After fighting through a thrilling triple-double showdown that just slipped out of his reach, Luka Doncic was bound and determined to avenge last month’s overtime loss to LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers on Sunday afternoon.
Thanks to a huge second-half run, that’s exactly what he did.
Doncic and the Dallas Mavericks flew past the Lakers 114-100 on Sunday at the Staples Center, snapping Los Angeles’ impressive 10-game win streak.
“That was a very intense game from the very beginning,” Mavericks coach Rick Carlisle said. “I thought that we made good adjustments as a team.