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There is no doubt who the brightest star in the NBA galaxy is these days.
Nikola Jokić is averaging a triple-double this postseason for the Denver Nuggets, who are fresh off a sweep of the Lakers and are theJokić won the league’s MVP award in 2021 and 2022, and some folks were wondering why he did not win it again this season — especially after Joel Embiid turned into a pumpkin in the playoffs.
Denver’s big man is not one of those Embiid critics, though. “People are just mean in saying that Embiid shouldn’t have won it,” Jokić said. “I think he should [have] won it. I think he was playing, if you watch it, extremely, extremely,Don’t forget that the 76ers center won a second straight scoring title by averaging 33.1 points this season and also averaged 10.2 rebounds and 1.7 blocks.
Most important: The MVP award is for the regular season, so pay no attention to that ugly finish to Embiid’s postseason. “I don’t want to say that playoffs doesn’t mean anything in that, but he was really amazing in 82 games or how many games he played,” said Jokić, who is very much in the running for another award: NBA Finals MVP.
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