Luka Doncic was once again formally recognized as one of the NBA’s best players.
The Lakers superstar guard was named to a 2025-26 All-NBA team on Sunday, receiving first-team honors.
The recognition marked the sixth time in Doncic’s eight-year career that he was named to an All-NBA team.
He was named All-NBA First Team in five consecutive seasons (2020-24).
The lone seasons Doncic hasn’t been named to an All-NBA team were his first season in the league, when he was named the 2019 Rookie of the Year, and after the 2024-25 season, when he was limited to 50 regular-season games.
Doncic, 27, won the scoring title for the second time in the last three seasons.
He led the league with a scoring average of 33.5 points to go with 8.3 assists, 7.7 rebounds and 1.6 steals.
Doncic was the lone player to be named the Western Conference Player of the Month twice in 2025-26, receiving the honor for his play in January and March.
Despite falling short of the 65 games-played threshold, Doncic was eligible for the league’s end-of-season awards voting, including All-NBA, after the NBA and NBPA announced last month that his Extraordinary Circumstances Challenge for the 65-game award rule was honored. He also finished fourth in the voting for league MVP, which Thunder superstar Shai Gilgeous-Alexander won for the second consecutive season.
Doncic played in 64 qualified games before suffering a regular-season-ending Grade 2 left hamstring strain during the Lakers’ loss to the Thunder on April 2. He missed two games in December because of the birth of his daughter in Europe, which qualified as an extraordinary circumstance according to the announcement.
His 2025-26 regular season was filled with historic achievements and accolades, as he reestablished himself as one of the league’s best players after a 2024-25 season that featured a lengthy absence because of a calf injury and the shocking trade to the Lakers in February 2025.
Doncic scored at least 40 points in the first three games he played to start the season. Wilt Chamberlain is the only other player in league history to reach the 40-point mark in their first three games of a season.
Despite LeBron James being sidelined for the first 14 games of the season because of sciatica, Doncic, along with fellow star guard Austin Reaves, led the Lakers to a 15-4 record through the season’s first six weeks. Doncic averaged a league-high 35.1 points in that stretch.
Doncic’s best stretch of the season came after he returned from a left hamstring injury after the All-Star break.
He averaged 35.8 points, 7.8 assists and 7.7 rebounds in the 21 games he played from Feb. 20-March 31. The Lakers went 16-5 in the games Doncic played during that stretch, including 14-2 in March.
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