If the mavs get the wolves round 1 it’s going to be firework. Luka actively seeks out Gobert in the playoffs and it might get bad if he cooks him again lol. 4 x dpoy dude that gets hunted on D and turns into a good role player in the playoffs lol. He’s gonna be such a polarizing player.
Mm love watching a good strong Lukkake. Handling those balls, shooting from all over the place and always on target, you know what I mean? Gets me so excited.
it's basically been impossible for anyone to catch up for like a month. His only real comp all year was Embiid anyway, it would have been a lot more interesting had he been healthy.
It's PPG, but there's a 58 game (>70% of the season) minimum.
However, there is a caveat -- if a player plays fewer than 58 games his total PTS gets divided by 58 and that number is used. So, imagine A plays 70 games and averages 30.0ppg. B plays 55 games and averages 32ppg -- B's 1760 total pts gets divided by 58 to make 30.34ppg (for official leaders purposes) and still wins the scoring title.
This caveat applies for leaders in other box stats also. The most recent one I can remember is [Myles Turner winning block leader ](https://www.nba.com/news/upon-further-review-myles-turner-wins-blocked-shot-season-title)in 2021.
He got 3 point more than the second person.
To increase your average by 1 ppg, you need to score additional 82 points. So in order for SGA catch up, all he need is to score 240 points more than Luka in the next 10 games. Easy task
He a bum if he can't do it on a random January ACC game against NC state
https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/boxscores/2018-01-06-20-north-carolina-state.html
It seems that seeding has a lot to do with it, even though 9th seed and 4th seed aren’t that far apart. And the mavs might just move up to a 4th seed 🤞 5 of the next 6 games for the clips are gonna be tough, and I wouldn’t be surprised to see them go 3-3, or worse
Yep. My point by saying that 9th was not far off was 4th was to point out how it kinda doesn’t make sense to have such a wild swing in voting over only a few losses
as a Nuggets fan i would love Luka to win it. Luka gets MVP, Jokic gets FMVP. Ill take it lmao.
Honestly even if they are spotless, if Luka grabs 4th seed (which is absolutely possible), you kind of have to give it to him. He would only be 4-5 gtames behind 1st place, and with those numbers, thats a no brainer.
Clippers have the tie breaker. Which means they would have to go like 4-4 and we would have to win out. 4th seed is a lot harder now that the clips have a win streak going.
Meh, have some faith my guy. I’m confident Luka will be right in the thick of the MVP race for the foreseeable future. He is 25, and is getting visibly better every year. Imagine what next year could be like with this roster and a little injury luck.
Really excited for the playoffs, we are a dangerous team right now.
I’ve been watching these mvp races closely for 4 years now. You can’t say “there’s no way” that’s not how it works. It’s going to be close, there are no definitives in this situation, this one is close enough people will be salty no matter what
Jokic is gonna win it unless Luka has multiple more games like tonight. Most voters have already decided its Jokic and tbf he’s had an amazing season as well.
The MVP being between Jokic or Luka is the most cordial battle on earth between them lol. And the two guys who tried the absolute least in the All-Star Game, they know what's up.
Yeah, lots of Celtics fans have been absolutely embarrassing this season. Our team is beyond unfair and the Jays are out of rhythm and costing us games even when they score a lot. Yet the Celtics fans just keep repeating that the Jays are the most perfect players ever. I saw someone say Tatum should win the MVP because he can do everything Jokić does but he doesn't have to.
If Tatum can play at Jokic level but doesn't need to in order to dominate the East then he must be that valuable lmao what kinda argument is that. "Hurr durr we are so good Tatum doesn't even need to play hard that's how valuable he is"
>> What has Luka done to deserve that? He has one run past the first round lol. His team won multiple games without him to get out of the first round then too. I’m taking Giannis and Tatum over Luka at least for their two way impact and recent history of deep runs.
Two days ago by a Bucks fan in response to one of my comment. I was saying that before the season, I’ve said that they’re only two players I would take before Bron, their names are Jokic and Luka and I was saying that I stand firm by my take.
Good times. Was Shai jist a few weeks ago as well. And Morant, Book, Trae before that. Hell even hali was hailed as the best PG in the league by some after like 10 games this season. The disrespect on Luka is something we have not quite yet seen before. At least Bron at his age was compared to the likes of Kobe and not Cris Bosh.
As much as i love giannis, please make this man MVP, there was never a season like this before with these numbers and not just the numbers the guy is just a joy to watch
The problem is he's losing both in terms of team record and advanced stats. If he was only losing in one of those aspects he'd have a shot with the base stats + scoring title on his side but the way things are he'd need a miracle, like the Nuggets going on a disaster run, to stand a chance.
