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Joel Embiid Wins 2022/23 NBA MVP And A Possible Return In Game 2

It has been officially announced that the winner of the 2022/23 NBA MVP award is Joel Embiid, and congratulations to him for finally achieving this long sought after career milestone.

Having averaged 33.1 points, 10.2 rebounds and 4.2 rebounds in the highest scoring campaign by any center since Shaquile O’neal and to be fair Joel Embiid may have won MVP during a season which there were 3 really strong candidates that could have won it too, and I’d consider that the most competetive NBA MVP race in over a decade.

In addition to his winning the MVP award, the rumour mill is spinning with the news that Joel may indeed return to play tonight against the Boston Celtics in game 2 of the series.

And that could spell trouble for Boston.

Look, I need you to understand that the Sixers were massive underdogs going in to the 2nd round against the Celtics and that hasn’t really changed.

But we took some of the wind out of their sails in game 1, and with our best player returning to on-court action, a win in game 2 or game 3, will actually swing the series massively.

The Boston Celtics aren’t right.

They are not as motivated as they were this time last year, they are nowhere near the kind of defensive intensity and willingness to go the extra mile for effort plays. They are a team with good to great individual defensive players, but they also fall back into trying to be a 3-point shooting team, and that’s a separate issue to the one surrounding the lack of balance in the shooting volumes of Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum.

I’m not saying that we’re about to win the series, but game 2 is actually a must-win for the Boston Celtics, because I don’t care how big of a favorite your are, you cannot go down 2-0 to any team in a playoff series.

[Charania] After winning MVP last night, during a quick 76ers celebration, Joel Embiid turned to the team and said: “I’m back.” Embiid is indeed on track to return tonight in Game 2 vs. Celtics barring setbacks, sources tell @TheAthletic @Stadium.

Previewing the 76ers key games for the 2022-23 NBA season

The new NBA season is finally upon us! After an off-season that felt like an eternity, our 76ers look ready to begin their 2022-23 campaign and figures to be a serious contender to win the NBA championship. They won’t be without competition, however, as teams from across the league made various additions and changes to bolster their squads. So, what better way to get hyped over the new NBA season and preview some of the other contenders than a breakdown of the key games in the 76ers schedule! From division rivalries to player rivalries, these are the games that must be circled on your calendar.

Opening Night, Boston Celtics

The 76ers will get the honour of opening up the new season in a bout against long time rivals, the Boston Celtics. The 76ers and Celtics are familiar foes, going to battle in high stakes games numerous times over their existence. More recently the Celtics have gotten the better of Philly in the playoffs, knocking them out in 2018, and then again in 2020. This Celtic’s team is fresh off an NBA finals appearance and will be looking for redemption after falling to the NBA champion Golden State Warriors in 6 games. This will also be the opportunity to see some new Sixers debut, with PJ Tucker expected to play a starting role and the combination of De’Anthony Melton, Montrezl Harrell and Danuel House rounding out the second unit.

October 27th, Toronto Raptors

The 76ers will go head to head with the Toronto Raptors, who they eliminated in the playoffs in 6 games last season. From Joel Embiid’s buzzer-beating game winning 3 to the various injuries that fans believed to be intentionally inflicted, the series only furthered the growing rivalry and distaste between the two teams. The Raptors will certainly be eager to get some get-back and the Sixers will be looking to demonstrate their superiority.

November 23, Brooklyn Nets

Last season the 76ers acquired James Harden from the Brooklyn Nets for Ben Simmons. The teams only matched up once since that trade and Simmons was ruled out with a back injury. However, this will be the first time these teams match up this season and, barring injury, the first time Ben Simmons will play in the Wells Fargo Centre since the trade. With emotions set to run high and both teams, who are division rivals, eager to earn bragging rights, this matchup seems destined to be a thriller.

December 17, Golden State Warriors

This is probably the case for every team, but getting a crack at the defending champions warrants a big red circle on the calendar. As a team looking to win a championship it’s always a good opportunity to see how you stack up against a reigning champion. With a superstar in Steph Curry and emerging star in Jordan Poole, the 76ers will certainly have their hands full in this matchup.

December 25, New York Knicks

Is there a better place to be playing Christmas Day basketball than at the iconic Madison Square Garden in New York City? (Not including home at the Wells Fargo Centre of course). After missing out on a Christmas Day game last season the 76ers will be looking be looking to get into the Christmas spirit by gifting their fans a W heading into the New Year. If last years performance in New York was any indication, we could be in for some big time games from the trio of Embiid, Harden and Maxey.

