{"id":433284,"date":"2023-04-15T01:27:59","date_gmt":"2023-04-15T05:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=433284"},"modified":"2023-04-15T00:38:45","modified_gmt":"2023-04-15T04:38:45","slug":"giannis-embiid-and-jokic-are-mvp-finalists","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/giannis-embiid-and-jokic-are-mvp-finalists\/","title":{"rendered":"Giannis, Embiid, and Jokic are MVP finalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Giannis Antetokounmpo, Joel Embiid, and the current and 2 times MVP Nikola Jokic are again the 3 concluding players selected for the award.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">NBA MVP finalists have been announced ?<\/p>\n<p>\u2b50\ufe0f Giannis Antetokounmpo<br \/>\n\u2b50\ufe0f Joel Embiid<br \/>\n\u2b50\ufe0f Nikola Jokic<\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s your pick? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FQnDBBqWtS\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/FQnDBBqWtS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BleacherReport\/status\/1647009172498571264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 14, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The vote for the Most Valuable Player in NBA and other finalists in other categories will be on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Last season the nominations for the NBA MVP were the same, and the Serbian won it; Embiid finished 2<sup>nd<\/sup> and Antetokounmpo 3<sup>rd<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>Jokic has a chance to win the award for a 3<sup>rd<\/sup> time in a row and be only the 4<sup>th<\/sup> player in the league&#8217;s history to do it after Larry Bird, Wilt Chamberlain, and Bill Russell.<\/p>\n<p>Nuggets finished in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> place in the West, and Nikola is only the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> player and 1<sup>st<\/sup> center to average a triple-double per game.<\/p>\n<p>Joel finished as the highest-scoring player for 2<sup>nd<\/sup> season in a row.<\/p>\n<p>Giannis helped Milwaukee Bucks to end the regular season with the best record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giannis Antetokounmpo, Joel Embiid, and the current and 2 times MVP Nikola Jokic are again the 3 concluding players selected for the award. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":433285,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16728,16841,17837,16737],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[17843,18479,17858,1067],"acf":{"announce":"The same players were the finalists last year too.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/433284"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/433284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":433286,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/433284\/revisions\/433286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433284"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=433284"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=433284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}