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Dallas Mavs Highlight with Luka Doncic & Kyrie Irving Most-Viewed Play in NBA Season

During a Dallas Mavericks win over the Utah Jazz in March, an exciting sequence between Luka Doncic, Kyrie Irving and Derrick Jones Jr. ended up being the most viewed video on NBA social media for the 2023-24 regular season.

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Out of all the exciting highlights the 2023-24 NBA regular season produced, the Dallas Mavericks provided the one that got the most views across social media.

During the Mavs' 113-97 blowout win over the Utah Jazz on March 21, there was a sequence where Luka Doncic dove on the floor to get a steal, then passed it ahead in transition to Kyrie Irving, who threw a lob pass behind him for a thunderous Derrick Jones Jr. dunk.

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According to NBA PR, it was the most-viewed play of the season, as the highlight racked up 250 million views across social and digital media platforms.

That play is a microcosm of the energy and chemistry the Mavs played with over the last two months of the regular season. Dallas won 16 of its final 17 games that both Doncic and Irving played in. With a highly-anticipated first-round series against the star-studded Los Angeles Clippers set to begin on Sunday, the Mavs hope that hot streak can roll over into the playoffs.

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Dalton Trigg
DALTON TRIGG

Dalton Trigg is the Editor-In-Chief for Dallas Basketball, as well as the Executive Editor overseeing Inside The Rockets, Inside The Spurs, All Knicks, and The Magic Insider. He is the founder and host for the Mavs Step Back Podcast, which is a proud part of the Blue Wire podcast network. Trigg graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi’s College of Business and Economic Development with a bachelor’s degree in entrepreneurship in 2016. After spending a few years with multiple Dallas Mavericks-related blogs, including SB Nation’s Mavs Moneyball, Trigg joined DallasBasketball.com as a staff writer in 2018 and never looked back. At the start of 2022, he was promoted to the EIC title he holds now. Through the years, Trigg has conducted a handful of high-profile one-on-one interviews to add to his resume — in both writing and podcasting. Some of his biggest interviews have been with Mavs owner Mark Cuban, Mavs GM Nico Harrison, now-retired legend Dirk Nowitzki and many other current/former players and team staffers. Many of those interviews and other articles by Trigg have been aggregated by other well-known sports media websites, such as Yahoo Sports, CBS Sports, Bleacher Report and others. You can find Trigg on all major social media channels, but his most prevalent platform is on Twitter. Whether it’s posting links to his DBcom work, live-tweeting Mavs games or merely giving his opinions on things going on with Dallas and the rest of the NBA, the daily content never stops rolling. For any inquiries, please email Dalton@MavsStepBack.com.

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