The Jokic Robbed MVP Narrative IS Nonsense

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I'm glad Embiid won it.

If you wanna talk robbery you can make the case for players like Jordan, LeBron, and to a lesser extent Kobe being robbed of MVP awards.
Which years were they robbed? Jordan was probably robbed that year Karl Malone won, but that was it.
 

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It's called regular season MVP, not playoffs MVP.
Funny thing is if we used the “Jokic was robbed” logic these Embiid haters are talking about based on Embiid flaming out in the playoffs, Jokic shouldn’t have won his two that he got:mjlol:


When Jokic won his tho “Its a regular season award!!!” :damn:
 

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"Robbed" might be the wrong term but I do think Jockic had the better season.

He don't care, why should I lol. If anything, you could easily frame it that voter fatigue bolsters his greatness. And Embiid not taking the ball and running with it just kinda puts more pressure on him.

Either way, respect to the bigs of this era, both are really special.
 

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the problem with the everyone gets an mvp logic beyond it being dumb is what do you do when someone wins 2 in a row again and in that 3rd season they are far and away the only guy who should be mvp, do you vote for someone else anyway? thats silly. you dont vote today based on being worried about someone in the present or future being too lazy or stupid to understand context or do research, or to protect the past.

Its not everyone gets an MVP...there are factors. One is individual greatness. Another is team success. Narrative is another. Have you won before is another. Considering whether or not a dude won before is is no sillier than rewarding a guy because his team is better.

And we cant act like last year was some mercy award. Embiid led the league in scoring avg the most points for a center in 40+ years, his team won more games (in large part because Jokic :manny:ed the stretch run of the RS), AND he hadnt won one. All of those things played a part.
 

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Embiid was the one who deserved the award while Jokic was the best player in basketball. I don’t even understand the point of this thread, we’ve seen that exact scenario play out dozens of times

It’s not a best player in the league award and never really has been explicitly that
 

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:picard: nikkas still mad?
 

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Funny thing is if we used the “Jokic was robbed” logic these Embiid haters are talking about based on Embiid flaming out in the playoffs, Jokic shouldn’t have won his two that he got:mjlol:


When Jokic won his tho “Its a regular season award!!!” :damn:
The first one he got, Giannis was still indubitably the best player in the world and I believe won the finals that same year while Jokic got bounced in the first round. But, Jokic had a narrative working for him

Narratives are 97% of what that award means
 

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Embiid probably the only MVP that makes his team worse
 
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