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Doncić is the next Anthony Davis in the sense that he'll spend first 10 years of his career as yearly being the first favorite to win MVP and never get really that close lol.
I get your point to an extent that the "Luka GOAT trajectory" stuff is starting to run a bit thin but I think it's more of a KD situation than an AD situation
KD like Luka was All NBA 1st team basically from the very start of his career and never really became consensus best player in the world like many thought he would but still won an MVP and was runner up several other times while being a top 2/3 player yearly during his prime
I can see the same thing happening with Luka where it's not necessarily "Luka's league" like people thought it would be but he's still consistently a tier 1 player and eventually wins MVP
I'm just talking about the facts about MVP, zero opinion. Someone gets voted MVP or not, we know for what, and that's it.
Durant had results, that's it, also a fact. For his two first seasons he did not, he was super talented and hyped but overall his play did not make the team overall better, but after that he was. And what a surprise, because of that in 2009-10 season he went from zero MVP votes to 2nd in the voting, because the voters just look at it, it's not a comment on anything, it's just what happens, I didn't want to connect it to anything else.
It’s also a situation where if Luka retired tomorrow, some people are arguing he’s already a Hall of Famer based solely on his European league career.
His NBA legacy isn’t solidified yet but he’s in the conversation for an MVP and I think he has enough raw ability to be the top guy on a championship team.
But if he retired tomorrow, he has an arguable hall of fame career at age twenty-five. How rare is that? He probably wouldn’t be considered an all-time great but his overall career including Europe is above-average even without individual NBA accolades. He’s already been named Euroleague MVP and that’s pretty much unanimously the second-best league in the world.
He won’t be a Jordan or LeBron level GOAT contender but if he can get over the hump, he could very well have an outstanding basketball legacy.