Mavs Star Luka Doncic: Community Assist Award Finalist; You Can Vote

The Dallas Mavericks have a superstar both on and off the court in Luka Doncic.

Dalton Trigg | May 3, 2022

When it comes to sharing with others, Dallas Mavericks superstar Luka Doncic likes to do it both on and off the court. Doncic was top-5 in assists per game in the regular season, and now, he's getting some recognition for assisting his communities in Dallas, TX and Ljubljana, Slovenia as well.

On Tuesday, the Mavs announced that Doncic has been named as a finalist for the 2021-22 NBA Cares Community Assist Award:

"Throughout the season, the NBA recognizes a player each month who best reflects the passion that the league and its players share for giving back to their communities. The NBA CAA Selection Committee will base their Seasonlong vote on the player’s continued commitment to positively impact his community through sustained efforts and difference-making work over the course of the season.

AB9DF6EA-71D8-4F90-A642-C5123045AF92 — Alex Goodlett/Getty Images

gettyimages-1240315625-594x594 — Andrew D. Bernstein/NBAE via Getty Images

gettyimages-1395068435-594x594 — Christian Petersen/Getty Images

Over the last year, Doncic has made multiple visits to see Make-A-Wish children, given holiday packages to 200 children at a Children's Hospital, refurbished two basketball courts in his hometown of Ljubljana, and made numerous donations and other gift surprises as well.

The winner of the Community Assist Award will also win a $75,000 donation to the charity of his choice. That donation number was inspired by this season being the NBA's 75th anniversary.

An NBA executive panel and fans will determine which player wins the award. If you're a Mavs fan, or even just a Doncic fan in general, you are now able to vote for him in two ways on Twitter:

Send a tweet using #NBACommunityAssist and #LukaDoncic
Retweet any tweet containing those hashtags

Fan voting is live until Saturday, May 14.

The next time you can see Doncic dishing out on-court assists again will be Wednesday night as the Mavs take on the Phoenix Suns in Game 2 of their Western Conference Semifinals series. Doncic scored a game-high 45 points in Game 1, despite the Mavs falling, 121-114.

Published May 3, 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.