![]() New Post Game Thread LeBron James digs deep with 30/9/9 in 43 minutes as the Lakers dethrone the Warriors 4-2 and advance to the Conference Finals Top Team Subreddit Postsġ How this man is the only person in the NBA to have job security is beyond meģ this was mad disrespectful to the og LeBron picĤ Monty Williams - 2x coach of the year just became available for hire. All salary information via Spotrac or RealGM. Unless otherwise noted, all stats via NBA.com, PBPStats, Cleaning the Glass or Basketball Reference. I thought the league is supposed to protect us. Now, the Sixers can only hope he's able to heal up quickly enough to rejoin them for their second-round series against the Celtics. Nikola Jokic on the incident with the Suns owner: 'He told me I was elbowing the fan, but the fan put his hands on me first. There are only certain guys that get the opportunity to have their name on it. That means a lot being the MVP of the league. ![]() "For the guys that keep saying, ‘it’s whatever, I don’t care about winning it, doesn’t matter.’ But it’s all bulls-," Embiid said. The Denver Nuggets have a 2-0 lead in their NBA Playoffs series against the Phoenix Suns and Nikola Jokic is a big reason why. ![]() Spears in late March how much winning the award would mean to him. In an MVP race this close-any of Embiid, Jokic or Antetokounmpo would have been a worthy winner-Embiid's emphatic closing statement likely swung some votes his way.Īfter publicly campaigning for himself in the MVP race for the past few seasons, Embiid took a different approach this year. That left Embiid as the clear front-runner at the end of the season, particularly after a late-season win over the Celtics in which he had 52 points on 20-of-25 shooting to go with 13 rebounds, six assists and two blocks. However, blowout losses to Jokic's Nuggets and the Boston Celtics late in the regular season sent his odds tumbling as well. The Bucks finished with an NBA-high 58 wins during the regular season, and Antetokounmpo averaged a career-high 31.1 points on 55.3 percent shooting, 11.8 rebounds and 5.7 assists in only 32.1 minutes per game. However, both Embiid and James Harden missed the latter loss at the end of a long road trip, and the Nuggets went 2-5 over the final seven games of the regular season with Jokic sidelined for all but two of them.Īs Jokic's betting-market MVP odds began falling, Antetokounmpo briefly emerged as a possible alternate choice to him or Embiid. The Nuggets pulled out of that tailspin with four straight wins, including one each over the Bucks and the Sixers. Nuggets center NBA MVP Nikola Joki was assessed a technical foul for making contact with Phoenix Suns owner Mat Ishbia during the second quarter of Game 4 of the Western Conference semifinals. That is the highest share of a team’s made shots in a playoff game by any player in Nuggets franchise history. Meanwhile, Jokic's Nuggets dropped four straight games and five of six over that span, including losses to a pair of play-in tournament teams (the Chicago Bulls and Toronto Raptors) and the bottom-feeding San Antonio Spurs. Nikola Jokic accounted for 17 of the Nuggets’ 36 made shots tonight (47.2). The Sixers rattled off eight straight wins during Embiid's surge, beginning with a come-from-behind road victory over Antetokounmpo's Bucks. He also tied LeBron James' all-time NBA record with seven straight games of 30-plus points on 55-plus percent shooting. The Sixers exited the All-Star break with the toughest remaining schedule in the NBA, but Embiid kept them afloat through that stretch with a franchise-record 10 straight 30-plus-point performances. However, the Nuggets' late-season skid combined with an electric month of March from Embiid helped flip the final results. Jokic appeared to be on cruise control for the award at the All-Star break, when he received 77 of the 100 first-place votes in a straw poll from ESPN's Tim Bontemps.
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