Luka Doncic should win MVP

Luka Doncic should be the NBA MVP this season. There are a multitude of reasons why it should be him.

Let’s start off with the fact he’s the scoring leader, who averaged 34 PPG this year. On top of that he finished second in assists at nearly 10 per game. He’s the best rebounding guard in the NBA with over 9 per game, 15th overall in the league. 34, 9, 10 per game is absolutely mind boggling and I think tends to get downplayed for some reason because it’s Luka.

Luka’s Points Responsible for per game, was the second most ever in a single season, right behind Wilt, when he averaged 50 PPG.

Luka’s step back 3 may be the most unstoppable move by a player in the NBA when he’s on. He made 284 3’s this season.

Luka just had his best defensive season ever, averaging 1.5 steals per game. A better way to tell how good his defense was overall this season though, would be to look at advanced metrics. Luka was Top 10 in the league in lowest FG% allowed inside of the paint this season. If you take this metric out to the perimeter, Luka was just outside the Top 10 in lowest FG% allowed outside of the paint as well.

The Mavericks dealt with a crazy amount of injuries during the regular season. They didn’t have a good amount of role players in place until the trade deadline when they acquired Gafford and Washington. Once their team got healthy, and Washington and Gafford were acclimated in Dallas, the Mavericks finished the regular season at 16-4. 2 of these 4 losses were the last games of the season where they benched everyone.

It’s ridiculous to say the Mavericks record was not good enough for him to win MVP. Take away Luka from this Mavericks team and they are a 30 win team. They still won 50 games in a contested Western Conference while dealing with injuries, and not having 2 of their better players most of the season, Gafford and Washington.

Steve Nash won 2 MVP’s over Kobe, Derrick Rose won an MVP over Lebron, while the other players mentioned had much better statistical seasons. Russell Westbrook’s MVP, came during a season where the Thunder won 47 games, so to start pulling out arguments saying Luka doesn’t deserve it because of his team is outlandish.

Luka is the real MVP of the NBA.