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  • Who is the M V P.

  • Is it LeBron James L.

  • A.

  • Is it the F or mentioned Joel Embiid, Philly?

  • Or What's up?

  • New York?

  • Is it k d?

  • When they get to KD last?

  • Let me start by saying the M V P in the regular season in basketball is a ridiculous award.

  • It's a ridiculous award.

  • There are 30 teams in the MBA.

  • 16.

  • Make the postseason now.

  • I didn't major in math, but according to my calculations, that is over 50% of the league makes the postseason.

  • There is no such thing in no time.

  • Replace where an M V.

  • P ever comes from a non playoff team.

  • Now there is a finals M v P.

  • I hear some people thinking, sitting in your car.

  • Listen, smarty pants on.

  • What about the finals?

  • M v P Shut up, nerd.

  • That's ridiculous.

  • It's a ridiculous point.

  • Do you understand?

  • There's Ah, whole playoffs between the Finals and the regular season?

  • I'm not saying the MVPs to come from the championship winning team every year, although you'd be surprised how often it should.

  • Maybe you wouldn't be surprised.

  • I'm saying that you're ignoring the bulk of the playoffs.

  • Three Onley riel Important season in the n B A and it is a basically a full seasons very long postseason.

  • Of course, you should wait till the end to hand it out.

  • If you did, almost every year LeBron James would get because he's the best player in basketball.

  • I know now that he is still better than everyone else, right?

  • Every couple years, someone pops up their head.

  • K D Steph Curry CO y and then LeBron reminds everyone I'm still the best.

  • He's defended that title three times against those three guys.

  • In my opinion, those are the three guys like, Wait, Is that guy better than LeBron?

  • No.

  • No, he's not.

  • Yeah, honest to No, no, he's not.

  • Okay, So if the M V P goes to the best player in basketball, it's LeBron James.

  • If you do it the way you ought to, which is wait till the end of the postseason, it's LeBron James.

  • But that's not how it's done.

  • It's a regular season award, right?

  • So if the question is who is the frontrunner at this moment for M V p?

  • The answer is Joel Embiid.

  • Look, I know LeBron James dropped 46 21 in the fourth quarter in the second half against UM Cleveland.

  • Highly motivated.

  • His first returned to Ohio in a couple of years, and I know LeBron's played 18 games.

  • Joel and Beads only played 14.

  • However, they both have the best record in their respective conferences.

  • So Joel Embiid missing games has not led to his team not being the number one seed in his conference.

  • But you know what it has done.

  • It showed you what that team is without M B, and he's not.

  • Ben Simmons is excellent.

  • They got a good team.

  • He ain't playing with a D.

  • He ain't playing with a guy.

  • Which John Ireland, the voice of the Lakers, ESPN L.

  • A.

  • You know what I'm talking about said on this show yesterday.

  • And he's right, and Haiti could guard five positions.

  • I mentioned that man could practically guard the pick and roll by himself.

  • His defense is ridiculous, and then offensively, he could bring the ball up.

  • If he has to, he could shoot from range.

  • What can't a D do?

  • He's gonna go down in history, probably given especially the team he's on now is challenging.

  • Tim Duncan as the greatest power forward of all time.

  • That's who LeBron's playing with them be.

  • They got a guy like that on his team.

  • He's got a nice team, but no one like that.

  • And without Embiid, the Sixers, we'll play a team.

  • So, like the Pistons, like a bad team, right?

  • A team that they beat with him.

  • They'll get blown out without him.

  • They just did.

  • They just got blown out without him.

  • And then when you look so like, his value to his team is obvious.

  • His defense just eyeballing it.

  • I'd say M B has been the best defender in the game this year so far.

  • And offensively, you know the reason I go to P E.

  • R.

  • It's not because it's a perfect Stet, but when people talk about well, yes, this many points in this many rebounds, this many assistant looking.

  • His free throw percentage of a PR sort of takes all that into account.

  • What's his scoring efficiency?

  • His offensive efficiency?

  • Number one in the league way above LeBron is Embiid, and then defensively, he's certainly one of the best, if not the best.

  • So what else is there?

  • Offensive defense and in terms of value to his team.

  • They can't beat anybody.

  • They get blown out by everybody without em.

  • Beat bad teams blow him out without MBT, LeBron James is the best player in basketball.

  • He proved it again, most recently in this last playoff run.

  • But if we're just talking about the way people vote on M V.

  • P right now, it's Embiid.

  • Now let me let me say this also.

  • Kevin Durant's right there, and I would actually put him ahead of LeBron in that race.

  • Right now, we're just talking about a regular season race last in the last week or so.

  • If you looked what Embiid and Durant are doing, it's insane.

  • And by the way, the thing about Cady K D.

  • Is a player who, no matter what the construction of the team in any era, que de would make any team ever assembled better.

  • He doesn't need the ball, but he can kill you with it.

  • He can play defense, really, at an elite level on multiple positions.

  • He's become an excellent passer.

  • He could score from all three levels at one of the most elite rates of all time, and he's good for team chemistry.

  • In fact, as long as some there's not a hardheaded teammate who makes it hard, you know unnecessarily K d.

  • Basically, what does he need?

  • He's one of the best ever.

  • Without the ball.

  • You don't need to run, please, For the guy, that's what it is right now.

  • It's Embiid, KD and LeBron.

  • And if I had to give out in M v P at this moment, regular season M v p, that would be my order.

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Who is the M V P.

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