After two gut-wrenching runner-up finishes, Joel Embiid finally broke through and won NBA MVP. With reports that he may be “on track” to play through his LCL sprain in Game 2 today, it was an extra special moment to hear Joel field some questions from reporters in Boston on the rare honor.
Since Julius Erving won MVP with the Sixers in 1981, there have only been 24 players to win this thing. Now Joel is one of them. Unreal.
Let’s see what Joel had to say.
(Some of these are presented in full because this is historic.