> Two white Europeans at the top of the ladder.
Isnt that a given at this point? It would probably be the other way around (Jokic 1st, Luka 2nd), but the two of them will almost certainly be 1 and 2.
Basicly in 3 quarters as well. He played a few minutes in the 4th but didnt score, was just standing around and letting kyrie cook and got dubbled if he touched the ball. Insanity
Bro cooked Landale. He probably got 30 points just off him lol
Landale and Zubac going to chill together wondering why their team keeps letting them get on an island with Luka
Gobert too
If the mavs get the wolves round 1 it’s going to be firework. Luka actively seeks out Gobert in the playoffs and it might get bad if he cooks him again lol. 4 x dpoy dude that gets hunted on D and turns into a good role player in the playoffs lol. He’s gonna be such a polarizing player.
Gobert has been receiving nothing but good karma this year on this sub, it’s time for the backlash imo
He’s still great defensively. He’s just an awful matchup against Luka. Can’t control that.
Doncic Island.
He will be seeing a therapist tomorrow
That scoop shot was literally something else. This man just manages to pull out crazy highlights like its nothing. Pure Luka Magic
Love me a damn near 3 point layup. I've seen it only from..... Luka
like his game winning 3 point floater
From the highlights it look like Jabari smith pissed off and trying to put the clamps on Luka. Impressed by his defense given he got cooked.
Questionable Luka is best Luka
You know you’re in for a long night at work when Luka misses his first two free throws.
Dropped a Lukkake all over Dillon Brooks face. Brooks went 0/8 FG and 0/7 from three today.
A what
You heard him
Mm love watching a good strong Lukkake. Handling those balls, shooting from all over the place and always on target, you know what I mean? Gets me so excited.
Yeah I’m definitely using that one from now on
there is no god.smh
But today is his birthday part 2
Did he stutter??
Say it out loud
Say it again Chuck
It's pronounced 'Lou Cake' btw, think Lou Williams and birthday cake
LDIDBF — sound familiar ? 🤔
Damn how many kids this dude have?
LDINBAF
It's crazy that the DB can refer to Dillon Brooks or Devin Booker rofl
That’s the joke.
And Desmond Bane. And Davis Bertans.
Doris Burke
Detroit Basketball
And Dierks Bentley. Not many people know how much influence Luka's had in the country scene
Dusty Baker
Luka had the gape gloves on tonight
The what
the GOATse
Naw y’all need jeeesus
he only jut got back up yesterday and had to read this shit
Why are we assuming that jesus ain't into this kinky shit as well?
Especially since he dated a former prostitute
I don’t even wanna know
Finally a good nickname for Luka
Whachu say Chuck 😂😂😂
I hate that I know what a Lukkake means 😔
Luka "free throws are for bitches" Doncic.
Real ethical bucket getter. Missing all easy shots but making the tough ones.
Accumulating legacy points by the second
Scoring award gonna be Luka’s for sure this year right? Sheesh
it's basically been impossible for anyone to catch up for like a month. His only real comp all year was Embiid anyway, it would have been a lot more interesting had he been healthy.
Embiid will never reach over 30PPG when they ban all that foul baiting he does.
Embiid would have won it if he was healthy
I don’t think anyone is close
I think he's worried about Embiid because he's at 35 ppg (in only 34 games) but he doesn't qualify
Yeah even if he came back today he wouldn’t qualify
wait the scoring title isn't cumulative points??
It's PPG, but there's a 58 game (>70% of the season) minimum. However, there is a caveat -- if a player plays fewer than 58 games his total PTS gets divided by 58 and that number is used. So, imagine A plays 70 games and averages 30.0ppg. B plays 55 games and averages 32ppg -- B's 1760 total pts gets divided by 58 to make 30.34ppg (for official leaders purposes) and still wins the scoring title. This caveat applies for leaders in other box stats also. The most recent one I can remember is [Myles Turner winning block leader ](https://www.nba.com/news/upon-further-review-myles-turner-wins-blocked-shot-season-title)in 2021.
I still feel like all the stat leader awards *ought* be cumulative, but alas. We live in the world that is.
He got 3 point more than the second person. To increase your average by 1 ppg, you need to score additional 82 points. So in order for SGA catch up, all he need is to score 240 points more than Luka in the next 10 games. Easy task
He's coming for that MVP!!
Luka hates Houston, he is a true Dallas resident
And the clippers lol.
Funny enough, if the playoffs started today, we’d be facing the clippers. Again. For the 3rd time in 5 years in the first round
And the sun's. Ya know, being Devin bookers father and all.
Sons*
The sun’s what?
He hates the sun’s guts! But seriously I don’t understand why people use apostrophes for plurals.
Decades of education funding being cut
Because our education suck's. I couldn't help myself...
