Mavs’ All-Star Luka Doncic Drafted To Team LeBron

Dallas Mavericks superstar Luka Doncic was drafted to play for Team LeBron in the NBA All-Star game for the second year in a row.

Dalton Trigg | Mar 4, 2021

Mavs’ All-Star Luka Doncic Drafted To Team LeBron /

For the second straight season, Dallas Mavericks superstar Luka Doncic will play for Team LeBron in the NBA All-Star game, which will take place Sunday night in Atlanta.

With the 5th overall pick in the All-Star draft, LeBron James drafted Doncic to join his team that also features Giannis Antetokounmpo, Nikola Jokic and Steph Curry as the other three starters. Call us biased if you must, but we believe James’ team has the upper hand on Kevin Durant’s team, which features Kyrie Irving, Kawhi Leonard, Jayson Tatum, Bradley Beal and Joel Embiid as its five starters (Durant won’t be playing in the All-Star game due to a hamstring injury).

Despite sitting out the Mavs’ last game before the break against OKC with back tightness, Doncic will be playing with his fellow superstars on Sunday and should be fresh. Doncic, who recently turned 22 years old, already has quite the resumé being built, now having a Rookie of the Year award, two NBA All-Star starter appearances, a top-4 finish in MVP voting, and All-NBA First Team honors (likely to happen again after this season as well).

As a side note, it will be both fun and slightly painful to finally see Doncic play alongside former ‘Mavs 2021 Free Agency Pipe-Dream’ Antetokounmpo. The Mavs front office had high hopes of making a pitch to Giannis this upcoming offseason before he ultimately decided to sign a supermax extension to stay with the Milwaukee Bucks.

The NBA All-Star game will be aired on TNT this Sunday night at 7 p.m. central time. Doncic will also be participating in the Taco Bell Skills Challenge, which will happen at 5:30 p.m. central time that same day.

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Published Mar 4, 2021

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.