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Sports Illustrated
Sports Illustrated
By Howard Beck Joel Embiid, Nikola Jokić and the annual debate over the league’s top individual honor. The beauty of our annual fretting and frothing over MVP is that it’s an award with no specific definition, allowing for a broad and wondrous spectrum of perspectives, philosophies and choices, each of them valid in their own right. Nevertheless, I am sorry to inform you that all of your MVP takes are wrong. I don’t mean your actual choice is wrong. If you’re a Nikola Jokić advocate, great. His resume is robust. Joel Embiid? Eminently worthy. Giannis Antetokounmpo? Freakishly qualified. It’s n…