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Mavs Owner Mark Cuban Roasts Lil Wayne For Luka Doncic Trash Talk

Rapper Lil Wayne talked trash to Luka Doncic on Twitter earlier in the Dallas Mavericks’ series against the Phoenix Suns. Doncic, and Mark Cuban got the last laugh.
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Mavs Owner Mark Cuban Roasts Lil Wayne For Luka Doncic Trash Talk
Mavs Owner Mark Cuban Roasts Lil Wayne For Luka Doncic Trash Talk

During Game 4 of the Dallas Mavericks’ Western Conference semifinals series with the Phoenix Suns, rapper Lil Wayne took a shot at Luka Doncic on social media while watching Dallas handle Phoenix at American Airlines Center for the second game in a row.

“Luka a ho,” tweeted Wayne, as Doncic went on to put up 26 points, seven rebounds and 11 assists in the Mavs 111-101 win to tie the series at 2-2.

As the series eventually went to a winner-take-all Game 7 in Phoenix on Sunday night, Wayne was sitting courtside in hopes of seeing Chris Paul and Devin Booker put the Mavs away. 

Instead, he witnessed a solar eclipse, as Dallas blew out Phoenix to the tune of 123-90. Mavs owner Mark Cuban took the opportunity to roast Wayne for what he said about Doncic in the perfect way… with lyrics from Wayne’s song, “Uproar.”

Paul and Booker finished Game 7 with 11 and 10 points respectively. The duo shot a combined 7-22 shooting from the field, including 1-7 from 3-point range. Booker committed four turnovers in his first ever Game 7.

Booker also did his fair share of trash talking throughout the series. It started in Game 1 when he blocked Jalen Brunson, then called him “soft as f—.” Then in Game 5, Booker flopped, which resulted in a flagrant foul being assessed to Dorian Finney-Smith. Booker looked up to the fans sitting on the front row and called what he did, “The Luka Special.”

After the those incidents, the Suns taking a 3-2 series lead, and Doncic walked off the Footprint Center court after Game 5 uttering the phrase, “everyone acting tough when they up!”

Doncic followed that up by averaging 34 points, 10.5 rebounds, six assists and three steals in the final two games of the series, sending the Mavs to the Western Conference Finals for the first time since 2011. Doncic shot 51.1 percent from the field in that span, including 42.1 percent from deep.

Moral of the story: whether you’re a celebrity, opposing player, or random fan in the stands, it’s probably not a smart idea to provoke Luka Doncic.

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Dalton Trigg
DALTON TRIGG

Dalton Trigg is the Editor-In-Chief for Dallas Basketball, as well as the Executive Editor overseeing Inside The Rockets, Inside The Spurs, All Knicks, and The Magic Insider. He is the founder and host for the Mavs Step Back Podcast, which is a proud part of the Blue Wire podcast network. Trigg graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi’s College of Business and Economic Development with a bachelor’s degree in entrepreneurship in 2016. After spending a few years with multiple Dallas Mavericks-related blogs, including SB Nation’s Mavs Moneyball, Trigg joined DallasBasketball.com as a staff writer in 2018 and never looked back. At the start of 2022, he was promoted to the EIC title he holds now. Through the years, Trigg has conducted a handful of high-profile one-on-one interviews to add to his resume — in both writing and podcasting. Some of his biggest interviews have been with Mavs owner Mark Cuban, Mavs GM Nico Harrison, now-retired legend Dirk Nowitzki and many other current/former players and team staffers. Many of those interviews and other articles by Trigg have been aggregated by other well-known sports media websites, such as Yahoo Sports, CBS Sports, Bleacher Report and others. You can find Trigg on all major social media channels, but his most prevalent platform is on Twitter. Whether it’s posting links to his DBcom work, live-tweeting Mavs games or merely giving his opinions on things going on with Dallas and the rest of the NBA, the daily content never stops rolling. For any inquiries, please email Dalton@MavsStepBack.com.

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