Mavs Luka Doncic and Jason Kidd speak to the media on June 4, 2024.
BOSTON — Luka Doncic has playing in next month's Paris Olympics in his plans, provided his knees allow him to go through more games and help Slovenia qualify shortly after a season in which he and theSlovenia on Wednesday released a list of 16 players including Doncic who are candidates to be on the team that will play in an Olympic qualifying tournament in Greece starting on July 2.
“If it's good, I'm going to go play,” Doncic said Wednesday at NBA Finals media day in Boston, saying the knee issue that he's been playing through in the playoffs would be the only foreseeable obstacle.has represented Slovenia on a number of international stages, including the Tokyo Olympics that were moved back to 2021 because of the pandemic.
The league's reigning scoring champion was told Wednesday that, depending on the length of the NBA Finals, he would be playing between 90 and 95 games this season. Doncic views the number as even higher.If the series between Dallas and the Boston Celtics goes the full seven games, Doncic would still be playing on June 23.
Doncic scored 48 points in his Olympic debut game in 2021, tying for the second most in any men's Olympic game and finishing seven shy of matching the record of 55 set by Brazil's Oscar Schmidt in 1988. There are eight teams already with berths for the 12-team Olympic men’s field. France qualified as the host nation, and seven other teams — the four-time defending gold medalist U.S., World Cup champion Germany, Canada, Japan, South Sudan, Serbia and Australia — qualified based on their finishes at last summer's World Cup in the Philippines.that'll compete from July 2-7 for the other four spots.
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