Brad Townsend
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Luka Doncic takes the court and immediately spots a VIP and friend across the court . . .
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Luka to me on MIP voting: “Who votes in this?”
Me: “Well, 100 of us, including me.”
@luka7doncic
: “Take me off the list and put
@Devonte4Graham
on there. I don’t deserve to be on there.”
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Only
@russwest44
would be able to truly confirm this, and I doubt he will, but I'm told that he left a $8,000 tip for the Grand Floridian housekeepers when the
@HoustonRockets
left the NBA bubble.
Moreover, I'm told, he left the room virtually spotless.
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On TNT, Kenny Smith says that Chris Paul’s mother, Robin, reached out to explain what happened with the young Dallas fan. She said the fan was obviously inebriated and kept tapping her on the shoulder and wishing her happy Mother’s Day, even after she politely asked him to stop.
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.
@luka7doncic
meets 22-month-old Slovenian boy, Kris, for whom Luka helped raise more than $2.2 million so he could get medical treatment at UCLA for a rare muscle condition. I spoke to Luka’s mom and will have more on this story at
@SportsDayDFW
.
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That VIP is Florentino Perez, president of Real Madrid, the Spanish club for which Doncic began his pro career.
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Rondo came off the court ticked off. Looked like he yelled at Ty Lue, now he's yelling at Ibaka, who is yelling back.
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At the end of what might be his last pregame media availability, Gregg Popovich asked if any of the reporters had brought guns into the arena, then had so e things to say about lack of gun control regulation in Tennessee and, well, everywhere in the U.S.
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@luka7doncic
asked that I make sure to publicize this: “The best team won today. Real Madrid, baby!”
Oh, and Mavs won, too.
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Doncic says he watched part of the Iowa-LSU women’s game last night. Asked whether Caitlin Clark reminds him of him, he smiled and said she’s more like Steph Curry. “She shoots it better than me, that’s for sure.
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Doncic on the Paul George jersey swap thing: "I did send one after, in the locker room." So you guys can calm down. He didn't diss George.
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Doncic says he has a horned toad as a pet. Why? “Because I’m Texan.”
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Rick Carlisle: “I’m happy for Fizdale to be out of that terrible mess that he had nothing to do with.”
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It’s official: Mavs are prepping for the Spurs, specifically 7-4 rookie Victor Wembanyama, with God Shammgod playing the role of Wemby. “Wemby! Wemby” he hollered while going out to defend Irving with his artificial Wemby length.
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Doncic: "I like it when people trash-talk to me. It gets me going. It's fun."
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I've rarely if ever said an NBA game, especially a playoff game, was over with 7:29 left in the second quarter.
This one, however, is. Clippers 54, Mavs 33.
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Kidd: “A lot of people had this as a blowout. They were right. But they didn’t have us as the winning team.”
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Mavs bandwagon probably getting pretty, pretty heavy right now.
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Kyrie Irving seems bemused by Mavs’ traditional post-shootaround ritual.
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Doncic on goals going forward: “My only goal is to win the championship.”
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Dirk was the last Maverick to leave the lockerroom. He signed autographs and posed for photos with the lockerroom attendants, “If this is it, I’m going to miss you guys.”
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Dereck Lively II says he leaned on the voice of his mom, Kathy, as he made those clutch free-throws. Read more about how Lively foiled OKC’s strategy:
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Irving says he had to fight back tears when asked to give an impromptu speech in the locker room after the game. Irving played in 3 straight East finals with Cleveland (and NBA Finals) but this is his first conference finals berth as an active player since 2017. He was inactive
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Story has been told before, but never gets old.
2010-11 season, N.O. police captain Andre Menzies tells
@mcuban
, “You guys are going to win it all.”
Cuban: “OK.”
Menzies: “If you win it all, do I get a ring?”
8 years later Menzies still proudly wearing his $140K title ring.
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DDD (Dirk, DSJ, Doncic) tale of the tape:
@swish41
: 40 years, 3 days old
@luka7doncic
/
@Dennis1SmithJr
: 39 years, 323 days old
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Don't mess with Doncic. Entire Mavericks team, heck, half the organization rushed to his defense.
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Asked a Mavs source: "How is this not tampering?"
Response: "It is 100% a violation."
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Major announcement: Tonight on TNT's Inside the NBA, before, during and after the Nuggets-Wolves broadcast, Shaq will have an extra-special substitute in-studio.
He is none other than Dirk Nowitzki. And we all know he will be tremendous.
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"Thank you for my bonus, fellas," Kyrie Irving said to teammates as he settled on the bench to watch the final seconds of the Mavericks' win.
