Joel Embiid, after getting robbed of the MVP many times, has won the MVP (most valuable player).
How it All Started
Embiid was born in Yaoundé, Cameroon on March 16, 1994. Twenty-nine years later he’s an MVP and leading the 76ers to a championship. How did it happen? He was a very tall volleyball player and did not pick up a basketball until he was 15 years old. He’d played pick up basketball shooting bricks, while yelling out Kobe. 7 years later he was playing Kobe. He got invited to play in a basketball camp and two months later he was on a plane to Florida for a high school in America after playing basketball for only 3 months. He was only 16 years old when he first arrived in America and did not know any English, or anyone in America. He was skinny, soft and the first practice he went to he got kicked out of because he was so bad. A year later he committed to Kansas. In his first scrimmage at Kansas he got dunked on so badly that he looked at plane tickets back to Cameroon and he asked his coach if he could red shirt. Embiid watched and studied YouTube videos of Hakeem Olajuwon, Kobe Bryant, Micheal Jordan, and other big men. He got drafted in the 1st round 3rd pick by the Philadelphia 76ers.
Through the Years
In his first year, he only played in only 31 games but still managed to be an All rookie in the 2016-2017 season. The next year Embiid, averaging 27.5 points per game, brought the Sixers to the playoffs but they fell short in game 5 to Boston. The next year Embiid got his first All-star selection but the Sixers fell short of a championship appearance after they lost in the conference semifinals in game 7 to the Raptors since Kawhi Leonard hit a buzzer beater that hit the rim 5 times to win game 7. In the Covid shortened 2019 season, Embiid averaged 23 points, 11.6 rebounds, and 3 assists but the Sixers got swept by the Celtics in the first round. In 2020, Embiid averaged 28.5 points and the Sixers ended the regular season 1st in the East but got stopped on their road to victory by the Hawks in game 7 in the conference semifinals. Joel Embiid averaged 30.6 points, 11.7 rebounds and 4.2 assists in 68 games in the 2021-22 season and finished second in the MVP vote. He and many other people felt like he got robbed. The Sixers would lose in game 7 to the Heat in the conference finals. Through the years Embiid has been a 6x All Star, 2x Scoring Champ, 4x All-NBA, 2016-17 All-Rookie, 3x All-Defensive, and now a 2022-23 MVP.
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Embiid ended the 2022-2023 season with 33.1 points per game (1st) 10.2 rebounds (8th) and 4.2 assist (52nd). He had only 10 regular season games where he had under 30 points and had 3 games that he had over 50 points. Embiid finished with 73 first place votes edging Nikola Jokić, who had 15 first place votes and Giannis Antetokounmpo, 12 first place votes. Embiid is the first player to win the MVP as a 76er since Allen Iverson in the 2000-01 season and he is only the seventh international player to be named MVP. But after getting robbed multiple times Joel Embiid finally has what he deserves, an MVP.
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