The NBA Finals’ Best Player Is Also Its Most Annoying

Tonight in Boston, the Dallas Mavericks, led by world-historic weirdo Kyrie Irving and Slovenian ball magician Luka Dončić, will face off against the devil’s own Boston Celtics in game one of the 2024 NBA Finals.

Dončić has been one of the NBA’s best players, and certainly its best backcourt player, for the last few years. He is many things: a shit talker, a three-point shooter, an ace ball handler, an incredible lob passer, and the greatest Slovenian basketball player who has ever lived. But, more than anything Luka is the modern NBA game manifested, a player standing in stark defiance of anything resembling the game’s past.

Michael Jordan may or may not have been the greatest basketball player who ever lived but he was by far the most perfect. He was great. What made him great? He could dribble like a madman and create his shot from anywhere. Any single defender was turned into dust, any double was managed properly, the clutch shots went down.

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