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Steph Predicts Luka ‘On Precipice’ of Major Accolades

Golden State Warriors star Steph Curry joined the “Gil’s Arena” show and made a bold prediction about Dallas Mavericks’ Luka Doncic.

Dalton Trigg

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When it comes to NBA accolades, Dallas Mavericks star Luka Doncic already has a handful of them on his mantle, including several monster playoff performances and four consecutive All-NBA First Team selections.

However, Doncic, who is only 24 years old, still has a lot of room to grow, as he’s yet to accomplish two of the biggest goals an NBA player can reach: league MVP and a championship.

On Monday, Golden State Warriors four-time champion Steph Curry joined former NBA player Gilbert Arenas’ show, “Gil’s Arena,” to talk about a variety of league topics. In the “Who’s Got Next” segment of the show, Curry had some big praise for Doncic, and made a prediction about his near future.

“Luka’s like the guy, obviously, that’s right on the precipice of all those accolades,” Curry said. “Just what he’s about as a player. [It’s about] that threshold of just, ‘how do you crack through?’ I hope it’s not now, but when you play against him, you can feel it”

Coming into his sixth season, Doncic appears to be in the best physical shape of his young career. He still has some international business to attend to before putting his entire focus on the 2023-24 NBA season, as he prepares for the FIBA World Cup with the Slovenian national team, but after that, all bets are off.

Not only did the Mavs re-sign Doncic’s co-star in Kyrie Irving, but they upgraded the depth around the star duo as well with the additions of Grant Williams, Seth Curry, Richaun Holmes, Dereck Lively II, OMax Prosper, Dante Exum and Derrick Jones Jr. Dallas did all of that while also retaining key roster pieces from last season like Josh Green, Jaden Hardy, Maxi Kleber, Tim Hardaway Jr. and Dwight Powell.

Curry predicts Doncic as being the next star to ‘run the league,’ so to speak, and the Mavs’ front office has given its superstar a better chance of doing just that after this offseason. We’ll see how the on-court results materialize in a few months.

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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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