Lakers’ Luka Doncic receives league honor after explosive week

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.