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Luka Doncic Talks Emotional Return to Dallas, Tribute Video, & Love From Mavs Fans · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: Luca, how did you go from the emotions of the
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  Speaker 1: video and the fans and the reception and everything to then,
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  Speaker 1: you know, playing the way that you played.
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  Speaker 2: New question.
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  Speaker 3: We know, like I said postgame interview, you know, after
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  Speaker 3: that video, like I was like, there's no way I'm
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  Speaker 3: playing this game. You know, it was so many emotions,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, I just went out there and just
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  Speaker 3: played basketball.
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  Speaker 4: When you checked out or there's a time out, I
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  Speaker 4: guess before you checked out, you had forty five points.
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  Speaker 4: Come to the bench some of the fans and they
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  Speaker 4: were or chanting Luca, and your Laker teammates are jumping
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  Speaker 4: up and down and chanting it too. What was that
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  Speaker 4: moment like for you? And how do you think this
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  Speaker 4: was an eventful day for the Lakers as a team
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  Speaker 4: and you being a part of.
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  Speaker 3: Them big time because they all had my back and
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  Speaker 3: so we talked about before the game, and everybody had
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  Speaker 3: my back, from coaches to players, and you know, we're
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  Speaker 3: trying to be something special here and that was really,
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  Speaker 3: really really nice to see.
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  Speaker 5: I know, we talked about this last night a little bit.
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  Speaker 5: You said, you know it was gonna be an emotional night,
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  Speaker 5: but you weren't fully sure what to expect. I guess
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  Speaker 5: when you woke up this morning, even got to the arena,
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  Speaker 5: more so even pre game, like, what were you feeling
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  Speaker 5: as you know, you walk through this arena for the
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  Speaker 5: first time in a while, as you you know, you
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  Speaker 5: see these faces, like what were what were you feeling
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  Speaker 5: in those more specifically, Well, it.
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  Speaker 2: Was a little bit of both, you know, happy and angry.
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  Speaker 3: But you know it's nice to see, uh, some familiar
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  Speaker 3: faces here. You know, I spent a lot of times
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  Speaker 3: with them. Uh, But like you said, you know, it
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  Speaker 3: was a lot of emotions. When I woke up, I
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  Speaker 3: was tired, and you know, I didn't sleep much. I
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  Speaker 3: was excited about this game, and you know, I really
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  Speaker 3: appreciate the fence, the way they reacted it to me.
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  Speaker 6: Looka what was the exhale like after the exhale, was
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  Speaker 6: there a sigh of relief for exhaustion from you? After
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  Speaker 6: after tonight to be able to put this back.
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  Speaker 2: I'm tired.
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  Speaker 3: I'm tired, but you know I'm happy. I'm happy it's over.
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  Speaker 3: I can get some sleep finally. But like I said,
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  Speaker 3: it was an amazing experience. You know, Like I said,
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  Speaker 3: the fans, the way they accept.
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  Speaker 2: Me, you know, cheer for me. It was just some unbelievable.
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  Speaker 7: Looka you had that moment after you checked out where
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  Speaker 7: you got a standing ovation from the crowd, you got
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  Speaker 7: a standing ovation from the bench, and then you sat
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  Speaker 7: down and you were surrounded but by everyone standing. What
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  Speaker 7: was going through your head there when you kind of
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  Speaker 7: sat by yourself for like thirty seconds.
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  Speaker 3: Honestly, I don't really know. I wasn't even thinking. I
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  Speaker 3: was just I was just, you know, happy. I wasn't
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  Speaker 3: really thinking I'm sorry. I don't know what to say
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  Speaker 3: because I wasn't really thinking. I was just saying, there
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  Speaker 3: it's over. You know, we won, and I hadn't had
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  Speaker 3: a great time.
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  Speaker 1: Look, Da've alluded to this a little bit, but not
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  Speaker 1: just tonight's when. But you know, beating okay, see in
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  Speaker 1: the way that you did hanging in in the second game.
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  Speaker 1: What kind of collective confidence this just give you? Guys?
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  Speaker 1: As you know you still need one to secure the
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  Speaker 1: three seeds? But what confidence does it give you as
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  Speaker 1: you approached the playoffs?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, first's big time. The we the week clinched playoffs,
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  Speaker 3: but you know it's a big time. You don't want
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  Speaker 3: to play in playing you know, you get some rest,
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  Speaker 3: but obviously we want the third seat and we're gonna
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  Speaker 3: go after it for sure.
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  Speaker 8: Looka if you can explain in Spanish and persal and
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  Speaker 8: Espanol video este bartido.
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  Speaker 3: like you see.
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  Speaker 6: Lucas specifically during that pregame video, what were some of
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  Speaker 6: the moments that found you made you most emotional. Was
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  Speaker 6: there anything in particular that really stuck out to you
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  Speaker 6: as you kind of looked back as a sort of
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  Speaker 6: you know, your basketball career in America kind of compressed
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  Speaker 6: into two minutes.
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  Speaker 3: I mean all of it, for sure, But I mean
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  Speaker 3: I would probably say that the shot in the finals
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  Speaker 3: of the conference on the conference finals. You know, we
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  Speaker 3: were always the underdog in every serious so the way
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  Speaker 3: we came together and played together, it was just another
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  Speaker 3: level and everybody, everybody.
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  Speaker 2: Was locked in. And I would say that was that
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  Speaker 2: was the moment when I remember last.
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  Speaker 9: Year, Look that there was a lot of moments there
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  Speaker 9: with your former teammates. You had exchanges, you had embraces.
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  Speaker 9: What was that like for you personally just giving everything
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  Speaker 9: you just mentioned you've been through with them and then
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  Speaker 9: I saw you had a moment there with a D
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  Speaker 9: at the end, and what can you share about that conversation?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean those those are not I say. You
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  Speaker 2: know it was in my brothers.
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  Speaker 9: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: I know we're not on the same team now, but
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  Speaker 3: I always have contact with them. We went through wars together,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, it was just like it was nice
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  Speaker 3: to see everybody. Uh in the end, you know with
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  Speaker 3: day d Uh, we got traded for each other. So
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  Speaker 3: from now and everybody gonna compare us to uh. But
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  Speaker 3: I think he's an amazing player and I think he's
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  Speaker 3: gonna do really good in dollars fun.
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  Speaker 7: Look at You know, you spoke back in February about
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  Speaker 7: how it would take time for closure, and you said,
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  Speaker 7: after this game on the prooadcast, it's time.
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  Speaker 8: To move on.
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  Speaker 2: Do you feel like you have closure? It's a hard question.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I for sure it is a little bit more.
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  Speaker 5: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: You know, talking about closure, Uh sometimes hard because like
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  Speaker 3: I said, I spend a lot of time here great moments. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: but it's like I said, it's getting more and more
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  Speaker 3: and I gotta focus on different things.
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  Speaker 4: Now, that's one.
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  Speaker 2: Rather and start.
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  Speaker 9: Okay it give you get the stand and.
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  Speaker 2: Domo uh my thousand he wor h okay you uh
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  Speaker 2: he stay. Thanks, thank you, thank you,