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The thing is if you replace Nash with other great players that Suns team isn’t as good, so this comparison is horrible.

God this is all.so boring and annoying. Talk about the fucking game

Like it or not until Luka wins a championship and MVP SGA will be considered ahead of him

Nobody ACTUALLY cares that much for “who had the worse team” in all-time rankings you don’t see anyone putting KG in their top 10 even though talentwise he was probably quite close to Duncan’s level

The only time rings are contextualized to this extreme are KD with the Warriors and even in that unique case you’ll find that he jumped like 10-15 spots on published all-time lists after his rings there

I remember Harden vs. Curry used to be discussed like this back in the late 2010s and now not a single soul cares that Harden averaged more PPG nobody considers him even in the same galaxy in overall legacy

This dude also claimed Jokic to be the worst MVP ever, his takes should be taken with a massive grain of salt 😆

Using that playoff H2H match up is dumb. Especially if you’re going to discredit SGA for having a better team around him now.

Kyrie was a big reason the Mavs got by the far more playoff inexperienced Thunder in that series. SGA had no one around him with that sort of talent or playoff experience. Oh, and then there was PJ Washington….

Wasn’t sga kinda dominating that series vs the Mavs? More the rest of his team that didn’t deliver? It’s been a while so maybe I’m wrong.

Anyways this argument is dumb. Teams play around Luka and sga very differently. It would be a different team. These hypothetical teams where if Luka / Jokic were on OKC instead don’t work… Also kinda hard to discredit SGAs previous season. He quite literally won everything he could other than a dpoy or all defense team.

SGA really does live rent free lol

Draymond Green beat Lebron 3 out of 5 playoff series so clearly Draymond is better than Lebron.

Not the if we put Luka on the thunder talk

Shai played better than Luka in that series lmao. Shai’s supporting cast was horrible that series.

Comparing Shai to Nash is horrid lmao. Shai is quite literally having one of the most efficient seasons of all time, and carried OKC to the 1 seed despite his 2nd best player being out pretty much the whole season.

Shai outplayed Luka in every single possible statistical category in that series on both sides of the ball btw

Shai was the best player in that series tho…

they lost cause dallas role players made their shots, OKC role players did not

Shai - 32/8/7 on 60% TS

Luka - 25/11/9 on 57% TS

but i don’t disagree that Luka on the thunder win last year, and are the mavs this year

but completely disagree with the Nash/best player in the league stuff

Giving luka credit for winning one playoff series against the thunder when sga out played him on an individual level but not giving sga credit for being the best player on an actual championship team. Right

I hate SGA and the Thunder as much as anyone but even I question the assumption that OKC would be just as good with Luka in SGA’s spot. So much of what makes them great is how well they play as a team on both sides of the ball.

They also played in fiba world cup and shai smacked him like a little bitch

I’m pretty sure shai was the only one in that thunder team that was actually good. If his team hit a shot once in a while they’d have won that series

Not a terrible take but then he compares SGA to Nash 😭

SGA is closer to MJ than Nash right now.

SGA outplayed him that series

The funny thing about this is SGA completely outplayed Luka when they met in the playoffs.

If PJ Washington didnt turn into Prime Klay Thompson the Thunder wouldve gotten the Mavs outta there in 5.

Absolutely hilarious, and utterly wrong, take.

MVP talk is exhausting. Can we keep these posts off until the MVP candidate H2H matchups coming up soon? These threads go no where lol

If he wants to have that opinion that’s valid, but bringing up a series where SGA was the best player as his reasoning is interesting

Nick Wright is a moron if you compare Luka and SGA especially to playoffs Luka has 0 championships while SGA has won 1. Also Luka isn’t the reason why Dallas beat Oklahoma City in the playoffs it was because of players like PJ Washington and the bench playing well.

SGA fits better in a system, and flat out smarter on defense. Intangibles also favor Shai.

As far as being able to get buckets, they’re about equal. Both are dogs. I really like them both but hate Luka being in LA with Bron riding his coattails.

They’re chumming the waters then hooking sharks with click bait

NBA fans can unite on this one: Nick Weight and Stephen A are trash sports journalists / talking heads, and we all wonder how the heck did they get their jobs? There doesn’t appear to be much qualification other than being a loud mouth.

SGA was better in that series but Nick never actually talks about the specifics of the series. PJ washington KILLED OKC in that series and was just as important for those 6 games as Luka.

To compare him to Nash, which insinuates that the difference between Luka and SGA is as big as the difference in Kobe and Nash was is unreal insane.

