{"id":504910,"date":"2025-11-01T08:46:39","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T12:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=504910"},"modified":"2025-11-01T08:47:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T12:47:36","slug":"lakers-star-doncic-joins-wilt-after-another-40-point-match","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/lakers-star-doncic-joins-wilt-after-another-40-point-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers\u2019 star Doncic joins Wilt after another 40-point match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After Austin Reaves carried Los Angeles in the past few days, Luka Doncic returned at the end of the week and took back the leading role after scoring at least 40 points for another time in the Lakers\u2019 117-112 victory against the Memphis Grizzlies.<\/p>\n<p>The Slovenian star, who was sidelined in the previous 3 matches with an injury, flew for the game solo to join his teammates and after that notched a match-high 44 points.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Luka Don\u010di\u0107 in his return to the court tonight:<\/p>\n<p>\u2728 44 points<br \/>\u2728 12 rebounds<br \/>\u2728 6 assists<\/p>\n<p>Lakers moves to 1-0 in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/emirates?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@emirates<\/a> NBA Cup West Group B play! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yMUsm1SVxz\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/yMUsm1SVxz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NBA (@NBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA\/status\/1984473993450045937?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 1, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It was Luka\u2019s 3<sup>rd<\/sup> consecutive 40-point match after notching 43 on their opener vs. the Warriors, and after that, he finished with 49 points vs. the Timberwolves, becoming the only basketballer in the league history other than Wilt Chamberlain to top 40 points in 3 matches in a row to begin the campaign. (Wil did it 2 times: 7 consecutive matches in 1962-63 and 5 in a row in 1961-62).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel amazing,\u201d revealed Doncic after another top performance from him on the court. \u201cBut the most important thing for me is for the Los Angeles Lakers to win, and that\u2019s what makes me happy the most is that we won another match.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Austin Reaves carried Los Angeles in the past few days, Luka Doncic returned at the end of the week and took back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":491377,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16970,16747],"news_category":[16706,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[17645,18115],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Luka is in Chamberlain\u2019s club after scoring at least 40 points again.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/504910"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504910"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/504910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":504914,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/504910\/revisions\/504914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504910"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=504910"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=504910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}