The Dallas Mavericks have been dealt an early season setback concerning star participant Luka Doncic.
The staff might be with out their five-time All-Star for a minimum of one week on account of a proper wrist pressure, sources confirmed to ESPN and Shams Charania.
Doncic suffered the damage within the staff’s win over the New Orleans Pelicans on Tuesday. The staff mentioned he can be reevaluated in per week, which might see him miss the Mavericks upcoming video games towards the Denver Nuggets, Miami Warmth, Atlanta Hawks and New York Knicks.
Whereas the Mavericks are solely off to an 8-7 begin, Doncic has been sensational as ordinary. Doncic is averaging 28.1 factors, 7.6 rebounds and seven.6 assists. Although his capturing proportion (43.5 %) is down from 48.7 % a season in the past and his three-point capturing proportion of 32.4 % is worse than the 38.2 % he shot within the 2023-24 season, Doncic remains to be enjoying at a particularly excessive stage.
Doncic beforehand missed Sunday’s recreation towards the Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder with a proper knee bruise along with battling his present problem on Tuesday evening.
With their star participant out of motion in the interim, Dallas will look elsewhere for its manufacturing. Whereas Doncic leads the staff in factors per recreation (28.1), assists (7.6) and steals (1.6), Kyrie Irving (24.3 PPG) and Klay Thompson (14 PPG) are greater than able to taking on a recreation.
P.J. Washington leads the staff with 8.1 rebounds per recreation, giving the Mavericks a power beneath the basket. In Doncic’s absence towards the Thunder, Washington recorded 27 factors and 17 rebounds.
The Mavericks have loads of expertise on their roster, however shedding Doncic for a minimum of per week will problem this staff because it appears to enhance on a middling 8-7 begin to the season with out their greatest participant on the court docket.
