Luka Doncic Addresses Making His MVP Case After Breaking Kobe's Lakers Record, Making NBA History

Despite enjoying a historic month of March, Los Angeles Lakers superstar guard Luka Dončić isn't lobbying for NBA MVP votes.

After dropping 42 points in the Lakers' 127-113 win over the Cleveland Cavaliers on Tuesday, Dončić didn't have much to say when asked by reporters if he wanted to state his MVP case:

"I mean, I never did that, so, I'm not the one voting," Dončić said. "I think I've been playing pretty good, we've been winning. That's it, that's all I gotta say."

Per Mike Trudell of Spectrum SportsNet, Dončić broke Kobe Bryant's record for the most points ever scored by a single Lakers player in March. Bryant previously held the mark with 578 points.

Underdog NBA added that by averaging 37.5 points per game in March, Dončić became the 10th player in league history to score 600 or more points in a single month:

The NBA announced that Dončić also happened to reach the 15,000-career-point mark on Tuesday, doing so in the sixth-fewest games played in league history.

Lakers head coach JJ Redick acknowledged after Tuesday's game that Dončić had one of the best months he had ever seen, saying, "Luka has had as good of a month as anybody that I can remember in modern NBA at least since I've been part of it. Certainly LeBron [James] has had those, [James] Harden has had those, Steph [Curry] has had those, but he just played phenomenally this month."

Given his recent play and the fact that the Lakers have won 13 of their past 14 games, the 27-year-old Dončić has to be considered a leading MVP candidate along with Oklahoma City Thunder guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and San Antonio Spurs center Victor Wembanyama.

Dončić is letting his play and his numbers speak for themselves, though, as he leads the NBA in scoring with 33.8 points per game, while also averaging 8.3 assists and 7.8 rebounds for a Lakers team that is 50-26 and in third place in the supremely talented and deep Western Conference.

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Recently, Wembanyama decided to go public with why he feels he deserves to be MVP, telling reporters, "My first one would be that defense is 50 percent of the game and that it is undervalued so far in the MVP race. I believe I'm the most impactful player defensively in the league. Second argument would be that we almost swept OKC in the season, and we dominated them three times with their real team. ... The third argument would be that offense impact is not just points."

Gilgeous-Alexander declined to do the same, saying, "Nah, I'm good. Thanks for asking, though. … I let my game do the talking."

Dončić essentially followed the SGA path on Tuesday night, which may prove to be the best course of action since there is little he could have said that would have made a bigger statement than his recent on-court play already has.