Bill Simmons

And I test wise, he's unstoppable.

And to me, that matters more than any part of the case.

He's on the best team and he's the best guy at the end of these games.

Well, so that leads to, I want to go back to Shay, but that leads to an email from Trevor V. You're in this email.

You and house both hammered the under and the Lakers win total.

They already crushed it.

They're the three seed in the West.

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,