44 points + 42 points! No. 1 in the league! If you were an American, you would have won the MVP list a long time ago
Now in the NBA league, there are more and more young stars in the United States, NBA President Xiao Hua wants to praise Zion Williams and Morant, but neither of them is competitive, their strength is not as good as Doncic, and there are scandals all over the court, and their personal image has plummeted. After James, Durant, Curry, Harden and other veteran stars retire, will the young rising stars in the United States continue to be brilliant? Jokic, Antetokounmpo, Embiid, Doncic, Alexander, these representatives of the strongest stars in the current league, they are not players from the United States. 44 points + 42 points! No. 1 in the league! If you were an American, you would have won the MVP list a long time ago.
Over the past five seasons, NBA regular season MVP winners: Antetokounmpo (2018-19, 2019-20), Jokic (2020-21, 2021-2022) and Embiid (2022-23). This season (2023-24), the top three on the league's official regular season MVP list (latest issue): Embiid, Jokic, Alexander, Doncic and Antetokounmpo. It's still these five people, and the thunder can't move. The NBA league is a bit of an MVP this season, Embiid averages the most free throws per game (11.6) in the league, and he is taken care of more by the referees. Moreover, Embiid has obtained American citizenship, and he has publicly declared that he wants to represent Team USA in the Olympics, which will surely be favored by the NBA.
Embiid's stats this season are truly gorgeous: averaging 34.6 points + 11.8 rebounds + 6.0 assists + 1.1 steals + 2.0 blocks per game, shooting 53.5% from the field. However, Embiid has missed the past week due to injury, and in the last nine games, Embiid has only played in two games and missed seven games. Therefore, American media NBA expert reporters and fans believe that Embiid can always be ranked first in the MVP of the regular season, which makes no sense, you haven't played any games for more than two weeks, the 76ers' record has been declining, and Embiid can still rank first on the MVP list, which is outrageous, this is an unreasonable situation.
Fans in the comment area said that if there was a decent super young star in the United States, and a little bit of power, the NBA league would not praise Embiid as a "fake American". Why is Embiid a fake American? Because he was born in Cameroon and became a French naturalized French (he announced that he would represent France at the Olympics in 2022) and became an American last year (he announced that he would play for the United States at the Olympics in 2023). NBA President Xiao Hua really can't help it, there is no such thing as a sharp young star like Jandu in the United States, and the league officials have no way to praise it, and now they can only praise Embiid.
In fact, in the recent period, whether it is personal data or team record, the best MVP candidate is Alexander of the Thunder. It's just that Alexander is too low-key, and the league doesn't want to praise him, his explosive personal data and excellent team leadership record have been ignored by others. Alexander averaged 31.5 points (third in the league) + 5.9 rebounds + 6.4 assists + 2.4 steals (first in the league) + 0.8 blocks per game while shooting 55.8% from the field. Led by Alexander, the Thunder are 9-1 in their last 10 games, the best in the league. The 76ers' recent record is 2-7, and Embiid's absence due to injury has slumped.
How good Alexander is, third in the league in offensive scoring ability, first in the league in defensive steal ability, and second in the West with a leading record, only 0.5 wins away from the Timberwolves, the first in the West. When the team needed him to cut points, Alexander bombarded 44 points + 4 rebounds + 6 assists + 2 steals + 1 block, 42 points + 7 rebounds + 6 assists + 2 steals, and when the team needed him to pass the ball, Alexander slashed 40 points + 5 rebounds + 12 assists + 3 steals + 1 block, and slashed 32 points + 5 rebounds + 10 assists + 1 steal + 2 blocks. Alexander's ability to switch between scoring and passing assists is the dominance of a top-tier two-way defender.
The regular season MVP list only ranked third for two consecutive weeks, and fans were upset about Alexander: "If Alexander was an American, NBA Xiao Hua would have praised him a long time ago, and he would have won the first place in the regular season MVP." ”