January 29, Denver Nuggets

No, the Nuggets are not a division rival. They aren’t even a conference rival. The interest in this matchup stems from the battle between back-to-back MVP, Nikola Jokic, and back-to-back MVP runner up, Joel Embiid. It’s not just about missing out on the MVP award. Very rarely does the MVP runner up not make 1st team All-NBA, yet it’s happened consecutively for Embiid. Look for Joel in particular to assert dominance over Jokic to prove to the NBA world that he is indeed the best Center on the planet.

February 28, Miami Heat

Since suffering elimination at the hands of the Miami Heat in last season’s playoffs, the Sixers have undoubtedly been patiently waiting to get revenge. Not only that, PJ Tucker will face the team he was pried away from last season for the first time. Will Tucker really be the difference maker that nets Philly a win?

Team USA considering Embiid

Team USA considering Embiid

While he recently obtained French citizenship, Joel Embiid has also taken steps to obtain American citizenship. A decision that could open the doors to Team USA, according to journalist Marc Stein. What national jersey will Joel Embiid end up wearing? Born in Yaoundé, the colossus of the Philadelphia 76ers has Cameroonian nationality, but the last few months have changed the situation. Indeed,…

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Possibly dismissed by the arrival of Embiid, a Blue reacts cash!

Possibly dismissed by the arrival of Embiid, a Blue reacts cash!

If Joel Embiid were indeed to be called up to the France team, then several players would inevitably find themselves pushed out. One of them has just taken a position on the subject, at the microphone of RMC. Hard to be more honest. We have known it now for several days: after having started administrative procedures during the month of May, Joel Embiid officially became a French citizen. The…

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Possibly dismissed by the arrival of Embiid, a Blue reacts cash!

Possibly dismissed by the arrival of Embiid, a Blue reacts cash!

If Joel Embiid were indeed to be called up to the France team, then several players would inevitably find themselves pushed out. One of them has just taken a position on the subject, at the microphone of RMC. Hard to be more honest. We have known it now for several days: after having started administrative procedures during the month of May, Joel Embiid officially became a French citizen. The…

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Joel Embiid very classy towards Nikola Jokic: "He deserves the MVP"

Joel Embiid very classy towards Nikola Jokic: “He deserves the MVP”

For the second year in a row, Joel Embiid moved on to a Serbian to win MVP of the season. Nikola Jokic has indeed made the back-to-back this year in front of a Jojo once again number 2. A necessarily disappointing outcome for Embiid but not surprising if we are to believe the words of the Philly star, who did not not forget to pay homage to the Joker. Before the start of Game 5 between the Heat…

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Joel Embiid, the return of the masked avenger

Joel Embiid, the return of the masked avenger

Throughout the day on Friday, the clues to a return of Joel Embiid have multiplied. And the pivot of the Sixers was therefore indeed present in the warm-up then in the in-between, despite a torn ligament in the hand, but also now a fracture in the forehead! No game time limit at home, and he finished with 18 points on 5 of 12 on shots and 11 rebounds in 36 minutes in the Sixers’ wide victory. “As…

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What is going on with fultz bruh

Your guess is as good as mine. I’m at a point now where I’m already contemplating life without Fultz as a primary piece of the puzzle and that’s okay. I think a lot of people try to clown the Sixers for moving up to get the guy and I get where they’re coming from but hindsight is 20/20. It’s easy to say now that Fultz is prolly a bust and even if he does develop it’s prolly not with the Philadelphia 76ers. That’s okay. The whole point of tanking during the Trust The Process years was to stockpile high draft picks to mitigate any sort issues that might lie down the road.

Think about this, here are some people that was high draft picks under ‘Trust The Process’ tank years. Michael Carter Williams, Jahlil Okafor. These were players who people genuinely thought was going to stick around with us for the long haul. Think about that, where are they know? The whole point was to build up high draft picks with high ceilings and figure out how well they will transition from College/Overseas to the NBA.

Markelle Fultz might jus become a casualty of that. It’s going to hurt if it does happen, but that’s sports. Also I don’t like the notion that we should have gone with someone else over Fultz. At the present time Fultz was indeed the best option to run with based on our personnel. 

Ideally we could have ran out

Simmons and Fultz in the backcourt, Covington, Dario and Embiid in the front court. On paper if they all lived up to their billing that’s a scary ass lineup right there.

