[From ESPN]

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. -- When Lakers star Luka Doncic recently returned to Dallas and was honored by his former team with a tribute video, he admitted there was one clip that struck him the most: his game-winning 3 over Minnesota Timberwolves center Rudy Gobert in last year's Western Conference finals.

Doncic will open his first playoff series with the Lakers on Saturday against the Wolves in Game 1 (8:30 p.m. ET, ABC) and said he will welcome the 7-1 Gobert trying to guard him again.

"Since I came to the league, I like to play pick-and-roll," Doncic said Thursday in his first comments about L.A.'s first-round series. "I like to get a center on me."

Lakers coach JJ Redick said that Gobert's status as a four-time Defensive Player of the Year only makes Doncic relish it more when the Minnesota big man is switched onto him.

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