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Luka Doncic Congratulates Mavs Ex DeAndre Jordan Winning 1st NBA Title

Luka Doncic and DeAndre Jordan only played with each other for half a season in 2018-19, but the Dallas Mavericks star still took time to congratulate his former teammate for winning a title with the Denver Nuggets.

Dalton Trigg

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The Denver Nuggets are NBA champions after defeating the Miami Heat in five games, and there’s one former Dallas Mavericks player who finally won a ring: 15-year veteran center DeAndre Jordan.

Once upon a time, the Mavs have big championship hopes involving Jordan when they recruited him in 2015 free agency. Dallas secured a verbal commitment from Jordan to join Dirk Nowitzki, Chandler Parsons and Wesley Matthews, but he infamously changed his mind a few days later and re-signed with the Los Angeles Clippers. It was a move that made the NBA offseason seems like an episode of the Maury Show.

Three years later in the 2018 offseason, Jordan and the Mavs finally united with a one-year deal in free agency. Jordan had some nice moments with then-rookie Luka Doncic, although he wasn’t a great fit. He was ultimately traded before the 2018-19 deadline to the New York Knicks as part of the Kristaps Porzingis deal.

Despite Jordan’s shaky history with the Mavs, that didn’t stop Doncic from congratulating his former teammate for reaching the NBA’s mountain top.

“Congrats brate!!!,” Doncic posted on his Instagram story while tagging Jordan.

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Although Jordan didn’t have many on-court contributions for the Nuggets during their title run, he was still a steady veteran presence that had a positive influence in the locker room. Perhaps Doncic seeing a couple of his friends in Jordan and Finals MVP Nikola Jokic win a title will add more fuel to the fire for a deep Mavs playoff run next season. 

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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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