DALLAS (AP) 鈥� Include the extra rebound, or don't.
It doesn't really matter with Luka Doncic's logic-defying stat line that had current and former NBA stars, along with current and former teammates, buzzing on Twitter.
Doncic had 60 points, a Dallas franchise record, a career-best 21 rebounds and 10 assists in a wild on Tuesday night.
Set up by his off his intentionally missed free throw, Doncic had the first 60-20-10 triple-double in NBA history.
Plenty of peers noticed, including former European sidekick Kristaps Porzingis, traded to Washington last season to break up the pairing that never really clicked as planned.
Porzingis referenced their shared playing roots in Spain, that translated to 鈥淭his guy is not normal.鈥�
And the 7-foot-3 Latvian skipped that extraneous rebound on a night when he could celebrate a double-double of his own with 24 points and 10 rebounds as .
Doncic broke Dirk Nowitzki's franchise record of 53 points from 2004 two days after the Mavericks unveiled a statue of the retired German star outside the arena.
Nowitzki is the highest-scoring foreign-born player in NBA history (sixth overall). The 23-year-old All-Star could hold that title some day.
鈥淚t'll be another statue in Dallas,鈥� Hall of Famer Kevin Garnett wrote on Twitter.
while calling Doncic's numbers 鈥淚NSANE!!!!!!!鈥�
Brooklyn star Kevin Durant felt the need for an expletive in comparing Doncic's night to video-game numbers.
Mavericks owner Mark Cuban said he'll never see another night like it, and teammate Christian Wood, whose 3-pointer sparked the rally from nine points down in the final 30 seconds of regulation, to Doncic's farm in his native Slovenia.
鈥淓verybody is still in shock,鈥� coach Jason Kidd said after the game. 鈥� The history of the game is written by the players and it was written again tonight for a player 鈥� Luka 鈥� doing something that鈥檚 never been done before.鈥�
___
More AP NBA: and
Schuyler Dixon, The Associated Press
