Luka Dončić Defends Terrible Shot Selection By Live-Tweeting During NBA All-Star Game

The Mavs star trolled a fan during the All-Star Game on Sunday night.
Luka Dončić Defends Terrible Shot Selection By Live-Tweeting During NBA All-Star Game
Luka Dončić Defends Terrible Shot Selection By Live-Tweeting During NBA All-Star Game /
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This year’s NBA All-Star Game featured one of the most defensively lax performances the sport has ever seen, making for what many fans on Twitter complained to be a meaningless and unwatchable game of basketball. 

As it turns out, the All-Star Game's finest moment may have come off the court, when Dallas Mavericks star Luka Dončić personally responded to one fan's harsh tweet during Sunday night's matchup.

Late in the second quarter, a fan tweeted about how one of Dončić’s long-range shots—from behind the half-court line—may be “the worst shot selection in all star game history.”

Dončić took an analytics approach in his sassy retort, saying he was simply going for a 2-for-1 with the clock on his side at the end of the first half.

NBA All-Star Games have historically been high-scoring matchups, and this year is no exception. With both teams stacked from top to bottom with the league’s most athletically and technically gifted players, what some hoped to be a competitive rivalry for the ages has more or less turned into a backyard chuck-a-roo.

At least Dončić is keeping a bit of gamesmanship in mind.


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Kristen Wong
KRISTEN WONG

Kristen Wong is a staff writer on the Breaking and Trending News team at Sports Illustrated. She has been a sports journalist since 2020. Before joining SI in November 2023, Wong covered four NFL teams as an associate editor with the FanSided NFL Network and worked as a staff writer for the brand’s flagship site. Outside of work, she has dreams of running her own sporty dive bar.