Luka Doncic and Dallas Mavericks will face off next season, but their showdown will spread over the course of several months.
With the 2025-26 NBA season putting its schedule, fans know when it will match up with some of the season’s biggest games.
For Los Angeles Lakers fans, they are hoping to clash with the Golden State Warriors during the opening night.
But of course, La Lakers fans will be even more excited by the prospect of seeing Luka Doncic face off against his former team, Dallas Mavericks.
Luckily for fans, they have won four such encounters next season, spreading across different points of the NBA season.
With the NBA schedule coming out, we know when the LA Lakers and Dallas Mavericks will face each other during next season.
Here is the complete breakdown of the four scheduled encounters during the 2025-26 NBA season:
| Fixture (a at h) | date |
| Lakers’ Mavericks | November 28th |
| The Mavericks Lakers | January 24th |
| Lakers’ Mavericks | February 12th |
| The Mavericks Lakers | April 5th |
Fans will need to wait a month to start the regular season and watch Luka Donsic face the Mavericks and his successor, Cooper Flag.
It is interesting to note that his first visit to the Mavericks next season is shy for just a week of the controversial trade anniversary that sent Don Sic to the Lakers.
In four games against the Dallas Mavericks next season, Luka Donsic has many opportunities to prove Nico Harrison wrong to trade him.
It’s hard to imagine Doncic being ready to let things go. And considering the form that Donsic has in it, Harrison’s criticism is still in his mind.
Hopefully, Luka will use his motivation and hopefully maintain his discipline for the rest of the season. When it comes to the Mavericks, moving on from the big failure is their number one concern.
There’s a new face in the Cooper Flag and the franchise, and the Mavericks are in a good place. But the conflict between Doncic and Mavericks is exciting for fans to watch.