Basketball superstar Luka Doncic played his first NBA match after his fierce Lakers transfer. Lauri Markkanen’s Utah missed opportunities.
Slovenian basketball star Luka Doncicin Premiere in Los Angeles Lakers’ shirt in the NBA was Lauri Markkanen Represented by Utah Jazz is difficult.
Lakers covered the Utah’s home arena 132-113. Doncic scored 14 points in the match. Markkanen scored 17 points that was together John Collins With Utah’s best quotation. Markkanen’s statistics also recorded three rebounds, feed, ball disparing and fighting. Only one of the Finns’ eight three -point throwing attempts slipped into a basketball.
The match statistics of the match was Lakers’ biggest star Lebron James With 24 points. Doncic’s best blade was still missing and he only played for 24 minutes. The Slovenian succeeded from seven to three points only once.
Doncic has been the biggest topic in the basketball world since last week. Dallas Mavericks traded his star player to Lakers in a gigantic exchange, where, among other things, the big names of the series moved in one direction Anthony Davis.
Lakers fans were ecstatic during the match. James and Doncic’s collaboration is expected, and the fans got the duo in the first match they wanted. The club offered fans, free of charge, to Doncic’s name and number 77.
– We bought the tickets for this match three and a half weeks ago. Then the shop happened and we realized that oh, we can see Doncic in an otherwise not so interesting match. This is a beautiful evening and the free shirt is a nice bonus, Lakers fan Blade Griffin quoth.
In recent weeks, Los Angeles has suffered from the destruction of huge wildfires. By the end of January, at least 29 people have died and more than 200,000 people had to be evacuated.
Doncic donated $ 500,000 to repair and rebuild the damage caused by wildfires for the UTAH match.
– Look at what her purchase does for the community. Luka has already left behind in the city. The donation shows how much he has a heart. He is already the perfect addition to the organization, Lakers fan Courtney ibarra stated.
Lakers is one of the most successful clubs in NBA. It has 17 championships in the prize cabinet, which is the second most. The previous championship came under the leadership of Lebron James in 2020.
The acquisition of Doncic will raise the club’s shares in this season’s championship hunt. Lakers is fifth in the Western Conference.
Markkanen’s Utah is stuck in the NBA bottom. The team has won only 12 of the 51 matches they played and is ranked last in the Western Conference. Especially the guest parquet has been difficult, now the ninth consecutive guest loss has come.
In their next match, Lakers and Utah will meet again between Wednesday and Thursday night, this time at Utah’s home arena.