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Philadelphia 76ers star center Joel Embiid averaged 30.6 points per game this season, beating Giannis Antetokounmpo’s 29.9 to take the league’s scoring title and become the first player in league history. A foreign player who won the scoring title.
The last center to win the scoring title was Shaquille O’Neal in the distant 1999-2000 season with 29.7 points.
Embiid’s 30.6 points was also the first center to break the 30-point mark in a single season since the legendary center Moses Malone’s 31.1 points in the 1981-1982 season. The team’s legendary “Iceman” Gewen (George Gervin) won his fourth career scoring title with 32.3 points.
As for the previous center who won the scoring title and averaged 30 points per game, it must be traced back to the ancient times of Bob McAdoo, who averaged 31.3 points in the 1976-1977 season.
In addition, Embiid also broke Stephen Curry’s record of 34.2 minutes in the 2015-2016 season with 33.8 minutes and became the leading scorer with the shortest minutes per game since the timer was activated.
When he played once morest the Pacers for the last time this season, Embiid wrote an astonishing record of 41 points and 20 rebounds. The record for the highest individual player in a single season, breaking the record of 12 40 points and 10 rebounds in a single season set by “Russell Westbrook” in the 2016-2017 season and Moses Malone in the 1981-1982 season.It is worth mentioning that both of them won the“Regular Season MVP”。
Does Embiid have a chance to catch up with his predecessors? (Even though Embiid is not on the right track with Turtle, he should still want to keep up with his achievements!)
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Compared to the scoring champion, Embiid seems more eager to win the regular season MVP, Embiid said: “I want to be in the top ten or even the top five players in history, MVP is an important selection criteria, so winning MVP is very important. I’m very important and I want to be honored to show.”
But he also said: “It’s great to win the MVP, but if I don’t get it, I don’t know what more I can do. I probably think they don’t like me and have a way with me and my team. different standards.”
Hmm…I think following hearing this, the judges probably don’t want to vote for him…
It is really not easy to win the scoring title and create a lot of history. It should have the effect of extra points for him to compete for the MVP of the regular season, but the scoring title and MVP cannot be equated with the past 75 MVPs. Only 18 of them are scoring champions, the most recent being Embiid’s teammate “The Beard” Harden (James Harden) in the 2017-2018 season.
Whether it’s the league’s MVP list, the results of the opinion surveys of hundreds of experts consulted by ESPN, the opinions of various football critics, or even the odds of the betting market, the top three MVPs this season are Jokic. (Nikola Jokić), Giannis Antetokounmpo (Giannis Antetokounmpo), Joel Embiid (Joel Embiid), the three major players in the league are in front (what regarding the small ball era?).
Compared with “Brother Antetokounmpo” and “Joker” who have already won MVPs, Embiid’s determination to compete for MVP is stronger, but from the current situation, I am afraid it is not easy to do so. After all, this year’s competitors are too many. strong.
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(1) As far as the team’s regular season record is concerned:
|
win |
defeat |
ranking |
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|
buck |
51 |
31 |
East District No. 3 |
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76ers |
51 |
31 |
4th in the East |
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bullion |
48 |
34 |
West End 6th |
Although the gold nugget ranks behind, it is actually not too far behind, and since Westbrook won the MVP with a very low winning rate of 47 wins and 35 losses in the 2016-2017 season, it is an unwritten rule that the MVP must lead his team to at least 50 wins. It doesn’t seem to be that important anymore.
In fact, the early regular season MVP is very easy to choose, and there is no controversy. It is the ace of the team with the first record in the league. However, the way of voting has been changed once more and once more. Now it is composed of 100 media people and NBA official website fans (1 vote) Common vote.
So when the team’s record is good (last year Jazz, this year’s Suns…), it can be said that the individual performance is not outstanding; when the individual performance is hot (Last year’s Doncic), it can be said that the team’s record is not leading enough. Since it is an artificial vote, it is basically difficult to have a fixed standard.
