This year’s NBA All-Star Game featured one of the most defensively lax performances the sport has ever seen, making for what many fans on Twitter complained to be a meaningless and unwatchable game of basketball.
As it turns out, the All-Star Game's finest moment may have come off the court, when Dallas Mavericks star Luka Dončić personally responded to one fan's harsh tweet during Sunday night's matchup.
Late in the second quarter, a fan tweeted about how one of Dončić’s long-range shots—from behind the half-court line—may be “the worst shot selection in all star game history.”
Dončić took an analytics approach in his sassy retort, saying he was simply going for a 2-for-1 with the clock on his side at the end of the first half.
2 for 1 .. analytics 😎
— Luka Doncic (@luka7doncic) February 19, 2024
NBA All-Star Games have historically been high-scoring matchups, and this year is no exception. With both teams stacked from top to bottom with the league’s most athletically and technically gifted players, what some hoped to be a competitive rivalry for the ages has more or less turned into a backyard chuck-a-roo.
At least Dončić is keeping a bit of gamesmanship in mind.
