Wednesday’s Lakers-Mavericks NBA regular season game, which marked Lakers G Luka Doncic’s first game in Dallas since being traded at midseason, averaged 2.26 million viewers on ESPN — the network’s top audience of the season outside of Christmas and a sharp increase over Mavericks-Heat in the same window last year (1.23M). Somewhat surprisingly, Doncic’s return was not even their most-watched Laker game in the past week, trailing their matchup with Golden State on TNT last Thursday (2.5M).