Daily News | Joel Embiid a finalist for NBA Most Valuable Player award
Joel Embiid is one of three finalists for the NBA’s Most Valuable Player award, the league announced Sunday night.
Embiid, who finished second in voting in 2020-21, led the league in scoring with 30.6 points per game while also averaging 11.7 rebounds, a career-best 4.2 assists and 1.5 blocks per game. He was the first center to top the NBA in points per game since Shaquille O’Neal in 2000, and the first at that position to average more than 30 points per game in a season since Moses Malone in 1981-82.
Jokic averaged 27.1 points, 13.8 rebounds and 7.9 assists per game for a Nuggets team that finished with 48 wins while playing without its second- and third-best players, Jamal Murray and Michael Porter Jr., for the vast majority of the season. Jokic also became the first player in NBA history to total 2,000 points, 1,000 rebounds and 500 assists in a single season.
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