Mavs’ Luka Doncic Ranked as Best NBA Guard Ahead of Steph Curry, Ja Morant

Bleacher Report ranked the NBA’s top 25 guards, and Dallas Mavericks superstar Luka Doncic topped the list ahead of Steph Curry, Ja Morant, Trae Young and many others.

Dalton Trigg | Oct 11, 2022

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For the third consecutive year, Dallas Mavericks star Luka Doncic enters the season as the betting favorite to win the league’s MVP award. Through four seasons with the Mavs, Doncic has already racked up an impressive list of accolades, including three All-Star nods, three All-NBA First Team selections and a trip to the Western Conference Finals … all well before his 24th birthday.

Bleacher Report recently ranked their top 25 guards for the 2022-23 season, and Doncic was placed at the top of the list … ahead of future Hall of Famer and reigning Finals MVP Steph Curry and others.

“Even watching Luka Doncic play as a rookie, it was clear he was destined to join the league's elite players before long,” writes B/R’s Greg Swartz. “While he's always put up numbers, a lack of conditioning seemed to hold Doncic back from reaching his massive potential. Now, the 23 year old looks slimmer than ever and is coming off a playoff performance where he averaged 31.7 points in 15 games to lead all postseason scorers.”

Here are the top 10 guards on their list:

Luka Doncic, Mavs
Steph Curry, Warriors
Ja Morant, Grizzlies
Trae Young, Hawks
Devin Booker, Suns
Damien Lillard, Trail Blazers
James Harden, 76ers
Donovan Mitchell, Cavs
Kyrie Irving, Nets
Bradley Beal, Wizards

Given that Doncic has been a top-five player in the league over the last two seasons, his high ranking on this particular list shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone. As good as Curry, Morant, Young and the others are, Doncic has a leg up due to his ability to completely control a game.

Doncic will get to start out the new season by going head-to-head with two of the players listed above in the Mavs’ first two games. Dallas takes on Booker and the Phoenix Suns on Oct. 19 to open the season on the road, followed by Morant and the Grizzlies on Oct. 22 at American Airlines Center.

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Published Oct 11, 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.