Luka Dončić in Goran Dragić

Slovenian Basketball Virtuosos

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Luka Dončić is a Slovenian basketball wonder boy, whom the Times magazine ranked among the most influential future sports stars.

As the captain at the European Basketball Championship in 2017, Goran Dragić led the Slovenian national team to the title of European champions. 

At the age of 13, Luka Dončić transferred to the Real Madrid basketball club. He made his debut on April 30, 2015, when he became the youngest player in the history of Real Madrid in the match against Unicaja. Just as he came of age, he helped the Slovenian national team achieve the greatest success in the history of Slovenian team sports, become European champions in 2017. Later at the Olympic Games in Tokyo 2021, the national team reached 4th place under his leadership. In 2018, he became the twelfth Slovenian basketball player to be selected in the NBA league. He signed to the Dallas Mavericks and has been writing his basketball fairytale ever since. Luka Dončić is currently the only one in the world who managed to collect three triple-doubles in a total of seven games. Not only that, he is one of three basketball players in history who managed to reach a triple-double with at least 30 points before reaching the age of 23 and the only one to do so twice before the age of 23.

Goran Dragić is the only Slovene with the title of the most useful player in the European Championship and the first Slovene to play in the NBA All-Star match. In February 2017, he surpassed 3,000 assists scored in all of the NBA games to date. In addition, the left-handed basketball player has been shining since 2015 at the Miami Heat Club, where he made his way to the grand finals of the best basketball club competition in 2020. Apart from being talented, Dragić is hard-working, selfless and respectful towards his teammates.

Luka Dončić has 200 pairs of different trainers in his wardrobe. He cheers for Real Madrid football club, loves adrenaline parks and is known for his charity. As fans affectionately call him, Gogi or \"The Dragon\" founded the Goran Dragić Foundation in 2020. He raises funds to build and renovate basketball courts in Slovenia and supports socially or physically disadvantaged children.
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