Next on Planet Luka

Lots of Luka Dončić and role players who complement him so well got the Mavericks to the Western Conference finals. Work on the changes they need to go deeper starts now

SAN FRANCISCO — There is something about NBA teams in the Lone Star State and the lone-star roster constructions that have flourished there.

Hakeem Olajuwon was the sole All-Star around which the Houston Rockets orbited when they won their first NBA championship in 1993-94. It proved so untraditional to win that way, and so difficult to repeat, that the …