{"id":562865,"date":"2026-01-26T23:23:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T23:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/562865\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T23:23:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T23:23:13","slug":"nba-names-doncic-western-conference-player-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/562865\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Names Don\u010di\u0107 Western Conference Player of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NBA named Luka Donic the Western Conference Player of the Week for the 16th time in his career<\/p>\n<p>On the two-year anniversary of his 73-point night, the NBA named Luka Don\u010di\u0107 Western Conference player of the week.<\/p>\n<p>The Lakers guard averaged 34.3 PPG, 10.7 RPG and 9.7 APG as Los Angeles went 2-1 from Jan. 19-25. This is the second time he\u2019s won this award as a Laker and the third time in his career. On the season, he\u2019s averaging a league-leading 33.4 PPG, 7.8 RPG and 8.7 APG in 36 games and is ranked third in the MVP ladder.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Los Angeles Lakers guard Luka Don\u010di\u0107 and Toronto Raptors guard Immanuel Quickley have been named the NBA Western and Eastern Conference Players of the Week, respectively, for Week 14 of the 2025-26 season (Jan. 19-25). <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cyrXA2N46M\">pic.twitter.com\/cyrXA2N46M<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA Communications (@NBAPR) <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBAPR\/status\/2015884968937893999?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 26, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In Don\u010di\u0107\u2019s first game of the week, he had a triple-double where he scored 38 points, 13 rebounds and 10 assists, while also having two steals as the Lakers defeated the Denver Nuggets 115-107. This was Doncic\u2019s 52nd career 30-point triple-double, which ranks second all-time, according to the NBA. This is Don\u010di\u0107\u2019s fourth 30-point triple-double of the season, joining Lebron James and Magic Johnson as the only Lakers to have four 30-point triple-doubles in a season.<\/p>\n<p>Two days later, Doncic had 32 points, 11 rebounds and eight assists as the Lakers fell to the Los Angeles Clippers 112-104. Doncic then closed out the week against his former team, the Dallas Mavericks, with 38 points, 11 rebounds and eight assists, as Doncic is now 4-0 against his former team.<\/p>\n<p>The Lakers\u2019 next game is Jan. 26 at 5:00 p.m. against the Chicago Bulls at the United Center in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NBA named Luka Donic the Western Conference Player of the Week for the 16th time in his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":562866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3790],"tags":[7,4034,1698,300,4044,251,150,4033,4043,41948,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-562865","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-lakers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-la","10":"tag-la-lakers","11":"tag-lakers","12":"tag-lalakers","13":"tag-los-angeles","14":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","15":"tag-losangeles","16":"tag-losangeleslakers","17":"tag-luka-doni","18":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115963980440999553","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}