67th in his career), making a major contribution to the Dallas Mavericks’ 136-125 victory. against the Toronto Raptors.

This helped Luka Doncic become the first player in NBA history to achieve a triple-double with at least 30 points on his birthday .  Speaking of scoring, the All-Star player born in 1999 currently has a streak of 9 consecutive games scoring at least 25 points per game (including 2 times reaching the 40 point mark).

Luka Doncic had 9 consecutive games scoring over 25 points, and also pocketed a triple-double of 30 points on his birthday.

Overcome “king” LeBron James

On a historic day, Luka Doncic also conveniently surpassed LeBron James in the above special set of indicators. This is the 39th triple-double of 30 points in Doncic’s career, helping him surpass the Los Angeles Lakers star (38 triple-doubles of 30 points) to climb to third place all-time.

In front of Luka are two true triple-double machines including Russell Westbrook (48) and Oscar Robertson (106). But with his current upswing in form, Doncic will likely soon usurp Westbrook to take second place.

Luka Doncic surpasses LeBron James to climb to 3rd place on the list of players with the most 30-point triple-doubles of all time

Besides the triple-double statistics, Luka Doncic also became the 4th player ever to have a total of 75 points, 30 assists and 20 rebounds in 2 matches. 

This information was posted by ESPN Stats & Info, putting Doncic in the same club as three legends: Pete Maravich, Wilt Chamberlain and Oscar Robertson. 

What’s more impressive is that Luka achieved the above total index in 2 matches played on two consecutive days (back-to-back) and both took place away from home in Cleveland and then Toronto.