"Kyrie, what bonus?" called Mark Cuban, knowing full well that Irving gets a $1 million bonus for Dallas reaching 50 wins.
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Kyrie Irving, who won gold as a member of the 2016 Team USA in Rio, on being left off the ‘24 team after being listed as a finalist.
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Reggie Bullock got a text from his grandfather, a former boxer, saying “You know what to do when your back is against the wall: Come out swinging.”
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After their first playoff series together, Kyrie Irving speaks about his partnership with Luka Doncic.
“Mi Hermano,” he called him.
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First it was “Chris Paul had a quad injury,” now it’s “there was a COVID outbreak.” Soon we’ll be reading that a plague of locusts descended on the Suns’ locker room before Game 7.
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Dinwiddie to Brunson as he entered the interview room: "So clean! You lookin' like you're about to get paid!"
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Mavs owner
@mcuban
, Dwight Powell, Jalen Brunson, Maxi Kleber and Justin Jackson at today’s
#GeorgeFloyd
vigil outside Dallas Police headquarters.
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No offense to Ja Morant, but this postseason so far are showing he's nowhere close to Playoff Luka level, no matter how All-NBA voting might turn out.
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Here’s my takeaway from Doncic’s comments: If no one is going to try to play defense in All-Star games, why should he play hard on offense?
Honestly have never thought of it that way and, you know, he has a point.
I asked Doncic if he’s content to defer to older All-Stars and why he tends to be unassertive offensively in these games.
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Doncic said he would like to know when the franchise is making significant moves, though he doesn't want to be overly involved. He said GM Nico Harrison tried to call and tell him about the Porzingis trade, "But I was taking a nap."
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“This team is special. We’ve only been together five months. I’ve been having a lot of fun with this team.”
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Rick Carlisle wearing the suit he wore on June 12, 2011, the night Mavs won title. Had’t worn it since, never cleaned, champagne-soaked. Lucky penny he found on street that day still in pants pocket.
“I always knew there would be an appropriate day to wear it again.”
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Woj says on ESPN that there's "no belief" there will be a Leonard decision today, but either "sometime tomorrow, July 4 or maybe it could even go another day. Kawhi Leonard is taking time here. The decks have been cleared . . . The whole basketball world is waiting . . "
Yep
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Current Kemba Walker destination likelihood order, per league source:
1. Boston
2. Charlotte
3. Dallas (definitely in the mix, with Lakers)
Somewhere down the line: New York
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Thought the Mavericks should have made a run at Christian Wood in the summer of '20, but getting 26-year-old Wood now for the No. 26 pick and 4 seldom-used players is a home run by Nico Harrison, filling Dallas' biggest offseason need.
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Doncic is still sick, didn’t do much in shootaround. He has been sick for nearly a week and admits that if this was a regular season game he probably wouldn’t play.
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NBA announces that Luka Doncic is Western Conference Player of the Week.
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"I think in the first half we were bullshitting around," Doncic said on TNT, before catching himself and apologizing. No apology necessary, Luka.
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Asked to share his favorite Boban story, Jalen Brunson says, “No joke, the other day, he dunked, then jumped.”
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Irving on his postgame embrace with Doncic. He said Doncic told him, “I’m tired, man.”
Irving: “At the end of the day, you just want to give your brother a hug.”
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JaVale McGee: "In hindsight that's what movies are made of, not playing the whole season. Then coming down to you hitting those two free-throws for the win. Unfortunately I missed one of them and it went into OT. Yeah, that movie's going straight to DVD. It's not coming out."
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Doncic said he fed off the heckling of fans, including “one grown-ass man” who was talking “about my family.”
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Doncic says he’s sorry to lose Finney-Smith and Dinwiddie, but the opportunity to play with Irving obviously excites him.
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Doncic: "Having Kyrie here has been a blessing. Obviously on the court everybody knows what kind of player he is. Off the court he helps me a lot, not just me but the whole team. He knows how to win the championship. He's a very humble guy. Great guy.
"On the court and off the
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Kyrie Irving states his case for Luka Doncic winning MVP.
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LeBron on Doncic/Porzingis: “Great duo.”
Me: “What makes them great?”
LeBron: “Do you think they’re great?”
Me: “So far, but your opinion matters a lot more than mine.”
LeBron: “You’re The Dallas Morning News. Yours’ should matter more than mine.”
