Inside the NBA Debates MVP & All-NBA Awards 

Not having Luka 1st team is a crime

Man I root for brothers as well but we gotta stop this blatant hate for white / Euro players. Anthony Edwards over Luka is straight up crazy kenny my man.

How can Luka be a top 3 MVP candidate and not be all NBA first team? And these guys get paid to talk about basketball. Seriously.

Luka has 50 30 point games as of this comment. He's got an all new team, they've missed tons of games, he's leading the league in scoring and #2 in assists, damn near a 34 pt triple double a game, and he's only 5 games behind the 1 seed... What more does he need to do? The disrespect is crazy, not even putting him on 1st team??

Anyone that says SGA over Luka for MVP needs to stop watching basketball

Kenny has finally lost it... Luka 2nd team all nba hahahahahaha

Why do people keep bringing up shai having 50 30 point games when luka has also had 50 with less games played while being better in basically every facet of the game, it’s luka or Jokic, simple as that, luka is mvp for me though 34/9/10 won’t be replicated for a long time, funnily enough, the only person I can see doing it, is luka, next season🤝😭

Luka second team?!?

Shaq salty cuz Joker will be 3rd tine mvp and hes a center lol so obvious

Jokic is more valuable to the nuggets than shai is to the thunder

Luka doncic is the MVP and Wemby is the DPOY

Luka on his historic year, 2nd Team?

All of them want a black and north american player as the mvp and it's so obvious. Europeans really been dominating the league in the last few years. The things they say to discredit luka is crazy and they should be held accountable for pushing their agenda. Saying luka isn't all nba 1 team is insane. This year luka is the mvp the only player i wouldn't be too mad about winning is jokic, sga ain't even close the players luka and joker are.

Shaq: no Viewers: he doesnt watch games of mavs

Anthony edwards is not an "all nba first team " right now. Look at the game last night? Nearly zero shot attempt in the 4th quarter😂

SGA's value for Thunder is much Higher than Jokic's value for Nuggets? I'm never taking Kenny seriously ever again, he's a 🤡

Tf is kenny smoking. Luka 2nd team

Shaq saying SGA please. He don’t want JOKER to win because he knows he has passed him already in the all time great list, and another MVP puts the final nail in the debate. JOKER is better than Shaq period

Shaq jealous for 3 mvp for center that is not Shaq

Since Embiid went down, nobody has made a bigger impact this year than Luka

Shaq and Kenny are just either hating or clinically insane. How on Gods great earth do you have SGA over Luka and Luka as 2nd team?? 💀 SGA does more volume? Bro, without Luka that Mavs team never even is able to sniff or say the words “play in” cause they’d be that bad; especially before the trade deadline. You’re telling me, since acquiring Gafford and PJ, Luka has led the Mavs to a 21-7 record, got them OUT of the play in, and secured a either 5th or 4th seed and somehow he doesn’t contribute more “volume” than SGA? The only real MVP options are Luka and Jokić with both being correct answers but, I’d give it to Luka because he’s done more with less. If Luka had this squad to start the year off I PROMISE you he’s a top 3 seed with damn near being the 1 seed hands down no question. Injuries and lack of team size killed Lukas “team success” for the first half of the year and the second they filled the holes needed and stayed healthy they’ve been balling. Man about to get snubbed harder than Hero Boys ticket from Polar Express for a guy who just scores in SGA and THATS it. Luka: 50 30PT games 13 40PT games 21 TRPL DBL games 10 of those games were 30PT TRPL DBLs… So Shaq repeating that dumb point about SGAs 30PT games holds no meaning…Luka for MVP.

luka not winning the mvp this year is the biggest snub in the history of big snubs

Chuck and earnie are the only ones that make some sense. Shaq and kenny should be fired for the things they say and being baise. They really just don't want a white player to win mvp. Luka and joker are way better than sga.

All-NBA Teams should not be postionless imo, but if it was still the traditional 2 guards, 2 forwards, & a Center, I would choose Doncic & Shai as the 2 guards. Ant really has potential to be the next great SG under MJ, Kobe, & Wade, but I feel like he still has lots to improve on. He definitely took a step up this year, but there's still a lot of room for improvement. He still has a lot of nights where he struggles badly, scoring single digits only, inconsistencies, & shooting terribly. I'd like to see him take another step up next season, put himself in the MVP discussions, top player discussions, & become more efficient. Exactly like how Shai took a step this year from last year. Ant has all the tools though.

