[Highlight] Luka knocks down the pullup jump shot for 51 points on the night and a 6 pt Laker lead with under 30s remaining
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He makes it look so easy sometimes
All the time tbh
Why would you ever pass? This dude is basically Teen Wolf out there
lol this guy is a freak
I still think that Austin reaves is better
F tier bait
not saying its the person you responded to, but there are people on this sub who genuinely believe that
yes, approximately 23% of US adults have a mental illness in any given year
No way you actually believe that lol
Imagine the Lakers if they didn’t have him Nicco literally saved that Franchise lmaoo
Shoutout pelinka for taking Nico out on that coffee date
The relationships he’s built in the decades before is the reason he has his job and his successes. A good GM isn’t about being good at stats like some Reddit nerds imagine.
Reddit nerds don’t interact with humans. They can’t comprehend there’s more to the business than numbers and stats.
Shoutout Inception technology and private aircraft.
And playing footsie
context?
The myth is that during a coffee date, Nico breached the topic about trading for AD and Pelinka jokingly said give me Luka then and Nico was like why not.
Then he also somehow convinced Nico that they should keep it secret and down low for how much risk the lakers are taking with this trade.
Yeah whatever was in that coffee must have been good.
They were spotted having a coffee date near dallas prior to the trade. https://imgur.com/a/YlviBI8
We’d be tanking right now post AD/Bron
I was ready for dark years
Then Nico came calling …
Linka was even able to haggle the price down. Nico forever a bum.
he is earning every single point against jrue holiday.
64% TS? Meh shooting game
I went to look up if this was the lowest in his recent games.
This season:
63.7% (Tonight)
69.6%
73.9%
78.3%
60.6%
74%
74.6%
47.8%
63.8%
He’s clearly peaked. Maybe we can trade him for AD?
Nah. Don’t be ridiculous. You can’t get talent like that for a fat euro player. Better aim for someone like Brian scalabrine
Dude has has MULTIPLE heaves and last second shots lol
Last second half Court heaves doesn’t count as a miss anymore
He does this even before that rule.
Didn’t watch the whole game, but there was at least one possession in the 2nd half where he got a hot potato pass with a couple of seconds left on the shot clock and was forced to chuck up a prayer which missed.
Grimes tossed him TNT.
can someone post that avdija over the back foul that the refs just decided not to call on review
Israel made the call
the call was promised 1000 years ago
I though aid to Israel was cancled.
Tel Aviv impressed
Hope mr buck buck posts a lot of clips from tn
Luka embellished tf outta that
Automatic
Wtf is going on… this is more insane than 2019 Harden
As a rockets/harden fan, a run like this is incredible to watch. I hope the lakers/luka fans enjoy it and don’t let the media/other fans eventually ruin their enjoyment of it.
My advice: just sit back and enjoy the show while ignoring the trolls.
Luka is unbelievable but it’s been 10 games. Harden had a 90 game stretch averaging 38.6 PPG from 12/13/2018 to 1/8/2020
Don’t forget, luka was doing this last season too , 41, 42, 43, 60 in his last 7 games
Averaged 37.5 in march
Bros got unfinished business
He’s averaging FORTY evil beat drop
basically, 6 months of games
Or 87 Jordan who averaged 37ppg with 200 steal + 100 blocks…..across the entire 82 game season
Fair enough. I should repĥrase by saying this is 2019 Harden-lite
Harden (29 games 18-19): 42/8/7 on 44/38/89 splits
Embiid (17 games 23-24): 40/12/5 on 57/42/89 splits
Harden (33 games 19-20): 39/6/8 on 47/39/86 splits
Luka (13 games 25-26): 40/8/7 on 49/40/82 splits
Luka (7 games 26-27): 44/8/8 on 52/43/87 splits
You pick.
Splits don’t do justice to Luka and Harden. They are volume 3pt shooters
It marks Luka look even better then. Volume three point shooter shooting 43% is insane.
Harden at 38 and 39 is insane too considering he was shooting like 20 a game lol
He one where half his points didn’t come fromFree throws… forgot that “minor” detail huh?
Nah hardens 2019 season was more insane. There was a stretch of games where he averaged like 50 ppg and it was quite a few games he maintained that
Dude just talk without juice.
