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LOS ANGELES – The show wasn’t close to being over after the game and the dragon wasn’t done breathing fire.
Luka Doncic still looked a bit perturbed that a 21-year-old second-year player dared start engaging in trash talk with him, and even with his Lakers winning the game and Doncic finishing with 51 points, that’s likely why he continued throwing jabs.
“Someone started talking to me, so that woke me up,” Doncic told reporters late Thursday night after Los Angeles dismantled the Bulls.
Asked who it was, and Doncic knew exactly who it was, the guard instead chose the showmanship route, looking down at the scoresheet in front of him like he didn’t know the player’s name.