Admin he’s doing it sideways!

In the last 12 games or so he is

I still can’t believe we didn’t give Harden mvp that year. Luka is on a tear and still not scoring as easily or as much as harden did for months! and harden didn’t have a lebron or austin reaves

fair enough

He just has to stick to somewhat contested deep 3s. None of that open right behind the line pussy ass bullshit.

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That’s a big if

Does this mean get rid of the old guy makin like 55 mil

I’m pretty sure with the way Luka plays he probably will never lead a number 1 seed in regular season

What realistically are good targets for the Lakers in the off season? I feel like they need to go after a really good defender who can be #3 on offense and they’ll be contenders but I’m not sure if there’s anybody like that they can get

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“On/off is context dependent, unlike the Lakers record in the 12 games Luka missed (half of which LeBron also missed).”

The Clippers are 4-12 without Kawhi and 34-24 with him. Is that good?

First season of Jokic’s prime where his team doesn’t fall off a cliff without him and it’s his down year so how does that prove anything.

I’m a Lakers fan, so I could easily white knight that Luka should be MVP

But I also have always been perfectly fine of the old school “best player on the best team” narrative

Not only is Shai the best player on the best team that will inevitably win 60 games. He’s also historically efficient for a guard, has the record for most 20 point games in a row. Shai also has the most 30 point games in under 30 minutes played. And lastly, isn’t considered a liability on defense like Jokic and Luka are considered.

And yea MVP is a regular season award, but offseason and previous season narratives can tip it in your favor. Well, Shai is the reigning MVP and defending NBA champion. So this season can be viewed as him extending his dominance.

Huh? Only guy among which group?

Goes to show nothing. The other guys missed games against tanking teams.

When the 65 game limit rule is there, using win percentage for teams missing their best player is useless. The sample size is far too small to even compare. A 12-15 game sample size from way earlier in the season shouldn’t be the metric for who does and doesn’t deserve to be in MVP conversations. It’s all ridiculous

Difference is Luka can actually lead his team to a finals

I mean a lot of us were claiming he should’ve been MVP.

he won mvp the year before that, and was 2nd in mvp voting that year. Plenty of people on here thought harden should’ve won it over giannis.

Luka isn’t going to win it either.

That combo guard was demonised by the media and it’s a shame he only got 1 MVP. The media absolutely hates Luka’s play style which is very similar to Hardens.

Yeah, we were saying the same thing then too. He got robbed.

All the “Nico was right” posters have scurried back into their hidey holes

Or maybe they’re just over at /r/nbatalk

https://np.reddit.com/r/NBATalk/comments/1pxbf3f/nico_was_right/

Reeves

Bron will have games

Luka has always been a playoff riser. Bro has had 1 bad playoff series in his career.

But still lose because of defence…

He also didn’t win MVP in 24 with better stats in every category. Curiously this is now a travesty because he’s on the Lakers.

If the MVP award was just the month of March, congrats Luka. Luka deserves his flowers, but why are we acting like his stock isn’t higher because of the first two-thirds of the season?

he’s 100% the mvp. The award belongs to him whether the media gives it to him or not.

Also as great as wemby is and will continue to be, he shouldn’t be considered this year, given he’s played less minutes than lebron who doesn’t even qualify for awards this season due to lack of games.

I’m sure he’ll win a few, but not this year.

Gonna tell us 59% 2PT and 39% 3PT is bad now?

I mean I did link the stat muse but 25.9 shots a game.

How many points per game?

Haha Spurs fans so whinny these last few weeks. Guess your boy running to whine to the media about MVP also has his team fans up in arms.

I do think it’s funny how hard they are pushing for him to win. It reminds me of Embiid. He and is team are really pushing hard for the MVP.

dumbest comment of the day

Going on a giant winning streak as he shoots and scores more then ever tells me the impact is probably there.

Ow that’s why they are only 3 seed

It’s not unimpactful. That’s stupid. the real claim is that heliocentric play, as a meta, can’t win a championship. Like people claimed jump shooting couldn’t (until it did). It hasn’t yet but we’ve really only seen harden and Luka do it to this degree and this isn’t really something that more than maybe a handful of guys can ever do so. We’ll see.