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Luka Doncic scored a career-high 73 points (25-33 FG, 15-16 FT, 8-13 3PT), along with 10 rebounds, and 7 assists as the Dallas Mavericks defeated the Atlanta Hawks, 148-143. Trae Young led the Hawks with 30 points and 11 assists. The Mavericks snap a 3-game losing streak to improve to 25-20 as the Hawks move to 18-27.
Luka Doncic is the fourth player (seventh instance) to record 73 or more points in a game, joining:
Wilt Chamberlain – 4x (100, 78, 73 2x)
Kobe Bryant – 1x (81 points)
David Thompson – 1x (73 points)
Luka Doncic tied Wilt Chamberlain and David Thompson for the fourth-most points in a game in NBA history with his performance tonight.
Wilt Chamberlain – 03.02.62, PHI v NY: 100 points
Kobe Bryant – 01.22.06, LAL v TOR: 81 points
Wilt Chamberlain – 12.08.61, PHI v LA: 78 points
David Thompson – 04.09.78, DEN v DET – 73 points
Wilt Chamberlain – 11.16.72, SF v NY – 73 points
Wilt Chamberlain – 01.13.62, PHI v CHI – 73 points
Doncic is just the second player of the group to shoot over 70% from the floor in the performance and the only player to shoot 75% or better:
Doncic tonight: 73 PTS (25-33 FG, 8-13 3PT, 15-16 FT (75.8%)
Thompson on 04.09.78 v DET: 73 PTS on 28-38 FG (73.7%)
Luka Doncic becomes the third player in NBA history to record 70+ points, 10+ rebounds, and 5+ assists (since 1950-51, the first season assists were fully recorded):
Luka Doncic tonight – 01.26.24: 73 points, 10 rebounds, 7 assists
Joel Embiid – 01.22.24, PHI v SA: 70 points, 18 rebounds, 5 assists
David Robinson – 04.24.94, SA v LAC: 71 points, 14 rebounds, 5 assists
With his 8 3PT FGs made on the night, Doncic is the only player to record 70+ points, 10+ rebounds, and 5+ assists with multiple 3PT FG made in a game (Embiid and Robinson both made 1 3PT FG).
Luka Doncic is the fourth player (seventh instance) to record 73 or more points in a game.
Wilt Chamberlain – 4x (100, 78, 73 2x)
Kobe Bryant – 1x (81 points)
David Thompson – 1x (73 points)
Luka Doncic tied Wilt Chamberlain and David Thompson for the fourth-most points in a game in NBA history with his performance tonight.
Wilt Chamberlain – 03.02.62, PHI v NY: 100 points
Kobe Bryant – 01.22.06, LAL v TOR: 81 points
Wilt Chamberlain – 12.08.61, PHI v LA: 78 points
David Thompson – 04.09.78, DEN v DET – 73 points
Wilt Chamberlain – 11.16.72, SF v NY – 73 points
Wilt Chamberlain – 01.13.62, PHI v CHI – 73 points
Doncic is just the second player of the group to shoot over 70% from the floor in the performance and the only player to shoot 75% or better.
50 Comments
Kobe drop 81 in atl
Luka drop 70+ in atl
Atlanta easy team to drop career high.
Lots of luca haters came from the opposite side of colour,not surprising me,,thug, thefts,robery,, this cockroach species bring destruction wherever they are,, disgusting.
I hate Luka
He's wearing the White guy T-shirt!
All respect to Jokic who is a MVP and a Champion but Luka is the greatest European to ever play and he doesn’t need hardware to prove like I’ve seen only two players with raw born gifted talents lebron and Luka
Finally, it's at 3 million 😊
25/33 fg is simply ridiculous
mvp
Easy league. Most players lack fundamentals. Defense is a joke. It’s entertainment after all.
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im huge luka fan and i dont wanna take anything away from him but this is 8minutes of the worst defence ive ever seen , this atlanta team was embarassing.
white boy could play ball beter then most avarage monkeys from nba. so good.
Jalen Johnson had a long night
No defense era
He makes it look effortless. His moves are so efficient and risk free. I think he can go on to play til 40.
Luke scoring 73 points on "African American heritage night" is so perfect. White king W 👑
Apparently he heard his son drop 70 so Papa has gotta show him how to drop a 70+ point game
chucker
Balkan guy…Dont mess with him…;)
Bruh this is who the Hawks passed up?!?
Hitting your shots is impressive but damn, the lack of defense is embarrassing
4:22 girl/guy, where you going?
Great player
Inflated stats. Water down no defense. Why I don’t even watch nba anymore. Give me 2000 nba any day of the week, twice on Sunday
its bs. No defense at all.
so ur telling me luka dropped 73 to barely beat the hawks i dirt watch this game live so i’m a lil confused was luka ball hogging the whole game or the mavs are this damn terrible and i don’t even wanna speak on the hawks defense them boys gave up after luka drop 30 in the first half😂
History in the books people will remember this
Luka had lil boosie stressin 😅😅
Luka has (imho) played the single greatest basketball game ever here…LFG! MFFL!
Best game in NBA history by an individual? Definitely better than Kobe's game, and Wilt was just dunking on 5 footers lol
I had to go back and visit this before the nba 24-25 season started.
Never forget stephen a went on tv and called this a disgrace to basketball and a layup line after just praising embiid for his 70….
he dropped 73 on a team that traded him in a draft😂
Defense is horrendous lol
Mvp?
against the team that traded him
This is last year not this year
Luka Is Dangerous Fellas !
Luka overated
what's was crazy was he had 41 in the first half and the Mavs weren't even winning smh….
One man team.
Not to take anything away from the dude but looking back at this game the hawks defence might have been the worst defence I've ever seen. Literally looks like the nba told them to allow this to happen lmao
i didn't know travels werent' called anymore
Slow and effective
This player no longer exists. It's super depressing but this dude is not the same. Letting him play through that injury last year may go down as the biggest mistake an organization has ever made because this dude has not looked 75% this good since.
Luka magic again 73 is crazy 8:10
Man I wished players back in the 1940s, 50s and 60s and 70s had 3 point line.
Luka doncic man, he’s so good. The mavs ruined him, and he’s now a shell of his former self. I’ll always be a fan though
Had the mavs ML this day for like $300 straight bet 😂😂😂
7:34 worst defense i ever seen, what was #1 on Atlanta doing, worse than All Star game defense