Luka Doncic’s Controversial Move: Ejects Suns Fan Over Minor Issue, Engages in Heated Exchange with Reporter in Aftermath

Photo of Luka Doncic staring into stands and photo of Luka Doncic speaking to reporters

Dallas Mavericks star Luka Doncic was involved in an argument with a reporter after having a fan ejected from Wednesday night’s game against the Phoenix Suns for a seemingly weak reason.

The Mavericks were blown out 132-109 and Luka must have endured a frustrating night. With his team down double digits in the fourth quarter, he had the fan tossed.

According to ESPN’s Tim McMahon, who was sitting two rows ahead of the fan, the trash talk was pretty tame.

“Luka, you’re tired! Get your A- on the treadmill!” he was quoted as saying.

Luka Doncic asked security to eject this Suns fan, who was sitting two rows behind midcourt press row. The comment the fan made that drew Doncic’s wrath: “Luka, you’re tired! Get your ass on the treadmill!” pic.twitter.com/chNYwiJBC0

— Tim MacMahon (@espn_macmahon) January 25, 2024

Doncic and McMahon had a bit of a back-and-forth in his post-game presser as the Slovenian guard claimed that there was more to it.

“He was cursing me the whole first half, too,” he said. “I never would eject a fan. They pay for tickets. But I had enough, it’s a little bit of frustration.”McMahon asked what exactly the fan said to him but he opted not to repeat, instead claiming that he expected the ESPN staffer to be the first to bring it up as he always writes negative stuff about him.

Luka Dončić and Tim MacMahon go back and forth about him tweeting about Luka asking for a fan to be ejected in the second half, after cursing at him the whole game.

Luka: “You’ll be the first one to always put something bad about me.” pic.twitter.com/eAIRbKyVkn

— Landon Thomas (@sixfivelando) January 25, 2024

The reporter countered by saying that most of his content involving Luka is positive while noting he and the fan were only two rows apart and he didn’t hear anything apart from the “fat” trash talk, also pointing out that he was not the only member of the press to tweet about the incident.The Mavs are back in action against the Atlanta Hawks on Friday night.