You’re Going To See A Different Side Of Me If Joel Embiid Wins MVP

January 30th

I’ve taken it easy. If I was acting the way every one of my impulses was telling me to act, I’d be on the internet looking a fool, trolling every NBA fan page I can find but I’ve held myself back like Tony Soprano!!!!! 

There was a time people legitimately thought this dude was Greg Oden. There was a time people legit thought this man was never going to play an actual NBA game. The 76ers were ridiculed for drafting this man and post season failures against Boston and Toronto, 3 years in a row, gave life to their criticisms. Sixer fans have had to hear it all. From former NBA legends and veterans to TV analysts, everyone took a shot. No one gave Embiid the benefit of the doubt and acknowledged the lack of floor spacing. Everyone expected Hakeem Olajuwon-level domination without ever looking at how Hakeem’s Houston teams were built. He was surrounded by shooters. So when the Sixers brought in new General Manager Darryl Morey, a man intimately familiar with building jump shooting teams, his first order of business was to add jump shooters.

Fast forward to now, let’s bust a count. Embiid is currently averaging 27.7 points, 11 rebounds, 2.8 assists, 1.4 blocks and 54.6% shooting from the field. The intent to dominate is clear and evident. Embiid backed this up again with 37 points, 11 rebounds and 3 assists against the Minnesota Timberwolves this past Friday night. He’s on an absolute tear but that doesn’t mean that all are appreciating the greatness.

By now you know how this goes. This is the NBA and at the cost of common sense, reasoning and even good journalism, the rules of NBA media will be upheld. Which means someone, who is paid to know better, is going to talk nonsense.

Step up to the plate Fox Sports’ Chris Broussard, who, the morning after the Sixers beat the Lakers in glorious fashion, went on to First Things First with Nick Wright and started talking all kinds of nonsense about how Embiid is “underutilized”. The criticisms that Broussard levelled at Embiid were the exact things he has worked on. Does Broussard not see Embiid posting people up? I guess we’re going to ignore Embiid’s career high in usage percentage? I don’t even understand what the media does anymore. The beat reporters, I have no issue with because they don’t have the liberty to select narratives. Some of these TV analysts don’t watch the games and they are starting to admit this more and more. This isn’t even the first time Broussard has been caught slipping but I’m off that.

 Here’s a nice 17 minute video of Joel Embiid post moves for the non believers. And here’s another one, for those that insist on posting up being a brute force affair and these are Embiid’s highlights against the Lakers. Embiid went to the free-throw line 13 times in that game so make of that what you will. 

Back to Embiid though, this man is on an absolute dominant run and very well could be the first center since Tim Duncan (if you count him as a center) or Shaquile O’neal, to win MVP. Without doubt the most dominant big man since either of those guys retired. 

However the man that Embiid has truly patterned his game after is Hakeem “The Dream” Olajuwon.  During the post game interview of the Timberwolves game on Friday night, Embiid actually goes in to detail regarding his approach to drawing fouls. Here’s the 10 minute clip of the presser and he starts talking about getting fouled in the last 3 minutes or so. Indeed you’re seeing that reflected in his numbers as well where he’s averaging a career high in free throw attempts at 10.1 per game. That’s a telling stat when we’re talking about low post scorers. For example, all of Hakeem Olajuwon’s highest scoring seasons came when he was able to get fouled at least 7 times per game. It’s fun hearing Joel talk this way and those Olajuwon comparisons are especially eerie when you hear this. He mentions making defenders “pick their poison” and that’s how you know he’s reaching the highest levels of sophistication when it comes to his post game. 

Check out this here piece of internet gold. It’s a clip of Hakeem Olajuwon demonstrating post moves, followed by clips of him executing the same moves during games throughout his career. Watch how he always understands where his defender is and what his defender is taking away based on his body positioning. He is always making the defender “pick his poison” and his technique is so great, so perfect, that he can find and take the shot that his man cannot possibly guard at the exact instant his man is most susceptible to that shot. If he drives to the basket and his man is diligent and is able to contest near the rim, he’ll stop, fake, spin and find ample room to get a jumping hook finish. Books should be written about Hakeem’s post-scoring technique in the same way books were written about Coach John Wooden. No jokes. 

