The NBA introduced as we speak that Brooklyn Nets ahead Kevin Durant has been named the Jap Convention Participant of the Week and Dallas Mavericks guard Luka Dončić was named the Western Convention Participant of the Week for video games performed from Monday, March 7, via Sunday, March 13.
The glory is Durant’s third as a Internet and the twenty ninth Participant of the Week award of his profession.
Durant led Brooklyn to an ideal 3-0 week, recording averages of 30.7 factors on 52.2 % taking pictures from the sphere, 36.4 % taking pictures from 3-point vary and 87.5 % taking pictures from the free-throw line, 7.7 rebounds, 7.7 assists and 1.3 steals in 38.2 minutes per recreation. Durant was considered one of two gamers within the East to common not less than 30 factors, 5 rebounds and 5 assists for the week and completed the week ranked first within the East in plus/minus (+53), sixth in factors per recreation, seventh in minutes per recreation and eighth in assists per recreation. Durant opened the week by totaling 14 factors, three rebounds and 7 assists in 40 minutes in Brooklyn’s 132-121 highway victory over the Charlotte Hornets on March 8. He adopted up that effort by registering 25 factors, 14 rebounds, seven assists and two steals in 32 minutes in a 129-100 rout of the Philadelphia 76ers at Wells Fargo Heart on March 10. Durant completed the week with an excellent efficiency in a 110-107 residence victory over the New York Knicks yesterday, scoring a Nets season-high 53 factors to go together with six rebounds, 9 assists and two steals in 43 minutes. The 53 factors had been the second-most scored in a recreation in Durant’s profession, trailing solely a 54-point efficiency with Oklahoma Metropolis versus Golden State on Jan. 17, 2014. The 53 factors additionally represented the third-most factors in a recreation in Nets NBA historical past, trailing solely Deron Williams’ 57 factors on March 4, 2012, at Charlotte and Kyrie Irving’s 54 factors on Jan. 31, 2020, versus Chicago.
As for Doncic, this marks the second time this season (Feb. 7-13, 2022) and the sixth time in his profession he has obtained the consideration (Nov. 18-24, 2019; Jan. 4-10, 2021; March 29-April 4, 2021; April 19-25, 2021). Dirk Nowitzki (16 occasions) is the one Maverick to win the award extra occasions.
Dončić (6-7, 230) has now been named Western Convention Participant of the Week in two of the final three weeks, along with being named Western Convention Participant of the Month for February. Dončić led the Mavericks to a 3-1 week with averages of 30.5 factors (.494 FG), 11.0 rebounds, 6.2 assists, 1.8 steals and 1.0 blocks in 36.5 minutes.
The 23-year-old started the week by posting recreation highs of 35 factors (12-23 FG, 5-11 3FG, 6-7 FT), 16 rebounds, 7 assists and three steals to go together with 1 block in 38 minutes within the Mavericks’ 111-103 victory over Utah on Mar. 7. It marked his first profession recreation recording 35-plus factors, 15-plus rebounds, 7-plus assists and 3-plus steals, and he grew to become the primary participant to hit every of these benchmarks in a recreation this season.
A recreation after Dončić posted a game-high 31 factors within the Mavericks’ loss to New York on Mar. 9, Dončić posted recreation highs of 30 factors (9-19 FG, 5-11 3FG, 7-10 FT) and 14 rebounds to go together with 6 assists and a game-high-tying 2 blocks in 36 minutes in Dallas’ 113-100 win in Houston on Mar. 11. The efficiency marked simply the second time in his profession he reached these numbers in a recreation (34 factors, 20 boards, 12 assists, 2 blocks at SAC on 8/4/20). Dončić additionally grew to become considered one of seven gamers to realize that stat line in a recreation this season (becoming a member of Giannis Antetokounmpo, Nikola Jokić, LeBron James, Joel Embiid, Julius Randle, Karl Anthony-Cities) and the one guard to do it in 2021-22.
Dončić capped the week by serving to the Mavericks snap Boston’s 5-game win streak with a game-high 26 factors to go together with 8 rebounds and a game-high 8 assists within the Mavericks’ 95-92 win on nationwide tv. The three-time All-Star helped Dallas erase a 13-point second-half deficit for his or her league-leading 14th double-digit comeback win to enhance to a season-high 16 video games above .500 (42-26).
