Bill Simmons

Luca is averaging an absurd 34-8-8 and has the team that you and Joe House, the preeminent NBA experts on the planet, pegged as an easy under.

It's like kind of a nice compliment.

Trevor wants to know, why is Luka not the MVP?

I'm getting this a lot from Laker fans lately.

You obviously felt he had a terrible team around him as he took the under on the Lakers, which by the way, it was like 48.

Shea is the MVP for having the defending champs, which he took the over on exactly where he thought they'd be.

Crack a please.

That's how he ended it.

The Luka case, Luka has been the most viable player in the league or co-MVP with Wemby for the last, really since the All-Star break, I would say.

They've been the best two guys.

As a measuring stick.

It's an 82 game season, unfortunately.

Well, it's just, he was player of the month in January, but somewhere near the end of January and around that three week stretch,

It was pretty iffy for him and the Lakers just from the eye test.

And there was some November, December stuff.

There was another stretch in there.

I don't know.

SGA has just been so consistent the whole time.

I think that has to matter when you talk about the award.

You're in my area now.