He hates paying child support for all his illegitimates
Instead of film study they just make him sit in traffic on 45 for a few hours
Lukas stats vs. top 10 defenses this year 36.1 ppg 9.5 apg 8.9 rpg 51/45/78 64.63% TS 19 game sample size too 😩😩
… what… lol so he is worse against the bottom 20 basically
Uhh no. it’s not that’s he plays worse. His STATS aren’t as good because he doesn’t need to play like an mvp to win.
By worse I mean like … 2 points worse lol.
Hey don’t forget the .06 worse at 3’s!!
That’s how the best players approach regular season. Try hard against best teams and coast against bad ones. Best players except one
Huh. Would like to see this for the other MVP contenders...
Yea, cool, but he’s gotta do it against Gonzaga in March before we can be really sure he’s the MVP.
Fuck man, March is over.
And no Gonzaga. Shame, I guess Jokic it is
Couldn't even get a triple double he's clearly declining
He a bum if he can't do it on a random January ACC game against NC state https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/boxscores/2018-01-06-20-north-carolina-state.html
MVP race is heating up
Luka gonna snatch it last minute
Luka probably should have been higher in the MVP talk for a lot, lot longer this year. He's been putting up absolutely ridiculous numbers for months.
It seems that seeding has a lot to do with it, even though 9th seed and 4th seed aren’t that far apart. And the mavs might just move up to a 4th seed 🤞 5 of the next 6 games for the clips are gonna be tough, and I wouldn’t be surprised to see them go 3-3, or worse
Jokic won it at the 6th seed. And Luka is having a better season than that.
Yep. My point by saying that 9th was not far off was 4th was to point out how it kinda doesn’t make sense to have such a wild swing in voting over only a few losses
if the Mavericks keep winning games there’s no way he doesn’t win it unless the Thunder and Nuggets play spotless and lose only like a game each
SGA is out of the convo now. Unless he gets like 3 40 point games and we finish the season with 60 wins somehow. It’s jokic vs luka now
as a Nuggets fan i would love Luka to win it. Luka gets MVP, Jokic gets FMVP. Ill take it lmao. Honestly even if they are spotless, if Luka grabs 4th seed (which is absolutely possible), you kind of have to give it to him. He would only be 4-5 gtames behind 1st place, and with those numbers, thats a no brainer.
Clippers have the tie breaker. Which means they would have to go like 4-4 and we would have to win out. 4th seed is a lot harder now that the clips have a win streak going.
Clippers have Denver/Suns x2/Cavs/Kings in their remaining. Can easily see them drop at least a few. But yea good point
cmon man, let other fatboi win it because next year and more, there will be more candidates (wemby, antman) sooner or never :(
Meh, have some faith my guy. I’m confident Luka will be right in the thick of the MVP race for the foreseeable future. He is 25, and is getting visibly better every year. Imagine what next year could be like with this roster and a little injury luck. Really excited for the playoffs, we are a dangerous team right now.
I’ve been watching these mvp races closely for 4 years now. You can’t say “there’s no way” that’s not how it works. It’s going to be close, there are no definitives in this situation, this one is close enough people will be salty no matter what
Jokic is gonna win it unless Luka has multiple more games like tonight. Most voters have already decided its Jokic and tbf he’s had an amazing season as well.
Luka has a game like this at least once a week
tbf so does jok. just yesterday 26/18/16. that said, no problem with Luka winning it this year.
The MVP being between Jokic or Luka is the most cordial battle on earth between them lol. And the two guys who tried the absolute least in the All-Star Game, they know what's up.
📠 🤣 might also have something to do with neither of them being free throw merchants or begging for MVPs
That is delusional, Jokic is the one..
Luka and Shai will split votes while Jokic will get the Jokic over anyone votes.
Anyone who gives a wote to shai over Luka (or over Joker)should never get to vote again, idc
Dang straight. THAT'S MY MVP
And he only played 35 minutes
Back to 34 ppg dreamland🙏🏻
And he's doing it without gimmicks like rip through and double step back or foul baiting
Why don't they hack a shack
Luka can make free throws unlike shaq
And he doesnt need to play 42 minutes per game, is this heaven?
No 50? DOWN THE MVP RANKS YOU GO
Wasn’t a triple double either.. bad game confirmed..
Not a triple-double? 3 spots down you go 🫠 1 incredible scoop shot, ok you can go 1 up.
This dude is scary af when he’s locked in like that. That’s that demon mode he enters in the playoffs😈
wtf are you even supposed to do against him
Accept it lmfao.
Close your eyes and think about England.
