As mentioned yesterday, Dallas Mavericks guard Luka Dončić and his Foundation have held four-holiday surprises this week, helping nearly 275 children, teens, and newborn babies in North Texas and his homeland, Slovenia.

His Foundation helpers were at Cook Children’s Medical Center in Fort Worth bearing gifts for families with newborns in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). With Luka recognizing the heavy financial strains families suffer during a baby’s often long hospitalization, Dončić’s foundation provided financial support to NICU families in need of assistance with paying mortgages and rent, utility bills, car payments, and more. Treats, gifts, and hand-knit hats and blankets (created by a local knitting club) were distributed to the families of approximately 97 babies in the NICU. Mothers also were given gift cards for manicures and pedicures (offered onsite at the Mirror Mirror Salon in the hospital), and a professional photographer shot family portraits.

• The Luka Dončić Foundation also hosted holiday parties and distributed gifts to the 68 children and adolescents currently living at the Youth Care Center Malči Belič, Ljubljana, and 56 children and adolescents at the Residential and Counselling Institution Veržej, Slovenia (see details below in news release).
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• On Wednesday, Luka hosted 50 students from southern Dallas at the American Airlines Center as they watched the Dallas Mavericks play the LA Clippers. He arranged tickets, bus transportation, and a meal, plus a meet-and-greet along with gifts from NERF and Jordan Brand.

photo by Tracy Van Sickle