There is no shortage of people who think Philadelphia 76ers big man Joel Embiid should have won the NBA’s MVP award over Nikola Jokic. So the outcry after his All-NBA Second Team selection was more than expected.
The league’s ancient position-based voting still only allows for one center per team, so Jokic’s first team selection relegated Embiid to the second team. That an MVP finalist, the runner-up even, isn’t one of the five players on a team used as an indicator of the best in a season is as silly as people say it is. However, it isn’t exactly a new issue, and it hasn’t been the snub people make it out to be.
So based on the math here, it appears Embiid got 12 first-team votes at center, plus an additional 45 as a forward, unless I'm missing something. So there was definitely an attempt to get him on First Team. So, he got more points than Tatum (last forward in) but less as a forward pic.twitter.com/Afzlre6jd8
— Kyle Neubeck (@KyleNeubeck) May 25, 2022
