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Basketball is about feelings: Learning how to lose in Europe taught Luka Dončić how to win

Related Topics: Luka Doncic, Victor Wembanyama

Failure is an important step on the path to becoming a winning player and a winning team.

Though it’s not very fun to watch a team failing, it’s a necessary process in developing a winning mindset. If you’re a winning player, who knows how to act in clutch moments, knows what it takes to reach the top as a player and with a team - you have spent a long time failing first.

Luka Donu010diu0107 is one of those winning players. He’s shown that with Real Madrid and with the Slovenian national team. Even though his rise to superstardom seems flawless, it’s not.