Luka Doncic in the win against the Trailblazers tonight: 53/5/5 on 17-33 FG with 1 steal, +15
Luka put up a masterclass as the Lakers beat the Portland Trailblazers
Source: https://www.espn.com/nba/boxscore/_/gameId/401909294
couldn’t get 55, i lost all respect for luka
Only 53, what a bum
Wtf how is this shit even remotely possible, I feel like his 40 pieces are like 25 point games from him it’s absolutely bonkers
Exactly. When he drops 25, it’s considered an absolute stinker of a game.
And the haters comes out saying his prime was 2y ago.
The amount of people ive seen say he would never be as good as he was is insane.
It’s insane because there wasn’t any other indication than greatness, since he joined Real Madrid first team. None. This was the path. And here it is now, on the top of the world.
It’s possible because it’s been done before and it will be done again. It’s extremely impressive but you people react like you have never seen it before, and likely you are too young to have seen it. But older fans have seen it multiple times, we know it’s possible because we’ve seen it done by other players.
*slaps hand on table
Best I can do is 5th in MVP voting.
The best we can do is 9th place he did not do a 360 spin at the end of first half.
Isnt he number 1 on the MVP ladder and favourite to win MVP?
No. Its a joke from last season March nbefore he got injured where Luka was averaging 40 yet dropped to 4th in the MVP ladder instead of going up.
Aren’t people tired of making this joke by now though? It doesn’t even work this season.
No
It’s Reddit, people still make jokes from over a decade ago Iol
But have you considered mom says it’s Wemby’s turn to win MVP?
Bill Simmons about to make a new excuse
have you considered that he’s not 7 foot fucking 6
I’ve seen enough, give him the MVP already!
Draymond saying Luka will never win an MVP awakened a monster
no trade him first he’s too fat
Lakers don’t have Nico as a GM.
Gotta be between him and Wemby
Stats. Efficiency. Wins.
He has it all.
I really thought this was gonna be Wemby’s MVP and that Luka would be a contender, but ultimately fall short.
But this start has been amazing and I think the narrative is now falling into his favor.
I hate that we turn into a high school team with him off the court because he is getting overworked. This shit is how injuries happen.
It’s like a completly new roster, maybe they gel with time. Luka basically just 1v5s so he’s immune to that
That cardiac moment in the first 4min of the 4th quarter where he always rest, that’s when they always blew the lead lol
Ar has to do better when Luka is off the court.
How they lose the leads as soon as he sit’s is absurd.
Let’s see him do a LeBron carry job
Like said during the games, the third most points scored in NBA history through 9 games, the two leading scores being Wilt.
And let’s be for real, nobody’s breaking that shit 🤣
wilt dont count
MVP
I love him
They could never make me hate him
i get why they do, but i genuinely never could. luka is magic
Any true basketball fan would love him. We have the privilege of watching one of the best ever play this game in our lifetime.
And don’t understand haters in sports. I was the biggest Roger Federer fan but absolutely enjoy watching Nadal and Djokovic play tennis.
But are you in love with him?
Up until the last 4 minutes, I thought this was the best defense he’s played. No one was getting passed him. Mfer is locked tf in
It really is. People like to compare him to prime Harden but he’s so much better on defense when he’s locked in. He’s actually cutting off driving lanes, fronting bigs, and contesting shots. It’s crazy to see how active he is on defense.
Yeah but he kinda threw the ball at the refs foot and complained so the Fake tough guys in here lost all respect for him. Must be bittersweet for Luka.
I think you are talking about yaxel but I have no proof
Was a poor shooting night for him until he took over in the third
Best basketball player in the world right now and it’s not really even close
i cannot believe you guys got him for a bag of chips. still absurd to this day.
Vlade is your Nico
I still can’t believe it.
I can. Lakers generate so much for the NBA and Bron was on his way out
there was no shot Silver was going to let them be star-less
This conspiracy theory makes no sense lol.
Adam Silver is committing criminal fraud in the billions of dollars? Is that the accusation?
People forget that NBA team owners couldn’t give 2 shits about the other teams. They care about THEIR money, nobody else’s. You think the other 28 billionaire owners wouldn’t sue the ever living shit out of Adam Silver if they even got a whiff that Silver is rigging the NBA for a certain team?
