Luka Dealt to Lakers: Nico Harrison is a Basketball Terrorist

[mvossman]

Luka is in his 7th season. By comparison, Bird won his 3rd MVP in his 7th season, and in his 1st 9 seasons he was never lower than 4th (including 3 wins, and 4 2nds). FWIW he also made 3 All-Defense teams and finished as high as 3rd for DPOY one year. No one ever bitched about Bird's conditioning - far from it. Bird averaged over 3000 minutes per season for his first 9 seasons, averaging about 80 games per season and about 39 mpg, while playing at that MVP level.

If Luka is going to have that kind of career, he's way behind.

I don't think Luka is going to have the same career as Larry Bird, but Luka came into the league 4 years younger than Bird, so comparing them at number of seasons is maybe not completely fair.