On April 15, Beijing time, the NBA regular season has ended, and tomorrow's playoffs will also enter the final day of competition. So far, the majority of awards have been released, Curry has been riding the dust and winning the three-point king, Gobert has been elected the rebounding king, Dezhangtai Murray has become the steal king, Paul is the assist king this season, and Embiid is the new scoring king. Of course, these are not the most important awards, the championship and the FMVP are the ultimate goals that all players dream of, in addition to the regular season MVP.
Judging from the current situation, the MVP competition is a three-legged situation, jokic, Embiid and Alphabet Brother will compete, but the voice is more biased towards the top two. If Embiid can win both the leading scorer + MVP, he will make history and become the first Cameroonian player to achieve such a feat in the NBA; if Jokic wins the MVP, he will also break the NBA record and become the first player in the history of the league to win the MVP as a second-round show, and the first player in Serbia to win the MVP in the NBA twice in a row.
For Brother Alphabet, he has won the MVP twice, so the championship and the FMVP are more important; for Embiid, he has never received such an honor, and the importance of the MVP is self-evident if he wants to enter the Hall of Fame. However, the MVP's latest voting results gave him a blow, and the last thing Embiid wanted to see happened. Judging from the 41 MVP first votes currently open, Embiid only won 9 of them, and Alphabet Brother only got 4, so who won the most first votes?
It was Jokic. Jokic won a total of 28 first votes, which can be said to be a crushing advantage for Alphabet Brother and Embiid, even if the first votes of the two people combined, it is not enough to pose a threat to Jokic, not even half of Jokic. The first vote often determines the ownership of the MVP, and in addition, in terms of total points, Jokic scored a total of 320 points, and Embiid only scored 239 points, the gap between the two is still very large. That said, Jokic has basically locked in the MVP, and if there are no accidents, Embiid will once again rub shoulders with this honor. You know, MVP is the target that Embiid has been chasing this season, but unfortunately, Jokic is still better in the end.
Jokic averaged 27.1 points, 13.8 rebounds and 7.9 assists per game this season, shooting 58.3 percent from the field, Embiid averaged 30.6 points, 11.7 rebounds, 4.2 assists, shooting 49.9 percent from the field, in addition to scoring, Embiid's three main stats were crushed by Jokic, and the latter was more important for the game, when Jokic came off, the Nuggets' offense was very chaotic, and when Embiid came off, the effect was not so obvious, Embiid may be very unwilling, But he can only wait until next season to make a comeback, and Jokic has won the MVP, which can be said to be well deserved.