{"id":490657,"date":"2026-03-31T08:11:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T06:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=490657"},"modified":"2026-03-31T08:11:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T06:11:17","slug":"jj-redick-backs-luka-doncic-for-mvp-to-me-he-is-the-mvp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/jj-redick-backs-luka-doncic-for-mvp-to-me-he-is-the-mvp\/","title":{"rendered":"JJ Redick backs Luka Doncic for MVP: \u201cTo me, he is the MVP\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"7162\" data-end=\"7439\">According to <strong data-start=\"7175\" data-end=\"7188\">JJ Redick<\/strong>, if the <strong data-start=\"7197\" data-end=\"7219\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/strong> keep closing the season at their current pace, <strong data-start=\"7267\" data-end=\"7282\">Luka Doncic<\/strong> should be named <strong data-start=\"7299\" data-end=\"7306\">MVP<\/strong>. Redick described the Slovenian star as the engine behind the team\u2019s recent winning stretch.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"7441\" data-end=\"7682\">ESPN noted that Doncic has averaged <strong data-start=\"7477\" data-end=\"7506\">36.5 points since Feb. 28<\/strong> while leading the Lakers to a <strong data-start=\"7537\" data-end=\"7552\">14-2 record<\/strong> over that span. He also leads the NBA in scoring at <strong data-start=\"7605\" data-end=\"7629\">33.7 points per game<\/strong> this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lakers coach tied Doncic\u2019s case to Los Angeles\u2019 strong finish, with the team surging near the top of the Western Conference<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":372083,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-490657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Los-Angeles-Lakers.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490657"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=490657"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=490657"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=490657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}