Luka Doncic has been playing at a historic level all season long, leading the league in scoring and carrying the Los Angeles Lakers to third place in the Western Conference. And now, with the playoffs just around the corner, it's all hanging by a thread.

The Lakers star is out indefinitely with a Grade 2 left hamstring strain, sources told ESPN's Shams Charania. He'll miss the remainder of the regular season, and his status beyond that is uncertain. The timeline for a Grade 2 strain? Usually 4-6 weeks.

But here's where this story gets really interesting, folks.

Doncic has played 61 games this season. The NBA requires 65 games played to be eligible for end-of-season awards, including MVP. So even though the man has been putting up one of the most dominant scoring seasons in recent memory, he might not even be eligible for consideration.

Now, his agent Bill Duffy is filing what's called an "Extraordinary Circumstances Challenge" to the 65-game rule. Why? Because Luka missed two games this season for the birth of his second child in Slovenia. His daughter was born on December 4 on another continent, and yet he was back in the United States competing with his team on December 6.

"Luka has gone to great lengths to show up for his team and this league this season," Duffy said in a statement. "His record-breaking season deserves to be noted in the history books, despite last night's unfortunate injury and other extraordinary circumstances."

Let me be clear - I get why the 65-game rule exists. Load management got out of hand. The league needed to do something. But are we really going to tell a guy he can't win MVP because he flew halfway around the world to witness his child's birth and then rushed back two days later to play?

That's the human element versus the letter of the law, and it doesn't sit right with me.