NO LOVE for Luka Doncic in Tim Bontemps’ NBA MVP straw poll? + Perk’s MVP favorite | SportsCenter

NO LOVE for Luka Doncic in Tim Bontemps’ NBA MVP straw poll? + Perk’s MVP favorite | SportsCenter

To the NBA where ESPN’s NBA MVP straw pull 2.0 is out the first one saw Joel and be streaking towards a second straight MVP but of course he’s an eligible now and now a repeat MVP offender himself in the poll position Nico yic at top the polls streaking to

What would be his third MVP title and certainly the numbers are there if you haven’t been watching I mean they’ve nearly mirrored the numbers from his previous two MVP campaigns this season he’s averaging over 26 points per game on 58% shooting and is an assist per

Game shy of averaging a triple double in addition to the straw pole by the way ESPN bet has yage as a minus 200 favorite to win the MVP from the man that brought us the straw poll we get to our NBA reporter Tim Bon tips and I just

Want you to put into some perspective what company yage would be keeping if he did get that third MVP well yeah Alis Jason Tatum one of the guys who’s behind him in the pole is warming up obviously there’s a ton of contenders still with a Chance of

Potentially get ahead in Ni coio and win this MVP but if he is able to become one of nine players in the history of the league to win three MVPs in his career it obviously would move him into even more rarified air than the defending champion and already two-time MVP has

Already accomplished and what’s been a pretty remarkable career already coming out of Serbia you look at Nicole yic going into the same category as guys like Will Chamberlain Bill Russell Kareem Abdul Jabar uh Lebron James I mean it is a star studded list of players that he’d be getting in same

Conversation has and with about 30 games left to go in the season jic is clearly in that conversation now he’s got the lead in the straw pole as you mentioned Joel embiid now ineligible after missing his 18th game over the weekend with the new NBA rules he can no longer be voted

For and certainly he’s going to be out of the mix anyway with him being out several weeks with this knee injury y could just put himself in Prime position where if he can get Denver to the top of the Western Conference standings I think it’s going to be very hard to knock him

Off his perch top the straw pole in the final one in a few weeks let’s talk about some of were those contenders that you mentioned Luca donic fourth in your straw pole right now despite the fact that he is second in the league in scoring and he has more assists than yic

Himself why is he not getting any love I think very simply Al because the combination of the other guys ahead of him joic sheld Salander and Yas tupo all having incredible statistical cases themselves and also the fact that frankly L and the Mavs are still in seventh place in the Western Conference

They haven’t been able to get out of the playin mix yet and for his incredible as Luca stats are and as you just list it off they are otherworldly for as well as he’s playing if you look at their their situation and the standings related to

These other teams it just isn’t in the same ballp and I think if Luca was completely lapping the field from a sta statistical standpoint perhaps you could see him get in there but he’s going to need to get Dallas up to fourth or fifth in the west I think to have a real

Chance to pass joic and those other guys in the closing weeks I suppose the bright side for Luca he’s Western Conference player of the week so really very close to being him the MVP get the trophy by the way LC and the M back in Action tomorrow night they’ll host wimy

And the Spurs Tim Bon Tims thanks for bringing us to stra pool and joining us in sports Kendrick Perkins is with us now so another storyline that’s coming out here last night was Giannis and the Bucks dominating the defending champs in the Nuggets perk what are your thoughts

On Doc Rivers starting the to turn things around with this Milwaukee defense right now damn it feel good to have a guy like Patrick bivle in the locker room you remember everybody was making fun of him when the Bucks played against the Hornets and he had that clipboard and

Was showing Brook Lopez something and holding him accountable well I saw that last night against the defending champs the way that Brook Lopez and Yannis an the kopo anchored that defense that was the best that I’ve seen in a long time from those two and we already know what

They’re capable of doing arguably both could be defensive player of the year when they’re in the right mindset when I think about what they the effect that they could have on the game also covering up for the lack of perimeter defense that they have and Damen Lillard

And and Malik Beasley along with Jay Crowder and Chris midon when he gets back look if them if those two guys are going to play like that every single night then I’m going to become a fan of the Milwaukee Bucks but it’s a nice you know they needed some medicine yeah last

Night was their antibiotics they’ve been sick the whole season and Are Back In Action tonight hosting the heat the latest MVP straw poll we just heard Tim Bon Temps talk to L right now Nicole yic leads the voting followed by Shay gilis Alexander and then Giannis who’s your MVP right

Now you know what I don’t understand the whole straw pole maybe I have to hit Tim up on the later dat but look I got to go with the young fell SGA Shay Gill is Alexander down there in Oklahoma City and what he’s doing right now averaging

31 a night 5 and 1/2 rebounds 6 and 1/2 assists and he’s shooting almost 55% from the field and they are one game from being in first place in the top Western Conference he is one of the most prolific Elite scores in the game today

He cannot be stopped by nobody so when I think about what he’s doing and what he’s doing with this young group of guys that he’s playing with he is MVP right now not taking anything away from joic Tatum Luca Anthony Ed was none of those guys cuz they are definitely in the

Conversation but that man right there is special okay to your point about the straw poll he did get 24 first place votes right now according to Tim Bon tempson straw pole so there are some in the league that see it the same way you do SGA scoring 30 or more points in 38

Of his 52 games perk thank you so much NBA [Applause] [Applause] is

Tim Bontemps joins Elle Duncan on SportsCenter to report on Nikola Jokic, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Giannis Antetokounmpo’s NBA MVP campaign as Joel Embiid is slated to become ineligible due to the 65-game rule before Kendrick Perkins joins to talk Milwaukee Bucks under Doc Rivers and why he has SGA as his current MVP favorite.

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