Dallas Mavericks superstar Luka Doncic returned to Spain and received a warm home welcome when he faced his former team, Real Madrid, for the first time in an exhibition game on Tuesday at the packed WiZink Center.
Doncic’s minutes were restricted in this game due to a left calf strain, Kyrie Irving was abcent too. Despite having a 12-point fourth-quarter lead, Mavs fell against the reigning EuroLeague champions Real 127-123.
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I think Real Madrid is a great team, many players in Real Madrid are former NBA players, but in Dallas the best players haven't played, Irving hasn't played, Doncic has played 5 minutes, in Dallas all the reserves have played and whatever the case may be they narrowly lost in a defenseless game.
I remember a preseason game where the NBA champions Lakers, in 2010, lost to Barcelona, in that game Pau didn't play, Kobe played a few minutes, while in Barcelona the best played for most of the time, there was Navarro and Basile who played almost 30 minutes, great basketball, against the Lakers' reserves.
Dallas luzer
man just think about, when both nba and euroleague finish, the winners get a break for a week or so and then meet in the middle ground to fight for the champion of the world title
"What Does Mavericks Losing To Real Madrid Mean?" mhh nothing
People making this serious did not watch the game. The mavs played their 2 way lineup in the fourth quarter after building a 15 point lead 😂
It means nothing. But Real might be getting a bit too good for the Euroleague honestly, they could easily turn into a permanent dynasty and that will not be good for competitiveness. Yeah I know last year they barely won but look how many injuries they had, and they still won.
Luka is overrated 😂
It don't mean nothing, judging preseason games is pointless
We should see real matches between nba and euroleague. Nba champion vs euroleague champion like the club world cup in football.
Luka and Kyrie were injured, otherwise they would’ve played. Also the overreactions were wild. The mavs would’ve beaten them by 20 if they were healthy and and the normal rotation played.
Dude, Real Madrid rotated a lot, we had played 3 games in 4 days, stop pretending as if only the Mavericks were using their B team. By the way, you mentioned that they didn't play Luka but our best player (Tavares) came back from an illness, he was nowhere near his prime.
The game was slightly boring…
Would love to see Euroleague vs. NBA!
It's a friendly. It's ok.
10 best euroleague teams vs 10 best NBA teams tournament would be really interesting
it means that real madrid is a good team end of discussion
Means nothing. Luka played 5 minutes, Kyrie did not play.
The only game that they can do is a game like the soccer champions of one league and every year should been playing the winner of the NBA and Euro league and whoevee wins gets the trophy
They let rm win that game coz Luka wanted to them to win.
Thanks for the Damage Control video. I just see excuses dressed as "context" to justify the loss. When Lyles said that things, the internet was full of arrogant US people saying that even the cleaning man of the NBA courst ca defeat euroteams. After the three loses it changed to "whe didn't send our best, it was the z team!" (pretty sad to tal like that about your players that are fighting for YOU in the court) and now the excuse is other. I wonder which one would be next.
And to evaluate the talent based on the NBA players the team has talks alone…
Short memory bagging out NBL teams. Was only last year our Adelaide sixers beat Phoenix.
It would be amazing that in the future they made a cup where top 4 teams Nba top 4 euroleague and some teams of other leagues compete each other
No surprise, meaning nothing!
literally means nothing. the mavs are a bad team and the bad thing is that luca is starting to getting to use losing.
nothing
Means nothing, it was a game for fun. In basketball, there is no world cup for bb teams and it is hard to see it coming. NBA is national league, played under different rules compared to EuroLeague that is international for European teams. As for world champion team, it does not exist, as there is no competition for that, so calling NBA champion World Champion is really funny. I would love to see NBA and Fiba rules coming closer, then we might get proper competition, but that's not going to happen as commercial side of two games is different.
so we can say Madrid in basketball is the Real thing
come on man its just a preseason game
It was a fun game nothing more. All the guys who played in 4th for Dallas aren’t even rotation players.
How about bringing back something like the McDonald's Championship that they had 9 of from 1987-1999? Yes it was preseason games but team treated it more as a tournament then just preseason games. I only caught one game in the 1999 Championship but the Spurs kept their starters/rotation players in for the whole game to win. Google it. It was a tournament with teams from all over the world (NBA, Europe, South American, Asia, Oceania). The NBA went undefeated but had a couple of close calls. If these games are part of a tournament (the NBA teams only played 2 games, the semis and then the finals) then they have more meaning for the players and the coaches then just a regular preseason game.
Maybe you dont know Real madrid is by far the best team in Europe.
Guess thats why we have the FIBA-Tournament, so its the best teams worldwide
A NBA team losing against an euro league team should perhaps cool the typical USA narrative, that any NBA team will win by 50 points and wipe the floor with any non NBA team. It should perhaps also cool the uninformed, arrogant, typical USA narrative claim that the NBA champion is something of a world champion. The last time the NBA champion, LA Lakers played the euro league champion in 2010, Barcelona, LA Lakers lost 92 to 88. But they still have world champion 2010 hanging on the wall.
I mean it was OK game, but this ain't Real Madrid that pulls up in any competitive match I've ever watched 😂
If they casually walked around like that, coach would shred them to pieces 😅
All I'm gonna say is Real Madrid would definitely make the playoffs in the NBA
It's an exhibition. In soccer we call it a friendly. It's just for conditioning, and the fans.
I'm sure you'd demolish us. Sure!! Just trying to explain that Real could spend same money as we do in soccer mmmm
Guess you don't realize my irony. Just a joke, nothing personal. Luka would play for us. Just joking!
Just mean you're not in the regular season, Luka and Kyrie weren't playing…and Luka maybe told their mates in Mavericks, please let hem play
Just imagine Real receiving as a guest in playoffs…this is the our way….https://youtu.be/8KR9KKAC_Jk?si=aGK-Cj7MUJ6yZXxr