And no, “the NBA making money means everyone makes money” argument doesn’t make sense. One superstar talent can add BILLIONS to the valuation of your team. The little hundred or so million dollars you get from revenue sharing is nothing compared to selling out your arena every night, jacking up ticket prices during playoffs, massive local TV deals, advertising and merchandise deals, etc.
You only need to look at GSW for evidence. GSW was worth 500 million in 2010. After the dynasties (which Curry was most responsible for), they’re now worth roughly 14 billion. The same time frame, the Wizards were also worth around 550 million in 2010. Now, the Wizards are worth like 6 billion. Should the Wizards owner be happy because he got a few hundred million through revenue sharing from Curry popularizing the game, while Joe Lacob literally made billions of dollars off his cash cow?
That shit is the dumbest conspiracy about basketball. Somehow, Adam Silver is a master criminal that can swindle 28 billionaires and their army of lawyers. What does Silver get for this? His yearly 10 million dollar salary?
Agree with everything just want to add that adam silver would have had to injure both AD and kyrie to make sure this shit could even happen
You kind of contradict yourself here. If you think the difference between 550 mil and 6 bil is crumbs, you on crack. If the NBA does well as a whole, the entire leagues evaluations grow.
Why does it make no sense ?
Why did so many countries cheated in Olympics or World Cup even ?
Why were there so many match fixing in boxing ? or even match up manipulating ?
Wrong. NBA owners care about the league, very much so. Rev share is only one part. But look valuations. Lakers iust sold for $12b. Even if you dont have Luka, your teams valuation went up. The point you made proves that.
I ain’t reading all that
Mavericks traded a franchise player for peanuts to the biggest market in the NBA
Then coincidentally mavericks got Cooper Flagg to make up for it
It’s not that hard to think it’s fishy
We gave up AD but in reality, NBA gifted themCooper Flag so it wasn’t as unfair on paper to Mavs as it seems.
bro there was no way to know they were getting the #1 pick lmao
I’m sure when the pelicans couldnt sell then sold for over price for some strange reason they did know either
I mean Wemby is close.
Wemby is close only because of his defensive gravity which obviously does mean somethingBut he still worlds behind offensively
Imagine Luka having a game like Wemby did, the one he had one FG made.
I don’t get why Luka has such a high standard while every other superstars get a pass for having bad games.
Not really no
Wemby is close but he’s also the Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Tube Man so considering that Luka isn’t hi-fiving the Empire State Building, he’s pretty good.
Hopefully people appreciate what we’re seeing here.
How’s Anthony Davis going
Stop it
It’s time to have some conversations
you can’t bend knee in November, wemby is still gonna win in May
Wemby win in may and Luka in june works?
Yeah that’s a compromise I’m willing to make
Well said
Luka winning in Junedon’t make me laugh
Haha nah I’m just saying the time to claim it’s too early for reactions is over, the Wemby Luka race is here
whos the last MVP that has been so inconsistent on offense?
If he wins he would be the first guy in 20 years to win MVP while having games with single digit fg%. I cant really recall any other MVP winners that put up stinkers every 5 games.
Bill Simmons needs to cry more!
Somehow this feels like a combination of both Kobe 05-06 and Harden 18-19
Same thing every game and nobody can do anything about it. GOAT stuff on offense.
This is some 2006 Kobe shit
“but he drinks sweet tea!”
-nico
Just waiting for OKC fans to downplay it…
But he complain to ref 😡
Ballhog and shot 5⁄15 from 3 🤓
The fking don! Not a fan but this is just some all-time greatness. Lets appreciate it
He’s played only 9 games and already has two 50 point games.
Best in the world.
Middle of Q2 and I’m thinking surely this is going to be Luka’s off game with “only” 12 points till then. Dude’s scary inevitable right now.
That third quarter was magical
He out scored portland on his own in the third it was ridiculous
Never seen something like this
You are probably too young to have seen it, but it’s been done before, multiple times and with even higher levels of scoring. But that doesn’t make this any less impressive…..people just gotta stop acting like it’s a first.
Some call home The Don, some Wonderboy, PapaDon, r/Lukamagic
I prefer to call him MVP
how many players make scoring look this effortless?
motherfucking luka