The award to NBA MVP has gone completely global in recent seasons. Joel Embiid, who decided to play with the United States National Team in the Paris Games and renounced France – he became interested – and Cameroon – his origins -, broke symbolically, but continued with the international players as the best players in the season after the awards to Nikola Jokic and Giannis Antetokounmpo.
Embiid, MVP.
Given this, the American press, which heads portals such as ‘ESPN’, being aware of this, draws a map of the favorites based on the votes of the last year. The only American is Jayson Tatum (Boston Celtics), with Joel Embiid (Philadelphia 76ers), Nikola Jokic (Denver Nuggets) and Giannis Antetokounmpo (Milwaukee Bucks) as international candidates.
‘ESPN’ draws lines to indicate a middle point… and it is in Valladolid! The Spanish city would be the point from which the best players would be born, coming the lines from Missouri for Tatum, Sombor for Jokic, Athens for Antetokounmpo and Yaoundé for Embiid.
The season will determine who is the favorite, with another international stronghold in the figure of Luka Doncic. Although the Slovenian has no qualms in saying that he prefers to win a title. “I want to win rings,” he explained in pre-season. Among Americans, It will depend on the level of Stephen Curry, the three ‘tenors’ of the Phoenix Suns with Kevin Durant, Bradley Beal and Devin Booker or figures of the stature of Irving, Harden…
In the history of the NBA there are only five international MVPs. The two of Steve Nash, Jokic, Antetokounmpo and that of Joel Embiid – who will now play as an American – and that of Dirk Nowitzki. The change has arrived… and it has a central point in Valladolid.
2023-10-22 11:16:41
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