He's got that headband on tonight

Luka Doni wanted to be like LeBron James growing up. He has now become something akin to him, the closest facsimile that the league has seen since James entered the league. Because those things are true, it seems reasonable, perhaps even destined, that Doni would also want to become what James is now. That the

Luka Dončić wanted to be like LeBron James growing up. He has now become something akin to him, the closest facsimile that the league has seen since James entered the league. Because those things are true, it seems reasonable, perhaps even destined, that Dončić would also want to become what James is now. That the 23-year-old Dončić who’s mimicking the 23-year-old James will one day be a 38-year-old statesman commanding the same double teams, reaching for the same all-time records, perhaps even losing to the league’s next 23-year-old wunderkind.

Except Dončić, for all the similarities, isn’t sure he wants that.

“I have no goals,” he said Thursday. “Twenty years, that’s a lot of years. I’m going to go to my farm.”

Dončić has repeated this line about his future Slovenian farm several times when asked about the all-time record James is on the verge of breaking. He doesn’t own that farm just yet, but one of his friends back in Slovenia does.

“(He has) milk, vegetables, cheese, everything,” Dončić said.

That’s the life he envisions for himself when he’s 38, not competing with some young buckaroo in their first few years in the league, not even if he’s the legend to whom the player is being compared. For Dončić, he can’t even fathom being in this league long enough to accomplish what James is soon expected to.

“If you’re saying me, there’s no way, because I’m not playing that much,” Dončić said last month when someone began to ask him about that scenario.

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(Photo: USA Today)

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