Los Angeles Lakers All-NBA and All-Star guard Luka Doncic went scorched earth in March.
The Lakers (50-26) went 15-2 in March, including a nine-game winning streak. During a six-game road trip that concluded last week, according to ESPN’s Dave McMenamin, “Doncic is the first player to average 40 points over a six-game span, all on the road, since Michael Jordan in 1986.”
On March 19, Doncic became the first Laker to bucket 60 points in a game since the late great Kobe Bryant did it in his final NBA game on April 13, 2016. Last Friday against Brooklyn, he surpassed 100 total steals on the season, making him the first Laker to do so since Bryant in the 2012-13 season, per the Lakers.
The one hiccup was that Doncic picked up his 16th technical foul of the season against Brooklyn, which resulted in a one-game suspension from the NBA. He served it by missing Los Angeles’ 120-101 win over the visiting Washington Wizards.
But Doncic was back like he never left on Tuesday, March 31, when the Cleveland Cavaliers came to town. Doncic scored 42 points on 13-of-26 shooting (6-of-13 from three) along with 12 assists, five rebounds, and two steals in the Lakers’ 127-113 win.
In doing so, Doncic eclipsed 15,000 career points, as announced by the Lakers. Doncic is the only Laker in franchise history to post 2,000-plus points, 500-plus assists, and 100-plus steals in a single season.
According to StatMuse, Doncic’s March can only be compared to Michael Jordan, as they are the only two players to have recorded 500-plus points, 100-plus rebounds, 100-plus assists, and 35-plus steals in a single month. The last four NBA players with a 600-point month are Doncic, Jordan, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and James Harden, per StatMuse.
Dallas Mavericks fans will want to avert their eyes for this last factoid.
StatMuse also shared that Doncic’s 600 points in March are more than Anthony Davis scored (587) during his short-lived Mavs tenure. The Mavericks traded Doncic to the Lakers in exchange for Davis in a three-team blockbuster trade involving the Utah Jazz in February 2025.
Doncic is closing in on his second career NBA scoring title. As of this writing, he’s averaging 33.7 points. The last time he won the scoring title in 2024, he averaged 33.9 points for a Mavs team that reached the NBA Finals, losing to the Boston Celtics.
The Lakers’ 2025-26 fate remains to be determined, but their ceiling has risen exponentially over the past month. With six games left to play in the regular season, Los Angeles is the No. 3 seed in the Western Conference. The NBA playoffs tip off on April 18.
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