Its still Jokic, his efficiency is off the roof and he is the highest winning % when playing

Kenny Smith just said on National TV with a straight face he would not have Luka first team 😳

This was actually SO PAINFUL to listen to especially the all NBA part 😭😭 no hate to Shai because he's easily top 5 in the world but the gap between him and Luka is MASSIVE... and it's an even bigger gap between Luka and Ant. I really need to see Luka win multiple MVPs throughout his career, even if I wasn't a fan of his I'd still understand that what he is doing clearly makes him the best player in the world, if not that then 2nd best at worst. Crazy that I'm even saying this about Luka fucking Doncic but I guess we just gotta wait till he gets the recognition that he deserves 💔💔💔

Everyone forgetting Luka scored 73 this season too! A game that's statistically one of the best in history. "Oh but SGA's team had 5 more wins" get outta here

Usually I agree with the crew, but on Luka not being 1st team - or below SGA in MVP conversation - cant agree one bit

Sga who? Luka mvp

At this point everyone is racist. No other explanation.....

Joker mvp

3:25 I cannot believe they're even mentioning SGA. It's either Luka or Jokic.

3:17 Kenny is wrong. There are stats which can answer those queries. Individual success - Points Assists, rebounds, blocks etc. Value to the team - PIE(Player Impact Estimate). If you're talking individual success, then Luka is above SGA on points, assists and rebounds, hell, his average is close to a 30 pt triple double(33.9 ppg, 9.2 rpg, 9.8 apg). And if you're talking about PIE for these 3 players, both Jokic and Luka are above SGA. Which is to say, both Luka and Jokic have more of an impact on their team than SGA. Both Denver and Dallas' fall way down when Jokic and Luka are absent, compared to Shai in OKC. Without the 3 star players in any of these 3 teams, OKC is a much more op and balanced team than Denver and Dallas.

Luka- *33.9* ppg *9.8* assists *9.2* rebounds SGA- 30.1 ppg 6.2 assists 5.5 rebounds ANT- 25.9 ppg 5.1 assists 5.4 rebounds *SGA & ANT 1st team??? Math ain’t mathin* 🤔

Shaq is center rasict. He dont want big men to get multible awards. SGA is great but behind Jokic and Luka. 15 times 30pts is no good reason to win MVP. Sga´s overall statics looks pale in this race. But he can defend.

That man just said Luka Doncic is All NBA second team.😂😂😂😂😂😂 Oh my god!!😂😂😂

KENNY U GOT DAMN CRACK.....HOW ANT OVER LUKA

People need to stop the narrative that Joker isn't playing with any Allstars. Just because you aren't selected to the actual team, doesn't mean your aren't an Allstar caliber player. Jamal Murray balls out like a superstar every playoffs, better than some actual superstars do. If the Nuggets were the East, he'd be selected as an Allstar just like all them years Khris Middleton was selected mostly due to the Bucks having a top record. Not being selected to the Allstar game, does not mean you aren't an Allstar level player. I remember debating with someone on here, they were saying Luka doesn't have any Allstar teammates because none of them made the Allstar game this year. 😑 Bro, Kyrie is a freakin Allstar, he's a superstar! Don't claim he isn't an Allstar just to make a narrative that "Luka has no Allstar teammates." Lol

The things they say to discredit luka is insane. Most points, highest scoring game, 2 all time ppg apg rpg in history, 2 in asissts this season, only 3 rebounds shy of jokic who is playing center, luka is a point guard, lukas team had lot of injuries, he got a new team to lead after the midseason and you can go on and on about why he should be mvp. Shaq saying 30 point games argument with shai isn't making sense because then it should be luka who has more 30 point games. Them saying luka isn't first team all nba should have them fired for trying to push their agenda and being baist. All of them want a black player to win mvp and an american because european players really been dominating the nba in the last few years. I am sorry if i misspelled, english isn't my first language.

Kenny and Shaq playing dumb

“No, you get paid to answer questions about basketball” 😂

JOKER own the NBA, does what he wants when he wants!

Luka

Shai has an excellent support from Giddey, and Jaylen Williams. They are the least famous, but two of the greatest point guard and two guard.

