DALLAS -- It has been sixty years since the NBA has seen a season-opening scoring streak like Luka Doncic's sizzling start to the season.
Doncic has scored at least 30 points in each of the Dallas Mavericks' first seven games, the longest 30-point streak to start a season since Wilt Chamberlain in 1962-63. It's a feat that has only been accomplished three times previously, twice by Chamberlain and once by Jack Twyman.
Doncic is averaging a league-leading 36.1 points per game. According to ESPN Stats & Information research, that is the third highest-scoring average through seven games in the last 60 seasons behind Michael Jordan (37.