eyeatoma wrote:FinnTheHuman wrote:Mavrelous wrote:Embiid deseved the MVP last year, it's not an arithmetic equation and there can be more than one answer, Embiid, Jokuc and Giannis all had good case and you couldn't go wrong with any of them.
The problem was the ugliness with which many media members tried to force Jokic out of the race invoking race, but that's on the mefia not on Joel.
Embiid fueled the fire by acting dumb in these MVP campaign interviews by claiming he was the only one deserving and that he's being 'slighted' for some reason, that advanced stats are bs etc. It played into the hands of the media guys who invoked racial arguments. So it is on Joel too.
Heaven forbid he actually played well.
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It was intellectually dishonest. I'm not saying he didn't have a strong argument or that he wasn't amazing, but it's intellectually dishonest to say that you just don't understand how you're not in the driver's seat to win it, in the situation where Jokic was also playing out of his mind, and had around as much of an argument for the trophy as Embiid did. And he did that interview after Perk shouted "racism!".
He gave additional room to those who don't follow the discussion about the objective arguments for MVP but are Philly fans, or Embiid fan, and are leaning towards victim mentality and racism to say "yea, even Joel might be implying racism here, so it must be racism." Embiid had to deny Perk's racial argument in that same interview at least, to clear up that that's not what he was implying.
And you're again doing your thing with shifting to other talking points, ignoring the core argument I'm making, that what Embiid did with that interview was immature and wrong, and that he's showed close-mindedness and egocentric behaviour that was damaging on many occasions, in the post-series press conferences multiple times when Philly lost, in interviews regarding the MVP race etc.
This is also a polar opposite to Jokic's behaviour, who was the 1st to defend Embiid's last year's MVP win when the media tried to bait him into saying otherwise, after he won the championship. And it's why Embiid now feels comfortable to praise Jokic e.g. that he watches every game Jokic is playing, because it seems he finally realized how stupid he looks trying to promote himself as the better C, when Jokic is just gushing over everybody's game but his own in his interviews, saying stuff like the Nuggets are Murray's team etc, refusing to ever discuss where he sees himself in any ranking.