Luka is mvp.

And people like this show? 😮

All of these clowns 🤡 need to stop it. They know them well the Joker and Luka are the ones. Period. 😂

4 old guys (i should say 3 cause ernie is ok) so pissed because europeans are ruling the nba

Luka stats are much better than SGA but Jokic deserves it and he should have got it last year too.

Back seat bus driving Kenny is wild man 😂.

Jokic is MVP again imo because he just does more scoring, rebounding and assisting

People really forgot or just choosing to ignore the biggest factor on Jokic winning his 2nd MVP. He had 2k points, 1k rebs and 500 assists that season. The first and only to ever to that! Russ won his for averaging a triple double, first since Big O. Both also lead the league in advanced stats. It made sense why the voters gave them a pass despite being 6th seed. My point is Luka doesn't have anything like those this season. He may have great stats, but nothing really historic or record breaking. If they were too 3 seed, he'd definitely deserve to get it but not as a 5th seed.

The m v p should possess both offensive and defensive prowess. Everyone's high on Luka and Bronson, but where is their defense?

There was literally a time you had to be top four (home court advantage) in your conference to get an MVP. I don't know exactly when that changed but I remember clearly that the reason KG got his only MVP was because he finally managed that feat. New NBA fans don't know that your team's standing actually matters in the MVP conversation and think it really is just a straight forward "Who is the most valuable for their team". If that was the case then it wouldn't matter if your team was in the playoffs either. So that's why SGA has a stronger case than Luka. Team record has always and will always matter.

this is becoming the reverse of the “I want my quarterbacks quarterbacky”

Damn they starting to sound like ESPN

I'm sorry but the NBA needs to be realigned because the disparity between conferences is absurdly large. No team in the East would even make the playoffs in the West other than the Celtics. Even the Celtics aren't doing so hot against the top teams in the West.

People really sleep on the fact Ant is already a bonafide two way star. He's like 5th in the league in opponent fg percentage.

If its not based on positions, just put first 5 in MVP race to be all nba 1st team...

Mvp shouod be jokic or luka. If you consider all the games the mavs played with kyrie out or luka or others players out and still getting 50 wins and not to mention luka was getting his numbers while still playing on with lingering injuries combined with his numbers scoring title and historic 73 pt night should be enough to give him the nod imo

wtf did I just watched

We are literally hearing voters say they voting for jokic no matter what any other player does. Ernie clearly only sees Jokic as the MVP despite a young player carrying his team on his back in SGA having OKC in a battle for the number one seed

I think what they do is bad for SGA. He might be in this discussion at some point in his career and potentially win the mvp legitimately. But if they give it to him now everyone knows it is bullshit and that is how it would be remembered.

36 wins and a chance in the playoffs is insane

What's Kenny on? He talks about individual success, LUKA has a better individal performance than Shai by far. But I'm mostly shocked about Shaq like he loved Jokic a year ago, why discredit him this year. He keeps getting better and his percentages are insasne

Brunson is 4th in the league in scoring, 7 assists a game, and more importantly, has a team as the second seed while playing without their entire starting front court for half of the season. It is incredible.

The "Joker" Nikola Jokic is my MVP.. Plays defense,scores,assist,rebounds ,leadership & selfless team mate

Thank you Ernie: “no joker is my MVP” way to go

Charles said we get paid to ask questions lol

For Joker's supporting cast he has one of the best defenders and beat offensive shooters in the league with Gordon and Jamal Murry. Jamal Murry has been to the play offs multiple times and PREFORMED and he has led scoring for the nuggets multiple times Gordon is just solid and the rest of the team is good. We need to stay yapping about all-nba like that matters half of it is popularity otherwise Jamal Murry would be considered more. And speaking of all NBA who outside of Kyrie has been on Luka's team - and tbh half of his team can't even make over 10pts half the time. Luka and Kyrie have to drop 25+ each a game to even be competitive

Shaq really said “positonless?”

Joker has no all stars ✨ on his team. All the others have all stars on their team. Joker has no all NBA players on his team.

