NBA player Luka Doncic received a complement from Vinicius Junior of Real Madrid after Doncic’s historic 73-point performance for the Dallas Mavericks on Friday.

Consequently, what happened?

With an incredible effort on Friday night, the Slovenian led the Dallas Mavericks to a 148-143 victory over the Atlanta Hawks. With this accomplishment, he became the only player from Europe to ever score 70 points or more in an NBA game. With Wilt Chamberlain and David Thompson, Doncic currently has the third-best scoring effort in NBA history; nevertheless, he is still behind Kobe Bryant’s 81 points and Chamberlain’s 100 points.

THE BIGGER PICTURE

In September 2012, Doncic made his Real Madrid debut at the tender age of 13. After that, he lived in the Spanish capital for a number of years before traveling over the Atlantic to the NBA to try his luck. When he has free time, the basketball player loves to watch Real Madrid play football. He even praised Vinicius on his hat-trick against Barcelona in the Super Cup final earlier this month.

WHAT VINICIUS AND REAL MADRID SAID

Vinicius did not miss the opportunity to return the favour and quoted the same tweet and wrote “73 puntos LEYENDA!!!! (73 points, legend)”.

Additionally, Real Madrid congratulated Doncic on X, writing: “Wonderful, @luka7doncic! 73 rating points! A achievement only the greatest NBA legends, like you, have the ability to do. Best wishes! Always pleased with our honorary associate. Madrid, go!”

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WHAT NEXT?

Doncic will return to action on Saturday night against the Sacramento Kings in the NBA. Whereas, Vinicius Jr. will take the pitch at the Canary Islands against Las Palmas in a La Liga encounter on the same day.