We might be watching history. Luka looks unstoppable right now
I mean yeah, Harden shot like 44% from the field and 36% from 3. Luka has been way better than that version of Harden.
mfs just go on here saying anything 😭
thats the dumbest shit I heard, 2019 Harden did it for 2 months straight
What’s with OKC fans hating on Luka in every thread?
Why do you think?
Insecurity. The only thing Shai ever had on Luka was a much better team which doesnt play into Shai being the better player.
He’s not wrong tho. Harden did that over a much larger sample size.
This is not even hating. Harden did this for a far large sample size. I guess calling out dumb statements is hating now lol.
They want revenge for the league hating on sga.
Insecurity and a refusal to accept that Luka has went up another level again.
Luka been going off since like March last season
Flair checks out
u r either dumb or u just didn’t watch 2019 Harden
Love em or hate em, that’s the clubhouse leader for MVP
He’s gotta be the MVP, the Lakers are a 5 win team without him
We are literally the Utah Jazz without him
We even have Jazz legend Walker Kessler
and mr sexton
Most teams suck without their #1 option, but him doing this on only $50 mil a year is insanity.
Unfortunately you are not exaggerating
He kind of is, you already won your Clippers game, you are gonna play some shitty teams and get some free wins
He’s playing at an unreal level and carrying harder than Atlas; as a Celtics fans I’m starting to get scared Tatum’s never gonna have an MVP year.
Tatum is an incredible player, he’s just always been that one tier below the absolute best of the best. Still a beast and I’m glad to see he’s bounced back so well from such a brutal injury.
I mean tatum is great but he is never a top 5 player in his whole career
Starting to? Lol
ESPN had them as a 46 win team
Not even 5 sexton/Ar/grimes is too chaotic as a pairing
I wish it worked like that and not the popularity contest that it is. It will most likely go to the biggest star on the team with one of the best records.
Luka is a fucking walking 2k MyCareer player. He’s so fucking good
This is simply not fair…
Not on Jrue… not like that…
Guys I think this is the best offensive player of all time
2019 Harden
2019 harden was similar but also a lot of his points were FTs from bending the rules and foul baiting. While Luka does shoot a lot of FTs, many of them are and ones where he actually makes the shots. From a purely basketball pov I think Luka is better.
I watched most of those Harden games with my father as we struggled to comprehend it and this is on another level. If he does this for like 55 more games it’s the craziest offensive season ever
“if he does this for 55 more games”
Only 55 more games no big deal
nope.
Until Luka sustains this over the whole season, yes it absolutely is 2019 Harden. lol
Thru 9 games, Luka is averaging 40/8/8 on 68 TS%. Harden averaged 44/9/8 on 62 TS% for over a month in 2019. There’s definitely a debate. Excited to see if Luka can keep up this same level of play for months on end like Harden did.
Generational run. Loving every moment of it.
Skinny Luka > Ubereem, Cocaine Jones, TRTor, Motivated McGregor
And some of you want to talk about complaining instead of the fact that you’re witnessing greatness
Dude’s playing out of this world
This years mvp race is just nuts
I’m sorry man but it just has to be Luka..Wemby is an absolute alien and he will be seen as the best player in the league for many, many years, but what Luka is doing is nothing short of historic. His team is so much worse than the Spurs on paper, if the Lakers end near them in wins I feel like it HAS to be Luka’s award
10 games into the season relax
Yeah fair enough I meant if both are healthy and it’s between him and Wemby near the end
But narratives are set as early as this.
No
Sure, if Luka averages 40 a game, he is the MVP. I do not think that will happen over the full season, but we’ll see
1⁄8 of the season and both guys have been somewhat injury prone before. Let’s just give it some time lol
10 games deep and this sub brings up an MVP race in every thread
right i thought it was satire. can’t stand most nba “fans” tbh
he’s giving it to everyone but haters are gonna say some bullshit goalposting excuse
There gonna complain about his personality, “He whines too much” lol.
As many 50+ pt games as <37 pt games lol
But according to Nico this doesn’t matter because he likes to celebrate games like these with a brewski
Agreed!
mad
That floor is an eyesore to say the least.
He’s good at basketball
Thank you Nico 🙏🙏🙏
Yeah Luka might kill someone if he doesn’t win MVP this year
Luka needs to be on this hot streak for longer than 7 games tho