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(04-30-2020, 09:36 AM)ClutchDirk Wrote: [ -> ]

1. Luka DoncicLow-key feels like a funny description for anything related to Doncic, because the story of his early career is best told in bolded, all-caps text. He had a rookie season for the ages, and he has followed it up with another round of historic production. He went from a great freshman to a great player overnight, and he helped turn the Dallas Mavericks into a playoff team with an all-time great offense.This is only the 12th time in league history that a player has boasted a 36-plus usage percentage across at least 30 minutes per outing. Doncic has met that massive challenge with the NBA's fourth-highest PER and sixth-best BPM this season."He's already showing he's one of the best and he's only [21] years old and he's putting up the numbers like, it seems crazy to say it, but the next Michael Jordan," fellow Slovenian Goran Dragic told NBA.com's Sekou Smith.

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2888...-nba-award

It's absolutely disturbing to think any human alive has Harden ranked higher in the MVP ranking than Luka. "Westbrick" has literally carried most of the wins Houston was pulling together the majority of the season. Also statistically its not even close either.

Its obviously a real race between The Freak and Luka. Think Giannis is edging him out personally but it was still a good race. Bron has been having a great season but just cause your older doesn't mean you get an automatic MVP favor, again I think AD is the better player between the 2. Cudos to Bron for leading the league in assists though, Impressive!

(05-21-2020, 04:16 PM)Hypermav Wrote: [ -> ]https://www.essentiallysports.com/nba-ne...ron-james/

He's already better than Lebron! He's looking in the rear view mirror at LeBron (way back there) and has his eyes set on MJ!

https://aroyalpain.com/2020/05/25/sacram...-doncic/4/

(05-25-2020, 07:17 PM)Hypermav Wrote: [ -> ]https://aroyalpain.com/2020/05/25/sacram...-doncic/4/

I remember the entirety of Luka's rookie year King fans on Reddit were creating excuse after excuse justifying Bagley over Luka was the right move. After Luka hit another historic level in year 2, and Bagley has been relegated to spot minutes and plagued with some bad injuries they're running out of those.

I hope Bagley gets healthy and actually becomes something because if not the Kings are going to be ridiculed till the end of time for taking Bagley over Luka if they both continue their trajectory.

https://theathletic.com/1834125/2020/05/...s-in-2025/

Spoiler:  Luka

(05-26-2020, 08:42 AM)Hypermav Wrote: [ -> ]https://theathletic.com/1834125/2020/05/...s-in-2025/

Spoiler:  Luka

More spoiler:  Dallas, Memphis and Boston each have two starters among the first 15 players drafted onto the three teams.

I'm just ready to see some Luka/KP pick and rolls. I miss it dearly.

https://www.si.com/nba/knicks/news/what-...s-got-luka

More teams dreaming of Luka.

(05-28-2020, 04:04 PM)Hypermav Wrote: [ -> ]https://www.si.com/nba/knicks/news/what-...s-got-luka

More teams dreaming of Luka.

What if Cuban hadn't gotten in Donnie's way and we drafted Giannis, either that or Donnie had any kind of balls to stand up to Cuban and demand he gets out of his way.

(05-28-2020, 04:09 PM)ItsGoTime Wrote: [ -> ]

(05-28-2020, 04:04 PM)Hypermav Wrote: [ -> ]https://www.si.com/nba/knicks/news/what-...s-got-luka

More teams dreaming of Luka.

What if Cuban hadn't gotten in Donnie's way and we drafted Giannis, either that or Donnie had any kind of balls to stand up to Cuban and demand he gets out of his way.

Well, if the Mavs did in fact draft Giannis in 2013 we would not of had to sign Chandler Parsons the following summer.  We probably would not of signed Harrison Barnes either.  And would not have been in position to draft Luka in 2018.  On the other hand, Dirk would of ended his playing career in the playoffs pending on who we would of signed instead of Parsons and Barnes.  With that said, could the Mavs been in play for a championship in 2016/17 or 20117/18?  I would of liked to have seen Dirk go out that way...

But the future looks bright with Luka and Kristaps.

When the playoffs start, it will become about which teams have teams get hurt because they are not in playing shape, certainly not playoff playing shape. Team rhythm is not a certainty for anyone either. Our young team probably does better than most in both of these areas. 

We are not the only team to get some guys healthier but I predict at least 3 playoff upsets due to guys getting hurt. God forbid that someone gets the virus. I don't even want to think about that but....we just can't rule it out no matter how safe the NBA tries to be.

(05-29-2020, 04:34 PM)Hypermav Wrote: [ -> ]https://twitter.com/SiriusXMNBA/status/1...25410?s=20

I forgot about Brunson's surgery.  That takes two of our top nine out of action.  Assuming Curry starts, you have KP, DFS, THJ, Curry and Luka.  The bench is pretty thin with Wright and Kleber being the main cogs.  Yes, we have some next tier guys who will have to play because stamina is going to be an issue (Barea, WCS, Jackson, Boban and Lee).  But, the dropoff from Powell/Brunson to those guys is fairly substantial.

So, we get a healthy Luka/KP combo, but our bench goes from a strength to a weakness.  Suddenly how well Courtney Lee stayed in shape during the last 3 months is hugely important.