Why a FIT Luka Doncic DOES NOT change ANYTHING for LeBron James & Los Angeles Lakers | THE HERD NBA

Why a FIT Luka Doncic DOES NOT change ANYTHING for LeBron James & Los Angeles Lakers | THE HERD NBA

AJ Pzinski going to join us coming up in about 10 minutes. Luca Donuch is looking good. There is no doubt about it. We saw the pictures yesterday on the show, but my god, some of you are overreacting and going just a little nuts. That’s next on the Herd. Yesterday, I think it showed the power of the Lakers and the power of late July that a magazine cover could come out that is straight PR and everyone would go insane. Like Luca Donic was on the cover of Men’s Health and Luca Donic looks shredded. He looks like Skinny Luca. Like you put those pictures up and we’ve seen him a little bit this off seasonason. We saw him with the Yankees. We’ve seen him out and about a little bit. He’s like, “Oh, Luca Donuch figured out what a barbell was. He learned about intermittent fasting. He apparently is drinking less and smoking less hookah and, you know, being a professional athlete.” and all of a sudden it’s oh my god, professional athlete works out in the off season. And I guess I didn’t fully realize that in a year where Luca was traded in arguably the craziest trade in NBA history when he had a significant calf strain that is often a precursor if you do not fully heal it to blowing out your Achilles. see Tyrese Hallebertton and he took his time coming back from that and it had an impact on his conditioning, appearance, all of those things. I feel like people forgot who Luca Donuch was. Like Luca is awesome and I love Chris Brousard and I can’t wait to chop it up with him more on the regular on First Things First, but when we had him on the yesterday, you would have thought that Luca Donuch was reborn based on these pictures. When I saw this article, saw how Luca looked, read it about, you know, how he’s changed and this summer’s different for him, I gave a big shout out to LeBron James. Like, this this is a testament to LeBron James’s example and the impact it had on Luca Donas. I think he played with LeBron and saw why as much physical ability as LeBron has, as much natural ability, as much size and strength and athleticism as LeBron has naturally, he goes above and beyond to become the player he is. Even though Luca didn’t say that in the article, and maybe this is a little media insight, but getting a magazine cover, it’s not that difficult for A-list superstar athletes and celebrities. Like, this was a puff piece. This was the superstar athlete equivalent of like you ever break up with someone and then hit the weights because you want to have that revenge look be, you know, new year, new me. Luca got dissed by the Mavericks. They leaked a bunch of stuff to the media about his professionalism and he’s putting this out there to show them what they missed. This is the superstar athlete equivalent of getting dumped, working out, and then posting a shirtless pick with pecs and biceps on Instagram. Something I would know nothing about. Not because I’ve never been dumped, but because I have no biceps or pecs. But the point is this. The point is people forget that Luca Donic, I mean, people act like the guy doesn’t play basketball. Before last year, 70 games played, 66 games played, 65 games played, 66 games, 61, 72. plus his international schedule. Luca Donuch plays basketball a lot. Like, oh, now that Luca Donuch is intermittent fasting and doing bicep curls, I’m going to bet him for MVP. Luca was already a really safe favorite type of bet for MVP. We’ve saw him two seasons ago carry the Dallas Mavericks to the NBA Finals. We have seen him average 349 and 10 in a season two years ago. Like list of best players in the NBA, whatever your order is. Joic, SGA, Giannis, Tatum, Luca. Like I know LeBron was sixth in MVP voting. I know Donovan Mitchell was first team all NBA, but Luca didn’t play in enough games to qualify. He was traded in the middle of the season. He had the calf injury. It was a weird year. But I think most people would agree that Luca Donuch is in the conversation for being a top five player in the world. So, good for the professional athlete working out in the offseason. Maybe he’ll start a little faster, but he’s not gonna get like better at defense. And I don’t think it’s possible for him to get much better at basketball than averaging 339 and 10. So, I’m just a little confused as to what we’re talking about here. I It’s PR. It’s spin. It’s image control. It’s damage control. It’s it it doesn’t have to be anything more than that. And I am just I expect even if Luca Donuch, I would have seen him at the hookah bar. If that would have been the thing, if he would have been on the cover of instead of Men’s Health, he would have been on the cover of Hookah magazine, I would be like, man, Luca could win MVP next year because he’s Luca Donic. That the talent is enough where he can win MVP. But Men’s Health is apparently supposed I I didn’t know I didn’t know being on the cover of Men’s Health was supposed to change the way that we all felt about one of the five greatest offensive players in the sport and arguably one of the five greatest all all-around players in the sport because he’s doing bicep curls and shoving all of his meals into eight hours a day. But I’m learning things as we go throughout this life.

Danny Parkins reacts to Los Angeles Lakers Luka Doncic’s viral fitness photo shoot for Men’s Health magazine. How much of an impact will a fit Luka make on LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers? Are people overreacting by saying he is a lock for NBA MVP?

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