Thirty seconds on the mic, here we go. Austin Reaves, Luka Doncic’s Lakers team-mate, said Luka has done what he does for eight years and that, when he does it, there’s no wow factor. No wow factor. You hear that like I do? Wow factor is my job.
The background. Draymond Green, of the Warriors, repeated to Sam Amick of The Athletic, after the season opener against the Lakers, that Doncic will never win MVP. He calls it “greatness fatigue”. He says anyone else with those numbers walks away with the trophy, and he brings up LeBron James. In the NBA general managers’ poll for 2026-27 MVP, Doncic got zero votes.
Right. A player who does the same thing for eight years, I don’t let him wear out. I change the entrance. On Saturdays, my forward: seven seasons I’ve been announcing him. So one time it’s the dark, one time it’s the two spotlights from the school fête, one time it’s Dutch first. The player hasn’t changed. I’m the one doing the work.
So I do it again. The caretaker cuts half the lights. Mesdames et messieurs, dames en heren, at number seventy-seven… [two-second pause] … Luka! [jingle] Make some noise.
The sound system coughed in the middle of the jingle. It has an opinion too.
Reaves thinks that if the Lakers finish third or fourth, there’s a chance. Me, I’ll just say that sometimes the fatigue is at the mic. Just saying.
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