MVP Race Shakeup

Transcript

00:00 One of the things that has happened recently in the NBA is Joel Embiid suffering an injury,

00:06 gonna miss some time, which puts his MVP campaign at risk.

00:11 So look at the MVP contenders now, and he kind of moves down the list.

00:15 Who is on your list?

00:16 It's really sad about him because if you read the stories about him, he had pain in his

00:21 knee already, and he was fighting the stigma of he's always injured.

00:27 And he got injured more because he was playing.

00:29 That's just, it almost breaks your heart because the guy knew that that reputation was out

00:34 there and wanted to get rid of it and wind up maybe costing his team, definitely, maybe

00:38 him the MVP in doing so.

00:40 We look at the other contenders.

00:44 We watch Luka Doncic a lot, and every night he dominates the game in slow motion.

00:49 He had the best 73-point performance recently.

00:55 He had the best week by an NBA player since Will Chamberlain.

00:58 Anytime you're compared to Will in the same sentence, you're like, "That dude's MVP."

01:04 But not the best week, not the best game, not the best highlights.

01:07 This just blows my mind.

01:08 Nikola Jokic of the Nuggets, reigning MVP.

01:12 Sorry, Embiid won it last year.

01:15 Two-time MVP.

01:16 For the entire month of January, this is not a blip, for a whole month, he shot 67%.

01:22 He made two-thirds of his shots.

01:24 If you watch the Nuggets, he takes three-pointers.

01:27 He takes jumpers.

01:28 He takes weird floaters and leaners.

01:31 He's not just dunking.

01:32 Two-thirds for an entire month.

01:35 The team's still the best in the West.

01:36 He's still the best player.

01:38 He's the leading candidate, especially with the sadness of Embiid probably not being around.

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