Joel Embiid won the MVP award last season. Most people say that he doesn’t deserve it and Nikola Jokic deserves it. But I believe that Embiid did deserve it and going so far this season it looks like Embiid is going to go back to back. Embiid is more of a true center where he is a post up player but can shoot threes. Jokic does the same but doesn’t score as often but he gets a lot more assists. This year Embiid is going for a record of 30+ points and 10+ rebounds a game. Embiid broke the franchise record for most 30 and 10 games in a row passing out Wilt Chamberlain.
For this year’s stat Embiid is averaging 34.4 points with a 54.4% FG percentage, 33.8 3pt %, 11.8 rebounds, 1.1 steals and 1.9 blocks per game. He is doing all of this while he is only playing 34 minutes per game. He is averaging a point per minute in the games he is playing in. He is leading the league in ppg and the 76ers are rolling right now. In the Month of December he is averaging 40 points per game. With what Embbid is doing right now he deserves the MVP. If he keeps doing what he is doing right now he deserves the MVP. I would like to see Embiid to win back to back MVPS but if he does, everyone is going to say he doesn’t deserve it. If he wins it again this year he should prove everyone wrong.