You can think Luka is better. You can think he’s the best player in the world. It’s close. You can’t think there’s a significant gap between the two and expect people to treat your opinion with any sort of respect.

Luka is an unreal player. All time level talent on the offensive end of the floor. This comparison shit only makes fans more divided instead of focusing on what we should: basketball is peaking with an all time high amount of elite talent in the league at once.

I don’t care if you think Shai, Jokic, Luka, or Wemby is the best player on earth, I care that as a fan I get to watch those four guys at the same time.

If you put this SGA on the Mavs team Luka took to the finals, he wins in 6.

A lot of players won MVP without being the best. LeBron not caring much about the regular season allowed loads of players to win the award despite it being so obvious that LeBron was the best player in the world.

When you have Nick Wright taking your side, you know you have already lost the argument.

nick is such a fanboy

Reminds me of he bashed Jokic MVP’s before he won the title. Although saying it after SGA won the title is extra dumb.

I think they’re both on the same tier/level but you have to give the reigning MVP and FMVP the benefit of being above his peer…

What he say fuck Nash for?

Dude gave absolutely zero evidence or reasoning.

Just fyi these takes are due to a personal bet he had with his best friend Danny Parkins live on air. They bet who would have more mvp and final mvp between Luka and Shai. Nick wright offended at the wager took it immediately for Luka. While Danny picked Shai. Every basketball take I’ve seen from him since then makes me think of this cause it makes the logic track on why he would say it.

Weird. If SGA is in LA they are probably favourites too.

I’d still take Jokic over both of them.

Nick Wright is so dumb and annoying that he automatically makes whatever side of the argument on wrong, even if he’s right.

If y’all weren’t sure of the debate now, Wright just settled it by speaking on it publicly. SGA is now officially the MVP.

Only the Canadian MVPs are frauds…hmmm

I will not stand for these out of pocket Nash strays

Why does anyone care what Nick Wright says?

ngl shai kinda won that head to head just on a personal performance base, not that Luka dint play well he played the best he could on one leg. He was playing injured and watching Lu Dort guard him started my early hate train on that mf

Can’t we just appreciate that they’re both historically great offensive players leading the next generation of basketball along with Wemby???

Nick Wright’s a hot take merchant. Lmao.

We are gonna hold a 2nd round series win like it holds any weight? SGA outplayed him. Luka barely outplayed Jalen Williams.

Jason Terry outplayed Lebron in the 2011 Finals you know. That doesn’t get brought up! Why? Because it’s worthless

Nick Wright talks about the NBA like it is tennis or wrestling. Basketball is a team sport. He said similar things last year about Luka vs Ant even though Luka was on a completely different team. It’s pretty lazy analysis.

i don’t even like sga but anyone who watched that series saw that sga outplayed luka by A LOT. i hate that i find myself defending sga a lot because luka fans just say stupid stuff

Nick Wright making a bad faith argument? I’m shocked

Well you can’t just swap them and SGA has has a better season so none of this matters

Stop the Cap

Nick Wright says a bunch of stupid stuff. None of those guys should ever be compared to nash

How does this guy even have a voice in basketball

The same Nick Wright who said Wemby’s offense was “pedestrian” btw

This Luka propaganda is insane

Just wait til the Lakers play OKC thursday night.. gonna be a Luka > Shai or Luka < Shai shit show everywhere.

Then same shit again Tuesday night but will be more definitive i guess depending on what teams win.

Nick Wright is literally the goat because he looks like one. I don’t know why people listen to that guy and how he even landed that job.

Can’t wait for the Lakers Thunder games.

wow.

Nick Wright needs to shut his dumb ass up saying Steve Nash wasn’t the best during those years. Dumb af comment.

SGA outplayed Luka that series

I think Gobert is better than Luka. They played once in the playoffs, Gobert won.

This is dumb. SGA was better than Luka in that series. They won because OKC’s role players were utter dogshit and PJ Washington feasted on the Thunder’s lack of depth at the center position.

Who cares what some Bronsexual says?

Can we wait till Thursday to be toxic as fuck😩

It’s possible Luka is better than Shai. But putting Shai at Nash’s level is insane.

Yeah and how has Luka looked when he’s had to play the Celtics?

This isn’t a shocker…. it’s just adopted nepotism.

Nick Wrong…SGA makes his teammates better and proven it with a CHIP - Luka debatable

Nick Wright has gone in the record saying that he purposely takes hard positions on things like this purely because it makes his job easier. In the Jordan vs LeBron debate he said he got on the LeBron camp because he thought there was more upside to being right about him