The NBA regular season continues, earlier today, the 76ers sat at home against the Orlando Magic, facing the weak team Magic, the 76ers quickly adjusted their form, the inside core Embiid in the Magic's inner line overturned the sea, killing all sides. Embiid played 27 minutes, shooting 17-of-23, and cut down 50 points, 12 rebounds, 2 assists, 1 steal and 3 blocks, with a plus-minus of +24 team-high statistics.
This game can be said to be embiid's performance time, Embiid used practical actions to interpret what is called doing whatever he wants in the opponent's interior line, and one person penetrated the magic team's inner line. In the first quarter, Embiid scored 20 of the team's first 22 points in less than 10 minutes. In the third quarter of the game, Embiid launched an onslaught, back-up jump shot again and again, and ravaged the basket again and again, the Magic could not stop Embiid's lethality, and in the third quarter was bombarded by the 76ers a wave of 47-23 points. In this quarter, Embiid scored 23 points in the quarter.
By the end of the third quarter, Embiid had 47 points, 11 rebounds and 2 blocks, and embiid played for a while in the fourth quarter, fixing the data at 50 points, 12 rebounds, 3 blocks, 2 assists and 1 steal before clocking out of work. After this campaign, Embiid reached a number of data milestones.
First of all, 50 points in a single game is Embiid's highest score of the season; Embiid has only spent 27 minutes to score 50 points is the fastest player in history to get this statistic; Embiid is the second player in the history of the 76ers to shoot 50 points and 10 rebounds multiple times, behind Chamberlain; this is the 17th time embiid has hit at least 40 points and 10 boards in team history, second only to Chamberlain. Embiid's 17 40+10s, all played after the 2017-18 season, were second only to Harden in the league at the same time; this was the 73rd time embiid's career that he hit at least 30 points and 10 boards, equaling Hall of Fame star Billy Cunningham.
After Embiid scored 50 points, the Lakers' celebrity Magician tweeted: "Embiid should be discussed more in the MVP discussion." According to the results of last season's regular season MVP selection, Jokic got 91 of the 101 votes, and Embiid only got 1. If he really told Embiid, he was able to play 10 more games last year, maybe the final MVP result will really become Embiid.
This season, Embiid has become a strong candidate for the regular season MVP, averaging 28 points, 10.6 rebounds, 4.2 assists, 1.1 steals and 1.4 blocks in 32 minutes per game, shooting 49.4% from the field and 37.5% from three-point range. Combined with the data of Jokic, who won the MVP last season, he averaged 26.4 points, 10.8 rebounds and 8.3 assists per game, and Embiid is only a little less in the number of assists, if Embiid continues to maintain this state, this season's MVP is really difficult to say.
This season, the 76ers have lost Ben Simmons, which is more of a reflection of Embiid's value. The 76ers' record has climbed to fifth in the East with 26 wins and 18 losses, and if Embiid can maintain such a hot offensive and defensive state, then he really has a chance to "catch up later" and keep himself in the possibility of competing for MVP.