Mavs’ Luka Doncic Came Down with Illness After Game 1, on ‘Little Sleep’ for Game 2

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Dallas Mavericks point guard Luka Doncic “is not 100 percent” for Game 2 of his team’s Western Conference Finals matchup against the Golden State Warriors on Friday at Chase Center because of an illness, according to TNT’s Allie LaForce.

“He [Doncic] just told me about an hour ago that he didn’t feel sick until after he got to the hotel after Game 1,” LaForce said on Inside the NBA (h/t Ali Thanawalla of NBC Sports Bay Area). She added:

“Gets to his room and he’s throwing up, he cannot sleep for even a second. So he wasn’t 100 percent at practice the next day. I said, ‘Well, did you get better sleep last night?’ and he said ‘Eh, not really.’ I said, ‘Well, did you sleep eight hours?’ And he said, ‘No, but I did get better sleep than the night before.’ So he is on very little sleep. He did sound stuffed up to me still. He is not 100 percent.”

Doncic had 20 points on 6-of-18 shooting and seven turnovers in a 112-87 loss in Game 1 on Wednesday.

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