Luka Doncic was injured in the first quarter of the NBA game that faced his Dallas Mavericks with the Phoenix Suns.
Dallas called a timeout with 8:39 left in the first quarter and replaced Doncic, who limped off to the locker room in pain.
The Mavericks announced that Doncic suffered a sprained left ankle when stepping on a rival who comes to the aid to defend him and that a x-ray ruled out that the Slovenian player suffered some type of fracture.
In the scant 3 minutes that Luka Doncic was able to play, he did not score and missed his two shots to the basket (a three-pointer and a 2-pointer).
Dinwiddie had to play Doncic to lead Dallas to a win over Phoenix
Despite Doncic’s injury, his Mavericks managed to win the game 99-95 thanks to the success of Spencer Dinwiddie (38 points with 5 of 6 on three-pointers), Dwight Powell (15 points) and Dorian Finney-Smith (18 points and 12 rebounds). ).
Chris Paul (22 points), Deandre Ayton (19 points and 20 rebounds) and Cameron Johnson (22 points) failed to prevent the Suns’ defeat.
