Mavs’ Luka Doncic makes first-team All-NBA for third consecutive year in historic fashion

Luka Doncic’s pregame warm-up for Match 4 of the Western Convention finals included a shock:

Yet another initial-crew All-NBA honor.

The NBA announced Doncic gained to start with-crew standing for the 3rd consecutive yr less than an hour just before the Mavericks’ tipoff towards the Golden State Warriors on Tuesday evening.

Becoming a member of Doncic in the league’s best two-guard, two-forward, one particular-middle lineup: Phoenix’s Devin Booker, Milwaukee’s Giannis Antetokounmpo, Boston’s Jayson Tatum and Denver’s Nikola Jokic.

Doncic matched Kevin Durant, Tim Duncan and Max Zaslofsky as the only gamers to garner a few All-NBA Very first Team accolades just before age 24 and joined Larry Chook, George Gervin and Duncan as the only players to make at minimum a few All-NBA teams in their very first four seasons because the ABA/NBA merger (1976-77), according to the Mavericks’ PR department.

All-NBA voting considers just normal-year figures, and Doncic finished his fourth campaign amid the NBA’s very best.

He averaged 28.4 details, 9.1 rebounds, 8.7 assists and 1.2 steals in a job-large 35.4 minutes in 65 game titles. Between league leaders, Doncic ranked third in scoring, fifth in assists and 19th in rebounds, ending best 25 in all categories for the third consecutive year.

Doncic, nevertheless, will be most happy of the Mavericks’ playoff operate, snapping the franchise’s 10 years-very long very first-spherical skid with an upset operate to their initially convention finals given that the 2011 championship.

About a fifty percent-hour following the All-NBA announcement, Doncic took the American Airlines Centre court with the intent to prolong his standout period even extended.