Mavs Star Luka Doncic Reaches Many Milestones with 60-Point Triple-Double

Luka Doncic put on a performance never before seen in an NBA game on Tuesday night as the Dallas Mavericks pulled off a miracle comeback win against the New York Knicks.

Dalton Trigg | Dec 28, 2022

"I'm tired as hell. I need a recovery beer."

Those were the words of an exhausted-but-exuberant Luka Doncic after the Dallas Mavericks pulled off a literal miracle victory against the New York Knicks at American Airlines Center on Tuesday night. In the last 20 years, NBA teams that were down nine points with at least 35 seconds remaining had a record of 0-13,884.

You can make that 1-13,884 after Dallas overcame a 112-103 deficit with less than 30 seconds left in regulation. The Mavs ultimately won in overtime, 126-121 thanks in large part to Doncic’s unbelievable, historic 60-point triple-double. His final stat line included 60 points on 21-31 shooting to go with 21 rebounds and 10 assists.

“I mean, that was pretty impressive,” said Doncic of his team’s improbable comeback. “The whole team just kept going. [Teams were] 0-13,000+ games and with 35 seconds [left]. That’s impressive. Everybody just kept it together. We believed. That’s what I will say to that.”

When we say Doncic’s historic, we mean it. Here’s a list of all the milestones Doncic reached on Tuesday night, per Mavs PR:

Set a new career-high of 60 points (51 vs. LAC, 2/10/22)
Set a new career-high of 21 rebounds (20 at SAC, 8/4/20)
Set a new Dallas Mavericks scoring record (53, Dirk Nowitzki vs. HOU, 12/2/04 in OT)
Tied the Dallas Mavericks FGM record (21-33, Mark Aguirre vs. DEN, 3/24/84)
Set a new American Airlines Center scoring record (57, Steph Curry, 2/6/21)
Recorded the first 60-point, 20-rebound, 10-assist game in NBA history
Recorded the second 60-point triple-double in NBA history (James Harden vs. ORL, 60p-10r-11a, 1/30/18)
Set a new Dallas Mavericks record for 50-point games (3rd of career)
Became the first Maverick with 50+ points twice in 3-game span (50 at HOU, 12/23)
Became the sixth player in NBA history to record 6-or-more 40-point triple-doubles (Oscar Robertson, Harden, Westbrook, Chamberlain, LeBron James)
Joined Nikola Jokić (7) atop the 2022-23 triple-double leaderboard

"I know, everybody is still in shock,” said coach Jason Kidd. “[Luka] always does [something new]. He's special. The history of the game is written by the players and it was written again tonight for a player – Luka – doing something that's never been done before.

“It's hard to do – there've been some great players before him. As we were walking in, Elgin Baylor, I think Wilt [Chamberlain] – he was in that class and then he separated himself and made his own class, which is pretty cool."

Go enjoy that recovery beer, Mr. Doncic. We might need a few ourselves after witnessing that performance.

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Published Dec 28, 2022

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.