See? Subscribe
@dallasnews
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Many, many Mavericks and
@DereckLively
fans have asked, so here is some information provided by the Mavericks:
Dereck has asked that, in lieu of flowers or other gifts in memory of his mom, Kathy Drysdale, donations be made to Annie’s Place, a local nonprofit that supports
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Derrick Jones on the challenge of guarding Clippers HOFers:
���I fear no man.”
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Mark Cuban stiffens COVID-19 stance: ‘If you work for me, I require my employees to be vaccinated’
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As Luka Doncic sat down behind a microphone and waited for question from reporters, his eyes briefly bulged and he said loudly enough for the mic to pick it up: "Forty-two?"
Yep, Utah shot 42 free-throws to Dallas' 23.
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Are the Mavs going to continue uptempo when Doncic returns?
“Yeah,” Josh Green said. “We’ve talked about it as a team and Luka’s totally onboard.”
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If you’ve ever wondered whether Doncic is as big as an NFL tight end, the answer is “bigger.”
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Suns fans, take a bow. It’s pretty clear now that you played a role in your team’s playoff demise. Virtually every Maverick player, coach and Mark Cuban has mentioned in the postseason aftermath how motivating those “Suns in Four” chants after Game 2 were.
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It’s almost as if the Pistons said, “Sure, we’ll help you screw over Dallas.”
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Finney-Smith: “When I had 5 three, Luka said, ‘“You’re about to get some more.’ When LD says you’re going to get more threes, I figure you’re going to get ‘em.”
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Source close to
@kporzee
tells me his priorities are: 1. Get longterm deal done with Dallas ASAP. 2. Spend a big chunk of the summer training with
@luka7doncic
.
Clearly he’s all in on Dallas and Luka. Why wouldn’t he be?
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Doncic was asked whether, given his pull with the franchise, he could do something about the AAC roof. "Ask Dirk. He has more memories here."
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Luka Doncic clearly was laboring after the game. I asked him during the postgame presser what was hurting as he walked off: “Everything,” he said. “I’m just battling out there.”
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Not sure why Green didn't get his second tech there. Oh, I remember. Because he's Draymond Green and he knows he won't get tossed for that.
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NBA says it has rescinded Luka Doncic’s technical foul from last night, so he will not be suspended from Sunday’s regular-season finale against San Antonio.
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For four months Mavs couldn’t win w/o Luka Doncic. Now they’ve won 3 straight w/o him.
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Asked if he helped recruit OBJ, Doncic smiled and said, "I tried. After the game I saw him, so hopefully. I can't say nothing, but . . . go Cowboys."
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Doncic's NBA high is 46 points, twice, doubt he gets there tonight, either, but remember FIBA games are 8 minutes shorter than NBA games.
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Oh, boy. L2M report says Donovan Mitchell should have been called for offensive foul against Dwight Powell when he drove into the lane with 33 seconds left. He missed the shot, rebounded his miss and converted a 3-point play.
In other words, score should have remained 99-95.
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Doncic says “I like the feeling, the butterflies you get,” before big games, including potential elimination games.
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Dallas Mavericks have parted ways with Haralabos Voulgaris
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Jason Kidd on the passing of Kathy Drysdale, Dereck Lively II’s mom. Lively actually made a point to come to shootaround this morning to address his “second family,” before Kathy’s passing.
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Irving said he was playing pickup in his New Jersey hometown when his agent called, saying the Mavericks acquired him. He said his eyes immediately lit up, thinking of his relationships with Nico Harrison and Jason Kidd and how great it felt that Dallas wants him.
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Doncic’s initial postgame comments were interrupted by an, uh, interesting sound.
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Speculation among some in Mavs organization is the reason Dallas was fined yesterday for its "bench decorum" in the G7 win in Phoenix is that several Suns employees were seated behind Dallas' bench and didn't like players standing the whole game. In other words, sour grapes.
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Jason Kidd: “No matter how this thing ends, we’ve had a hell of a season. And we don’t believe it’s going to end tonight.”
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Rick Carlisle: "I just want to go on record saying that I miss
@ESefko
very badly. He is a wonderful man of the highest integrity. It's just one of the sad things that is happening in the media. That's a great man and it was a privilege to work with him for 11 years."
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Unconfirmed, but heard a rumbling that Dinwiddie plans to attend tonight's game, which, if true, is . . . interesting.
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After listening to Jason Kidd, Luka Doncic and other Mavericks say during postgame remarks that no one picked them to win this series, I reminded Doncic that, in fact, I picked Dallas to win in six games.
So as far as I'm concerned, the Mavs underachieved.
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Charles Barkley on
@luka7doncic
: “That’s a bad white boy . . . we’re getting really close to little black kids in the ‘hood wearing his jersey.”
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