Archx wrote:You can't control everything in life and we actually never heard that he is driving fast or anything like that. When he is filming his music, he is mostly driving really slow or standing at the traffic lights. Even professional drivers have serious accidents, so most of the time, it's not even your fault when you crash. Sh*t just happens.
I'm trying to remember, for certain. So, I'm not 100% sure, but I think in the Mina Kimes pieces she did on Luka prior to the '18 draft, for ESPN the Magazine, I think she did talk about Luka driving pretty fast through the streets of Barcelona. I'm like 99.9% sure she said he was driving some really expensive sports car capable of doing 200+ mph or whatever. I'm pretty sure that's where that idea in my head came from.
But, come'on bro. You didn't drive like a wild man when you were that age? There's a reason auto insurance is sky high for men under the age of 25.
I know myself. I got 3 speeding tickets before my 17th birthday. All 3 of them for exceeding the speed limit by 30 mph, so they were expensive. I had a part-time job at a fast food restaurant and literally 1/3 of my income that year went to the City of Allen for speeding tickets!
I didn't even learn my lesson. When I was 19, I was doing 105 mph (in a car that you should never try to drive 105mph in. It was like a 1985 Plymouth Grand Fury smh lol). I was on some country highway between Fort Worth & Abilene. County Sheriff spots me going the other direction and I see him cut across the grass separating both directions of travel, and there's a hill coming up, so I get the bright idea that if I can just beat him to the other side of the hill, then he won't see me turn off the road & keep chasing me down the highway.
I do beat him to the hill. I turn off on a side road and pull behind some barn. About 2 minutes later, this sheriff pulls up to me, gets out of his car with his gun drawn and tells me to slowly get out of my vehicle. (I guess driving down dirt road & kicking up dust isn't the best for not leaving a trail of where you've been LOL).
I was really, REALLY fortunate that he didn't take me to jail that night. I think he looked at me, saw the wet spot in the front of my pants and the fear of God on my face and had mercy on me. I never drove like an **** on the highway since.
But, it took an experience like that for me to actually learn my lesson. I mean, Jesus Christ, people call Luka a God in basketball sneakers. You don't think he feels untouchable? I did at 20. You don't think about death or anything serious like that. No European basketball player should be able to forget the loss of Drazen Petrovic, which goes to your point about another driver. But, still I'd rather have a guy whose been driving in Dallas for the last 25 years. Some limo driver in his late 40s that depends on the safe transport of Luka Doncic for his family's income. I'd rather have that guy behind the wheel of Luka's car, than himself.
Dirk said in an interview a couple years ago that one of the things he looked forward to doing when he retired was going skiing in Europe with his family. Because it was not permitted in his contract i.e. Sonny Bono. So, adding those kinda things to a player's contract can be effective.
I don't see why anyone would take the "eh, whatever. Kids will be kids approach". When you can at least try to reduce the risk.
