Everyone has fallen in love with the idea of Luka Doncic putting up gaudy numbers, helping the Los Angeles Lakers overachieve in 2025-26, and finally winning the first NBA MVP of his career. The only problem with that is last time that formula was put together for the Dallas Mavericks, it did not include the last part of that equation.
Sam Vecenie served everyone a reminder of that fact during a recent episode of the Game Theory Podcast. Doncic looked like an MVP in 2023-24 for the Mavericks. The Slovenian superstar was not crowned with that distinction.