Back in the day, heavyweight boxer Mike Tyson was one of the most awesome forces in all of sports.
He had a unique blend of speed, strength, power, and fury, and he had the ability to terrify opponents with his mere presence.
Right now, Luka Doncic is becoming more than just the superstar he has been for the last few years — he is becoming a terror in his own right.
After his Dallas Mavericks knocked out the Minnesota Timberwolves in a five-game Western Conference Finals series, he earned a Mike Tyson comparison from Emmanuel Acho on FS1’s “Speak.”
.@EmmanuelAcho: Luka is like Mike Tyson in his prime. pic.twitter.com/D8LVbHzqDQ
— Speak (@SpeakOnFS1) May 31, 2024
Some thought the Timberwolves would find a way to get a win on their home court in Game 5, but Doncic almost instantly made that impossible.
He scored 20 of his 36 points in the first quarter, outscoring the entire Timberwolves team by one, which propelled Dallas to a 124-103 win that was more lopsided than that final score would suggest.
That led Acho to say Doncic is a player who can knock out an opponent soon after a game starts, just as Tyson did in his prime during the mid-to-late 1980s.
The Mavs will now take on the Boston Celtics in the NBA Finals, and while the Celtics are favored, they do have some vulnerabilities.
They haven’t always shown a killer instinct, and they’re dealing with a calf strain that starting center Kristaps Porzingis suffered in the first round of the playoffs and still hasn’t fully recovered from.
If Doncic is truly deserving of comparisons to Tyson, he will go out and hammer the Celtics en route to his first NBA championship while making them look helpless.
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