Joel Embiid has won the 2022-23 NBA MVP award, the league announced on Tuesday. Embiid, who received 73 of a possible 100 first-place votes, led the Philadelphia 76ers to the No. 3 seed in the Eastern Conference, averaged a league-best 33.1 points per game to go along with 11.7 rebounds and 4.2 assists per game while anchoring the NBA’s No. 8 ranked regular-season defense. He is currently attempting to win his first championship, which would be Philadelphia’s first since winning it all in 1983.
Embiid has notably finished as the runner-up in voting in each of the past two seasons. In both races, he lost out to Denver Nuggets center Nikola Jokic. That created something of a rivalry between the two, as Embiid seemingly took a few shots at Jokic as this season progressed.