Luka Doncic for the first time since Wilt Chamberlain with 7 games from 30 points to open the season

Dallas – It’s been sixty years since the National Basketball Association saw a string of season-opening goals like Luka DoncicThe start of the sizzling season.

Doncic scored at least 30 points in each of the Dallas Mavericks’ first seven games, the longest streak of 30 points to start a season since. Wilt Chamberlain In 1962-1963. It’s a feat that has only been accomplished three times previously, twice by Chamberlain and once by Jacques Toumann.

Doncic leads the league with 36.1 points per game. According to ESPN stats and information research, this is the third highest scoring average by seven games in the past 60 seasons behind Michael Jordan (37.0 in 1986-87) and James Harden (36.6 in 2019-20).

“That’s rare air and we’ll see that every night,” MAFS coach Jason Kidd said after Doncic scored 33 points in a 103-100 win over the Utah Jazz on Wednesday night. “That’s really cool. A 23-year-old playing at this level is really really special. He can do it in so many ways, when you talk about posting or reaching for the basket, shooting a 3 or shooting that little step back.

“It’s really cool to watch, and it just shows the focus he has right now. He carries the team and puts the team in a position to win.”

Doncic also had 11 assists, marking his fourth performance of 30 points and 10 assists this season. I collected the rest of the NBA in four such games this season. Doncic fracture Mark AguirreScore the franchise for the longest streak of 30 points.

As Doncic pointed out, this is in stark contrast to his sluggish start last season, when he admitted he went out to training camp out of shape.

“I know since last year I should have started better, because the way I started last year was not acceptable,” said Doncic, who fired 51.4% of the land. “I tried to learn from that and do better than last year.”

A first-team member in the NBA for the past three seasons, Doncic has often found himself on shortlists of players with certain statistic accomplishments. With a smile, he mentioned that Chamberlain seems to be “always around.”

“Amazing, but I’m not surprised,” said the Dallas guard Spencer Dinwiddy He said about Doncic’s important historical scoring streak. “Luca is an expert in every sense of the word as it applies to basketball. Nothing shocks me. He is clearly young and the best is yet to come. I think he will set a lot of records for the Mavs and will be in the conversation with the greats.”