Luka Doncic plans to play in the Paris Olympics, provided his knees allow him to go through more games and help Slovenia qualify shortly after a season in which he and the Dallas Mavericks made it all the way to the NBA Finals.
Dallas Mavericks guard Luka Doncic celebrates the team’s win over the Minnesota Timberwolves in Game 5 of the Western Conference finals in the NBA basketball playoffs Thursday, May 30, 2024, in Minneapolis. The Mavericks won 124-103, taking the series 4-1 and moving on to the NBA Finals.
Slovenia on Wednesday released a list of 16 players including Doncic who are candidates to be on the team that will play in an Olympic qualifying tournament in Greece starting on July 2. If Slovenia wins that tournament — Greece, the Dominican Republic, New Zealand, Croatia and Egypt are also in the field — it will be among the 12-team men’s field at the Paris Games that start in late July.
“If it’s good, I’m going to go play,” Doncic said Wednesday at NBA Finals media day in Boston, saying the knee issue that he’s been playing through in the playoffs would be the only foreseeable obstacle.has represented Slovenia on a number of international stages, including the Tokyo Olympics that were moved back to 2021 because of the pandemic.
Doncic scored 48 points in his Olympic debut game in 2021, tying for the second most in any men’s Olympic game and finishing seven shy of matching the record of 55 set by Brazil’s Oscar Schmidt in 1988. There are eight teams already with berths for the 12-team Olympic men’s field. France qualified as the host nation, and seven other teams — the four-time defending gold medalist U.S., World Cup champion Germany, Canada, Japan, South Sudan, Serbia and Australia — qualified based on their finishes at last summer’s World Cup in the Philippines.that’ll compete from July 2-7 for the other four spots.
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