the NBA Announce the prize winner best player (Most Valuable Player) For the 2022/23 season, and for the fifth year in a row, the NBA’s highest award went to a foreigner. Cameroonian Joel EmbiidAxis Philadelphia Seventy SixersHe was awarded with honors.
embodiment, the 2.13-foot giant who has changed volleyball into basketball, heard the news in the hotel where the Sixers are centered ahead of the second point of the Eastern Conference series against the Boston Celtics. Huddled in a room with the rest of his teammates, the 29-year-old couldn’t hide his emotions and covered his face when he heard the award belonged to him.
“I don’t really know where to start, it’s been a long time. It’s been years of hard work, I’ve been through a lot. And I don’t just talk about basketball, I talk about life, my story, how I got here and what it cost me to be here,” They were the first words spoken by the MVP of the series T..
With an average of 31.1 points per game, the French-Cameroonian nationalized outperformed the Serbian in the final vote Nikola Jokic, who had just won the award in the last two consecutive seasons (2021 and 2022). The third was Greek Giannis Antikonmofrom the Milwaukee Bucks, who also won the MVP award twice, in 2019 and 2020.
Embiid became the second African player to be named the NBA’s Regular Season Player of the Year after the Nigerian Hakeem Olajuwon in 1994. After his appointment, Joe Joe He received the love of fellow Sixers and James Harden The last American to win the award in 2018 gave him a special gift. He gave him a silver Rolex watch engraved with the legend “23 MVP”, after his teammate’s jersey number.
Tonight, the 76ers, with their star presence, will seek to win the second point of the series against the visiting Boston Celtics and move a little closer to the Conference Final.
The last 10 NBA MVP award winners
2023: Joel Embiid (Cameroon / Philadelphia 76ers).
2022: Nikola Jokic (Serbia / Denver Nuggets).
2021: Nikola Jokic (Serbia / Denver Nuggets).
2020: Giannis Antetokounmpo (Greece / Milwaukee Bucks)
2019: Giannis Antetokounmpo (Greece / Milwaukee Bucks)
2018: James Harden (USA / Houston Rockets).
2017: Russell Westbrook (USA / Oklahoma City Thunder)
2016: Stephen Curry (USA / Golden State Warriors)
2015: Stephen Curry (USA / Golden State Warriors)
2014: Kevin Durant (USA / Oklahoma City Thunder)
The players who have won the MVP award the most
6: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (USA) (1971, 1972, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1980)
5: Bill Russell (USA) (1958, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1965) and Michael Jordan (USA) (1988, 1991, 1992, 1996, 1998).
4: Wilt Chamberlain (USA) (1960, 1966, 1967, 1968) and LeBron James (USA) (2009, 2010, 2012, 2013).
3: Moses Malone (USA) (1979, 1982, 1983), Larry Bird (USA) (1984, 1985, 1986) and Magic Johnson (USA) (1987, 1989, 1990).
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