07-06-2026, 04:12 PM
(07-06-2026, 03:54 PM)Chicagojk Wrote: In an article from the Athletic that I can't read, Larrea calls Doncic his boyhood idol.
He had visited the US before coming over after the draft and today is at Jerry's world rooting for his home country Spain in the world cup. Pretty cool.
That’s the paragraph you mean - he was interviewed after his first training session for the summer league. He came with his girlfriend, they were positively impressed with the city and he‘s in the stadium right now enjoying the win of Spain against Portugal.
Secret hint: you can easily read The Athletic articles switching to the reader option in Safari on an iPhone.
On Monday, fresh off going through his first summer-league practice with the Mavericks, De Larrea said that his fandom for the team stemmed from watching Luka Dončić, the stepback-3-loving Slovenian who first began to break out as a star with the Spanish club Real Madrid.
“I saw Luka when he came from Madrid to here,” said De Larrea, who was born in Valladolid, about an hour northwest of Madrid via train. “He was for me, like, my idol in my younger era. For that reason, I was a Maverick fan a long time ago.”