So check out these Joel Embiid December highlights/compilation. In literally the opening clip, Embiid is guarded by Orlando Magic center, Nikola Vucevic. Embiid intitiates, as all good centers do, by getting post position and once he gets the ball, he faces up Vucevic who gets in the golden chair position. Embiid takes one bounce to Vucevic’s outside, which is Vucevic’s left and Vuc does a good job of staying in front of Embiid and guarding the drive attempt but Embiid stops and spins to Vuceviç’s right and Embiid gets a dunk at the rim with his right hand. That’s the kind of tet-a-tet, pick your poison approach to low post scoring that effectively means there are no right answers for defenders and that makes a center un-guardable. 

A lot of this probably has to do with the era that we’re in but we’re not seeing the right level of appreciation for what this man is doing. When Steph Curry was on his run there was nothing but chatter about how great he is. Russell Wesbrook was praised to the high heavens for his triple-double MVP run. James Harden was elevated to superstar status for performing an entire season of the craftiest, grimiest, low-down, foul drawing tactics and even he had a bunch of media carrying his water. What those guys have in common is that their styles of play are more eye catching and even in Harden’s case people like watching him shoot. I have to wonder whether the voting media will allow aesthetics to sway their decision because it almost happened to Giannis Antetokounmpo. What I want to know is where is the pro-Joel media and why aren’t we hearing more from them? ESPN’s Max Kellerman is appearing to fight the just fight. So for once, the city of Philly is actually gonna have to ride with him and forget about the Carson Wentz nonsense. Other than that, Embiid’s competition in the MVP race, LeBron James and Kevin Durant, will have far better representation in the television media. Embiid leads the race at the moment but we do not have as much time left as we would in a normal, non-covid season. It’ll be interesting to see how it goes but I’m backing my guy on this. 

Here’s a cool Joel Embiid-Hakeem Olajuwon Video compilation and here’s the coolest video complilation of Joel Embiid scoring.

76ers’ Ben Simmons considering switching his dominant shooting hand, report says

Ben Simmons is thinking about making some serious changes to his offensive game after a woeful shooting performance during the 2021 NBA playoffs.

And one of those changes could be switching his dominant shooting hand.

As ESPN’s Brian Windhorst explained on SportsCenter Monday, Simmons, who has shot lefthanded during his career will examine switching to a righthanded shot during the offseason. And he’ll be skipping the Olympics to consider that change.

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“One of the things I’ve been told is on the table — hasn’t been decided but is on the table — is examining whether he changes his dominant shooting hand from left to right,” Windhorst said. “Now, that is a radical thing to do. He is ambidextrous. He does do some things in his life righthanded.

“It isn’t insane. There are some statistical measures out there that show he’s not bad shooting with his right hand, but that’s obviously a big change and would take some period of time to implement. But Ben Simmons is going to get serious about trying to address this in his months off coming up.”

Indeed, there are some stats that show Simmons might prefer shooting with his right hand. As Kevin O’Connor of The Ringer outlined, Simmons has taken 70 percent of his career shots righthanded and primarily used his right hand during the 2021 postseason.

Ben Simmons took 95 shots in the playoffs. He tried…

67 shots using his right hand 19 shots using both hands 9 shots using his left hand

In his career, over 70% of his shots are righty.

Simmons in 2016: “I think I was supposed to be right-handed.” https://t.co/6Ox3L37jdY

— Kevin O’Connor (@KevinOConnorNBA) June 21, 2021

So, it would seem that it’s natural for Simmons to use the right hand when he has the option. Yet he has largely shot with his left hand from distance and from the line during his career.

But now, it looks like he wants to change that.

It may be a tall task, but it has been done before. Tristan Thompson shot 58.6 percent from the free-throw line during his first two seasons as a lefty. He switched shooting hands ahead of the 2013 season and in the year after his change, he shot 69.3 percent from the line as a righty.

Simmons would certainly take that kind of improvement upon his 61.3 free-throw percentage.

Whether Simmons decides to change his dominant hand or not, Sixers coach Doc Rivers is confident that the 6-10 Australian will make the strides needed to become a better offensive performer this offseason.

“I believe, without going into detail with what we’re doing, I believe we know what the right work is, and the right type of work, and the right way to do it,” Rivers said of improving Simmons’ shooting, per ESPN’s Tim Bontemps.

“You can do the work all the time. But if it’s not done in the right way and the right type of work, you may not improve. After being here for a year, I really do believe we’ve identified what and how, and now we have to do the do part. We have to work to do it. It’s not going to be an easy job. But it’s definitely a job that Ben can do.”

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