It’s not Christmas time yet, but Canadian basketball fans received a lump of coal early with the news Luka Doncic would miss his lone game in the country this season.

At least it wasn’t just for the dreaded load management, which sees players rest for reasons real or imagined.

Doncic, the Slovenian superstar who is averaging an absurd 35.3 points per game, which would be the 10th-most for a season ever, went home as his wife is about to give birth to a child.

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That’s a shame for fans who paid top dollar hoping to see a player that has accomplished more by age 26 than nearly anybody else in history. He might not be a high-flying or lightning-quick player, but Doncic is a hoops maestro who bends the game to his will on a nightly b

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