Dallas Mavericks’ Luka Doncic Named To 2022-23 All-NBA First Team

For the fourth consecutive year, Dallas Mavericks guard Luka Doncic has been named to the All-NBA First Team. Doncic ties 2023 NBA Hall of Fame inductee and Mavericks legend Dirk Nowitzki for the most All-NBA First Team selections in franchise history.

With his fourth selection to the team, Doncic finds himself in rare company. The 24-year-old Slovenian star joins Kevin Durant, Tim Duncan and Max Zaslofsky as the only players to receive All-NBA First Team honors before their twenty-fifth birthday. Doncic also joins Larry Bird, George Gervin and Duncan as the only players to earn four-or-more All-NBA First Team nods within their first five seasons since the ABA/NBA merger in 1976-77.

This season, he averaged a career-high 32.4 points, a team-high 8.6 rebounds, a team-high eight assists, a career-high 1.4 steals and a career-high 36.2 minutes in 66 games. Michael Jordan is the only other player in NBA history to average at least 32 points, eight rebounds and eight assists for a season. Jordan did so during the 1988-89 season.

Doncic ranked second in the NBA in scoring behind NBA Most Valuable Player Joel Embiid. He broke Mark Aguirre’s franchise record of 29.5 points per game in 1983-84 for the highest single-season scoring average while joining Aguirre as the only Dallas players to finish as high as second in the league in scoring.

Helping him amass 2,138 points on the year, the third-highest mark in franchise history, were an NBA-best four 50-point performances. Doncic also set a new single-season franchise record for the most 40-point and 30-point games, 14 and 44, respectively. He scored 30-plus points in each of the team’s first nine games, the second-longest 30-point streak to begin a season in NBA history.

Among his 10 triple-doubles this season, Doncic recorded an NBA-best four 40-point triple-doubles and the league’s first-ever 60-point, 20-rebound triple-double against the New York Knicks on December 27.

He also made his fourth All-Star appearance this season at age 23. Doncic joins Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Shaquille O’Neal, Isiah Thomas and Anthony Davis as the only players to earn four All-Star nods before their twenty-fourth birthday.

Joining him on the 2022-23 Kia All-NBA First Team are Oklahoma City Thunder guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Milwaukee Bucks’ Giannis Antetokounmpo and Boston Celtics’ Jason Tatum at forward and center Joel Embiid of the Philadelphia 76ers.