Los Angeles Lakers superstar Luka Doncic has been one of the best overall players so far at EuroBasket 2025. He scored 34 and 39 points in Slovenia’s first two games of the group stages, respectively, but both were losses. In Slovenia’s first win of the tournament on Sunday, however, Doncic made history in multiple ways.
His first piece of history involved finishing with 26 points, 10 rebounds and 11 assists, a triple-double. This statline is nothing out of the ordinary for Doncic in the NBA, but at FIBA EuroBasket, that type of production is almost unheard of. In fact, he’s just the fifth player in EuroBasket history to do so.
He joins Stoijko Vrankovic (1993), Toni Kukoc (1995), Rares Mandache (2013) and Mateusz Ponitka (2022) as the only players to have at least 10 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists in EuroBasket competition.
Doncic also reached 400 career points at EuroBasket, putting him on rare pace and on a short list of Slovenians in the tournament’s history. Doncic joins Goran Dragic and Jaka Lakovic as the only Slovenia to reach that milestone and at age 26, Luka became the youngest player overall since Tony Parker to do so.
Just like in the NBA, Doncic seems to always be doing something historic while on a basketball court. Here, every bit of it was needed as Slovenia secured their first win of the group stage and climbed all the way to second in the Group D standings, prior to some other games ending.
Luka’s focus is almost certainly on leading his team to at least the knockout rounds of the tournament. However, getting these accolades along the way surely means something of value to him, especially while representing his home country. More importantly though is Doncic appears to be in the best shape of his life and is playing extremely well as a result.
Derek Fisher gives Luka Doncic advice
There is no franchise like the Lakers as the expectations they have each year are to win championships. Coming from Dallas, Luka Doncic has been to the NBA Finals, although he has not yet gotten over the hump.
Still just 26-years-old, Doncic will have plenty of opportunities to reach the mountaintop in the NBA and win it all with the Lakers. Someone who experienced plenty of winning in L.A. was Derek Fisher as he won five rings during his time with the organization. He offered advice to Doncic as he begins a new chapter leading the Lakers, where expectations will always be sky high.
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