Mavs Star Luka Doncic Wins NBA West Player of the Month for December

The incredible play of Luka Doncic has vaulted the Dallas Mavericks back into contention. The NBA announced on Tuesday that he won the Player of the Month award for December.

Dalton Trigg | Jan 3, 2023

The national recognition just keeps coming for Dallas Mavericks superstar Luka Doncic, as the NBA announced on Tuesday that he won the Western Conference Player of the Month for his stellar play in December.

In 17 games last month, Doncic averaged 35.1 points, 8.5 rebounds and 9.3 assists. As good as those numbers are, the most important number is 11, which is how many games the Mavs won in December.

Doncic’s all-time season has Dallas right back in the thick of things at the top of the West despite the team managing several significant injuries. He is on pace to become the only player in league history to have season averages of at least 33 points, eight rebounds and eight assists.

Doncic’s incredible December included the first 60-point, 20-rebound triple-double ever recorded in league history. He finished with 60 points, 21 rebounds and 10 assists as the Mavs erased a nine-point deficit with 27 seconds remaining in regulation to ultimately beat the New York Knicks in overtime, 126-121.

Philadelphia 76ers big man Joel Embiid won the Eastern Conference Player of the Month award for December. The Sixers went 9-4 in December, and Embiid averaged 35.4 points, 9.9 rebounds and 4.2 assists.

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Published Jan 3, 2023

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.