THE CRITERIA NOT MAKIN NOT A BIT OF SENSE

Jokic showing out against the timberwolves locked up the MVP

SGA carried his team on his back. It ain't even close. Without him that team might not even qualify. Joker is great but the way they all judged it last year and the years before. Giannis lost out a few times because they said that he hadn't improved a lot over the previous years. Joker is right up there but if that was one of the criteria he dint improve by much either and when you talk about the 3rd mvp well they expected a lot of giannis. Need to keep the same energy. Cannot be changing the rules. Moreover, SGA as a pg, scoring, defence and overall leadership has been right up there with the elites. Atleast for this regular season and amongst all the MVPs his usage rate and leadership due to the young cast plays a much bigger role. Most Valuable to his team has to be SGA. It isnt just 30 point games its the sum of everything.

I see a trend here....

Kenny is like yoko ono from beatles. We all love the Inside the Nba crew but Kenny just kinda hang around and making noise that make no sense

Honestly I don’t think Jokic should’ve won his first 2 MVPs. I think he should’ve got the next 2 but that’s not what happened so it holds me back tbh because he already has those 2 and by the same logic he got them which I didn’t think he should get, Luka should blow this one out of the water. He’s averaging by far better numbers, does more heavy lifting and has lost a lot of surrounding players due to injury while the Nuggets are an amazing team that just mesh so well together. But the narrative shifts and changes every year so whatever. Every time I lose more faith in the MVP debate and care less and less for it. There have always been and will always be absolute robberies with players not getting more when they deserve or getting them when they don’t as much as someone else especially when the people voting don’t even know what they’re voting for and change it up all the damn time.

NBA and it's ''newslets'' are trying to snub Luka hard ever since Luka said that NBA is easier than Euro League. I have Joker as MVP, but putting SGA over Luka with argument of SGA having 30 50-points games, when Luka had 50 50-points games with less games played is criminal and biased at best, straight out manipulation at worst. Also arguing that Joker has better support when besides AG, Joker's teammates are incosistent AF (Including Murray, who can drop 40 one game just to drop 5 next) is criminal.

IMO, the reason OKC have a similar record to Denver is because Mark Daigneault is a far superior coach to Michael Malone. Malone gas great analysis after the fact but his in game coaching is dreadful! He is just very fortunate to have Jokic and his record without him is awful.

Kenny needs to publicly apologize for this

SGA over Luka and Joker, Ant over Luka for 1st team. Lol it's no Kendrick Perkins but these takes are as color-coordinated as Kenny's suits.

Luka Jokic SGA they're the top 3 candidates for this year's NBA leagues MVP

2:17 what else he should do? what others did? i mean you can not put up this numbers and not getting it.

THE DISRESPECT FOR JOKER AND LUKA , AAMEEERIKAAA

Shai Gilgeous Alexander is rhe MVP look up the head to head comparison against the other teams before you idiots say he not

Take Luka off the Mavs they’re a lottery team. Take SGA off OKC they still sneak into the playoffs. SGA winning MVP would be as ridiculous as Tatum winning MVP.

I'll give it to joker

@shaqoneal, not only score !!!😡😡😡if that the basis , Nikola won’t pass the ball 😡😡😡😡how about rebound ?? How about assist ???my God so many STUPxd on this world😡😡😡

Luka for mvp

So Luka is number 2 in MVP race but can't make 1st team All NBA? Mainstream media pundits are destroying their reputations with takes like these... They should not be surprised when people tune off

I don’t like the play in though…clearly heat are 6 games above bulls and 8 games above hawks but bulls and hawks still have a chance?

Joker is gonna put up the same exact numbers next year and want win MVP obviously it’s biased and funny how former or current players don’t vote but people like Ernie do 😂

Luka missed kyrie for 25 you clowns

Broooo luka 2nd team? He’s second in mvp, he’s so much better than edwards and he’s better then Shai slightly when I add the d that Shai provides. But even still luka is better overall

You guys can hate Luka all you want but he would still become one of the biggest earners in 2024 and 2025. According to Forbes, he was the 44th Highest paid athlete in the word in 2023 base on off-the-court and on-the-court earnings. He earned way bigger the Jokic, SGA and Ant. If he resign with Dallas in July 2025, he might get the highest contract ever offered in the NBA. When that happens, Luka will have the last laugh. 😂

Shaq playing fool

The efficiency stats are so underrated.

50 30 point games yet Luka has scored more points in less games?