The Luka Doncic Legend Grows
The Lead
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🗓️ 25 August 2020
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Dallas Mavericks star Luka Doncic put in a performance for the ages on Sunday. After injuring his ankle two days earlier, the 21-year-old wrapped up the ankle and put his team on his back, and won the game on a series of clutch shots in overtime. The Athletic's Tim Cato, who has closely chronicled Doncic's career, joins us to explain why no one should have been surprised by the superlative performance, and why it's okay to start comparing Luka to some all-time greats.
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| 0:30.0 | On Sunday with a badly injured ankle, Luca Donchage put in a legendary performance. |
| 0:40.0 | Donchage pulls up three pointer. |
| 0:42.0 | Bang, bang, it's good. |
| 0:45.0 | Donchage wins the game at the buzzer. |
| 0:48.0 | Today, the athletics Tim Cato on what the game revealed about Luca and how we should be |
| 0:53.3 | talking about the 21-year-old star. |
| 0:56.0 | It's intimidating to refer to anyone while using names like LeBron James and Michael Jordan. |
| 1:03.0 | And Luca isn't those players yet. |
| 1:06.0 | But I think it's okay to say that he is on that trajectory. |
| 1:10.0 | If you don't believe, you shouldn't be here. |
| 1:12.0 | But we believe since the beginning, we're here tight too. |
| 1:17.0 | From Wondery and the Athletic, I'm Andres Calto. |
| 1:19.0 | And I'm Cabee the Davidson. |
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