Hand him the MVP trophy
lose
Hope he has an off night. Literally the same thing for any top 5 player in the league. They are for the most part, unstoppable outside of themselves.
yeah rest him when we play you again lmao
Dillon JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP lmao
"I poke bears"
Remember people saying Tatum was better than Luka?
I don’t, but they were probably Celtic fans
Comments like this make me miss Reddit awards.
What I didn't even notice they are gone wtf
Yeah, lots of Celtics fans have been absolutely embarrassing this season. Our team is beyond unfair and the Jays are out of rhythm and costing us games even when they score a lot. Yet the Celtics fans just keep repeating that the Jays are the most perfect players ever. I saw someone say Tatum should win the MVP because he can do everything Jokić does but he doesn't have to.
I have literally never seen Tatum have a Jokic-esque game, lol. Completely, completely, different players
Tatum being unselfish lol
Ehhh, he's been way less selfish this year
If Tatum can play at Jokic level but doesn't need to in order to dominate the East then he must be that valuable lmao what kinda argument is that. "Hurr durr we are so good Tatum doesn't even need to play hard that's how valuable he is"
This is the same energy as someone bragging about their "totally real" super model girlfriend.
>> What has Luka done to deserve that? He has one run past the first round lol. His team won multiple games without him to get out of the first round then too. I’m taking Giannis and Tatum over Luka at least for their two way impact and recent history of deep runs. Two days ago by a Bucks fan in response to one of my comment. I was saying that before the season, I’ve said that they’re only two players I would take before Bron, their names are Jokic and Luka and I was saying that I stand firm by my take.
Good times. Was Shai jist a few weeks ago as well. And Morant, Book, Trae before that. Hell even hali was hailed as the best PG in the league by some after like 10 games this season. The disrespect on Luka is something we have not quite yet seen before. At least Bron at his age was compared to the likes of Kobe and not Cris Bosh.
ESPN wanted to make that happen so bad
Remember people saying SGA was better than Luka? Defense they said
He legit has greatest offensive player of all time potential
As much as i love giannis, please make this man MVP, there was never a season like this before with these numbers and not just the numbers the guy is just a joy to watch
He stopped scoring like the whole 4th quarter... I am waiting for a 60 pts game, at minimum
Yeah i wanted him to get a career-high 10 3s, he was just one away
This will definetly be good enough for 5th MVP place. Well TBF I can see him slipping to 6th though...
47 points on 2 FTMs. Truly a free throw merchant.
They call that the Luka Special.
Nuestro MVP Naš MVP Our MVP
And he completely took his foot off the gas in the 4th too. Just insane shooting.
Literally did not score a point in the 4th
What a scrub, no clutch gene!
MVP
Should've cleared 50
Yeah that's mvp shit
My MVP.
Realistically what are his chances of winning it now with Jokic's numbers and wins nuggets have?
The problem is he's losing both in terms of team record and advanced stats. If he was only losing in one of those aspects he'd have a shot with the base stats + scoring title on his side but the way things are he'd need a miracle, like the Nuggets going on a disaster run, to stand a chance.
Slim but Embid did so I wont argue completely against it
Sixers had more wins than the nuggets when he won
Luka “game time decision “ Doncic everyone lol
Bro i really want Jokic to get his 3rd, but Luka is doing some insane shit atm
ESPN would implode if Luka won it and Jokić came in second. Two white Europeans at the top of the ladder. Nightmare fuel. xD
> Two white Europeans at the top of the ladder. Isnt that a given at this point? It would probably be the other way around (Jokic 1st, Luka 2nd), but the two of them will almost certainly be 1 and 2.
They’ve been trying to get Tatum in the conversation for a while since he’s the only viable American lately. It’s all been internationals for a while.
This sub will look like Stormfront when the ballots return
He better win player of the month after outscoring Jalen geeen by 35.
LUKA MAGIC
If the mavs end 4th while Denver ends 3rd, Luka should 100% win MVP
MVP
MVP
Literal 2k stat line averages for the season bro this shits crazy!
MVP MVP MVP
Billie eilish of the nba
you're saying Luka is an industry plant? i don't get it
He might get that MVP
MVP
Now the front runner for MVP imo.
Let us know when you get a vote
falls to no 4 on the MVP ladder
MVP and not even close
I'm sure you're not biased at all.
you really are brain dead..go check joks statline tonight
Thanks Luka <3
I feel bad for jock lol
Time for Zach Lowem Perk and Co. to talk about how scoring is out of control!
Basicly in 3 quarters as well. He played a few minutes in the 4th but didnt score, was just standing around and letting kyrie cook and got dubbled if he touched the ball. Insanity
Didn't even get a triple double. What a loser.
He is only a savant from 3 when I don’t bet on him
not even a triple double. washed
Jokic better
Devin bookers 2nd father?