# Lakers’ Luka Doncic receives league honor after explosive week

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/lakers-luka-doncic-receives-league-honor-after-explosive-week/
- Published: 2026-11-09T21:44:18+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-09T22:35:40+00:00
- Original publisher: New York Post (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://nypost.com/2026/11/09/sports/luka-doncic-wins-western-conference-player-of-the-week/
- Topics: Basketball, Sport, World

## Key points

- Dončić earned Western Conference Player of the Week.
- He averaged 45 points across three games.
- His 40.1-point season average is the league’s best.

## Summary

Luka Dončić was named the NBA’s Western Conference Player of the Week after a prolific run for the Los Angeles Lakers. His scoring helped the Lakers go 4-0 during the week, while extending a streak of four consecutive games with at least 40 points.

Across three games from 2 November, Dončić averaged 45 points, 8.3 assists, seven rebounds and 1.3 steals. He scored a season-high 53 points against Portland on Friday; the weekly award was his fifth as a Laker and 20th of his career. Through nine games this season, he was averaging a league-best 40.1 points, making him the first player since Wilt Chamberlain in 1962-63 to average at least 40 through a season’s first nine games. Jalen Brunson won the Eastern Conference award.

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