Last spring, European powerhouse Real Madrid found itself in a familiar position, cruising toward a blowout win over then-No. 1 seed Unicaja Malaga. The game was out of reach, but a strange buzz filled the famed Barclaycard Center, a buzz only understood by those familiar with the date of birth of Luka Doncic.
A fair-skinned, blond-haired, baby-faced 6'8" Slovenian checked in at the scorer's table, and immediately he found the ball—really, the ball found him—in his first sequence.
"I told him not to think. If he sees the rim, shoot," recalls Zan Tabak, who nurtured Doncic last season as a Madrid assistant coach.
Witness the birth of a European legend in the making for yourself:
By merely gracing the floor, Doncic had become the youngest player ever to play a minute with European juggernaut Real Madrid, at just 16 years of age.
To be sure, this kind of precociousness isn't entirely novel in Spain. Doncic is the third-youngest player in Spanish history to make a varsity league appearance in the ACB, f ...
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