{"id":467374,"date":"2025-11-01T08:57:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T07:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=467374"},"modified":"2025-11-01T08:57:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T07:57:18","slug":"luka-doncic-joins-wilt-chamberlain-after-third-straight-40-point-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/luka-doncic-joins-wilt-chamberlain-after-third-straight-40-point-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Luka Doncic joins Wilt Chamberlain after third straight 40-point game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1162\" data-end=\"1525\"><strong data-start=\"1162\" data-end=\"1177\">Luka Doncic<\/strong> joined <strong data-start=\"1185\" data-end=\"1205\">Wilt Chamberlain<\/strong> in rare company with his <strong data-start=\"1231\" data-end=\"1273\">third consecutive 40-point performance<\/strong>, scoring <strong data-start=\"1283\" data-end=\"1296\">44 points<\/strong> to lead the <strong data-start=\"1309\" data-end=\"1331\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/strong> past the <strong data-start=\"1341\" data-end=\"1362\">Memphis Grizzlies<\/strong> 117-112. Returning from injury, Doncic also posted <strong data-start=\"1414\" data-end=\"1443\">12 rebounds and 6 assists<\/strong>, sparking a comeback from 15 points down in L.A.\u2019s <strong data-start=\"1495\" data-end=\"1522\">first NBA Cup group win<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1527\" data-end=\"1786\">Doncic has scored <strong data-start=\"1545\" data-end=\"1584\">136 points in his first three games<\/strong>, making him the only player besides Chamberlain and <strong data-start=\"1637\" data-end=\"1665\">Michael Jordan (1986-87)<\/strong> to surpass 125 over that span. Averaging <strong data-start=\"1707\" data-end=\"1722\">45.3 points<\/strong>, he\u2019s the first Laker since <strong data-start=\"1751\" data-end=\"1774\">Kobe Bryant in 2007<\/strong> to do so.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1788\" data-end=\"1874\">\u201cBeing in that company feels amazing,\u201d Doncic said. \u201cBut winning feels even better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1876\" data-end=\"1936\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luka Doncic joined Wilt Chamberlain in rare company with his third consecutive 40-point performance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":467373,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-467374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/11\/G4pCX5JaMAAuthD.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467374"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=467374"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=467374"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=467374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}