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Support for Joel Embiid’s MVP candidacy pours in from NBA players, media

The NBA regular season is winding down and that means conversations about the league MVP award are raging. This season, it’s widely expected that the MVP race is between three players, Nikola Jokic of the Denver Nuggets, Giannis Antetokounmpo of the Milwaukee Bucks and Joel Embiid of the Philadelphia 76ers.

For most of this season, betting odds and debates around the subject seemed to skew toward Jokic winning the award for a third time. However, the tide has somewhat turned in the past few weeks following a run of utterly ridiculous games for Embiid that have led to a number of Sixers’ victories.