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Spurs's Doncic Laser-Focused on the Post-Season


SAN ANTONIO, TX - Though it's only November, Spurs superstar guard Luka Doncic told NBN Today his stellar performance so far this season doesn't distract him from his ultimate goal: going into the 2025 post-season with a season-ending injury.

"I'm not thinking about regular season stats or winning my second MVP right now," he shared. "I just have one goal this year, and it's to take this team to the Playoffs and then immediately hurt myself."

The former Maverick achieved a season-ending injury in the days leading up to the 2022 Playoffs, in what would be his last season with the franchise. The next year, 13 minutes into Game 1 in the Spurs' first-round match-up against Houston, Doncic was able to acquire an injury once again, sidelining himself for the remainder of the post-season. If he is able to repeat the feat for the third season, he would become the first player in NBN history to destroy his team's hopes and dreams three years in a row.

"It's a goal I'm working towards day-by-day," explained Doncic, who no longer consumes any dairy products. "Every regular season game, I'm feeling my bones get weaker. My joints getting flimsier, my skeleton gradually becoming riddled with micro-fractures. When May, June roll around, it's going to feel real organic, just like a really clean snap."

Doncic achieving back-to-back season-ending injuries.






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