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Lakers' Luka Doncic relieved first game vs. Mavs is behind him

LOS ANGELES -- After Luka Doncic led the Lakers to a 107-99 win over his former team on Tuesday -- becoming just the third player to record a triple-double against every NBA franchise in the process -- the star guard's tone during his postgame news conference wasn't triumphant.

No, Doncic sounded more relieved than anything.

"It was just a lot of emotions and not much sleep," he said of the game coming just three and a half weeks after he was traded from the Dallas Mavericks to L.A. "I can't even explain [it].