Mavericks guard Luka Doncic and Bulls forward DeMar DeRozan have been named the NBA’s Players of the Week for the Western Conference and Eastern Conference, respectively, the league announced today (via Twitter).
Surprisingly, it’s the first time this season that Doncic has been named a Player of the Week. He left no doubt that he deserved the honor, averaging an eye-popping 43.0 PPG in three games between February 7-13. He put up a shooting line of .532/.500/.707 in those three contests, chipping in 10.3 RPG and 8.3 APG.
Doncic scored an incredible 96 points in two games vs. the Clippers, though Dallas couldn’t pull out a win on Saturday vs. Los Angeles despite his 45 points and 15 rebounds. The Mavericks had a 2-1 week.
DeRozan, meanwhile, became the first player in either conference to win a Player of the Week award for a third time in 2021/22. He led the Bulls to a 3-1 week, averaging 36.8 PPG, 5.5 RPG, and 4.8 APG on .598/.429/.829 shooting in 37.8 MPG. Chicago’s only loss of the week was a nail-biter against Phoenix last Monday.
Devin Booker, Chris Paul, Donovan Mitchell, Ja Morant, Dejounte Murray, and Anfernee Simons were the other Western Conference nominees for this week’s award. In the East, DeRozan beat out fellow nominees Bam Adebayo, Jarrett Allen, Joel Embiid, LaMelo Ball, Pascal Siakam, and Jayson Tatum (Twitter link).
lol demar is showing why lakers went with the wrong guy
You’re about 2 months behind my friend
And someone said he was the worst signing and wont fit with zach lavine..lol…
Best iso shooter since MJ, or prime Melo.
Luka is overwhelmingly deserving of it… in the EC I would have picked up Embiid instead of DMDR, but there we are, right?
DeMar solidified his game in San Antonio, definitely proving to be his best career move so he can step onto a contender and dictate games. His confidence boost from just 2 seasons ago is deservingly huge. As for Lakers not taking the jump for DeMar, it was obviously lucky that DeMar ended up with a real coach. Vogel’s only success came during Bubble Chip that everyone knows Bron was defacto coach. The incredibly poor coaching in L.A. scandal is how it goes on this long. So DeMar definitely has nothing to be bitter about, especially if they win out. Levine’s injuries hopefully can be overcome because definitely would be nice to see DeMar getting the accolades he fully deserves.