{"id":434929,"date":"2023-05-06T03:11:42","date_gmt":"2023-05-06T07:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=434929"},"modified":"2023-05-06T03:11:42","modified_gmt":"2023-05-06T07:11:42","slug":"mvp-ceremony-inspires-tatum-to-cook-in-game-3","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/mvp-ceremony-inspires-tatum-to-cook-in-game-3\/","title":{"rendered":"MVP ceremony inspires Tatum to cook in Game 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joel Embiid received his MVP award before the match against Boston Celtics as Adam Sliver rewarded the Philadelphia 76ers star in front of exiled Philly fans.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8220;The environment was electric tonight.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jayson Tatum is up for the challenge of Playoff games on the road ?<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NBAPlayoffs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#NBAPlayoffs<\/a> presented by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/madebygoogle?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@madebygoogle<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rb2JOvI1Ee\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/rb2JOvI1Ee<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA (@NBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA\/status\/1654695109470965760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 6, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Jayson Tatum told after the clash that he watched the event ahead of Game 3 and saw on the TV how Joel lifted the trophy.<\/p>\n<p>The Celtics superstar was motivated by the whole thing and atmosphere and notched 27 points to secure the victory for Boston and a 2-1 lead in the East \u00bd final matchup.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It just got me really motivated to fight,&#8221; Jayson claimed, watching Joel get his MVP award. &#8220;You could sense the energy from the fans and the venue. I&#8217;m pleased for Joel. He gained it, he deserved it, but I was just aimed at attempting to secure the victory tonight.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Devin Booker has more 40-point playoff games than<\/p>\n<p>Charles Barkley<br \/>\nJayson Tatum<br \/>\nKawhi Leonard<br \/>\nLarry Bird<br \/>\nCarmelo Anthony<br \/>\nTracy McGrady<br \/>\nAlex English<br \/>\nKyrie Irving<br \/>\nPaul Pierce<br \/>\nReggie Miller<br \/>\nAnthony Davis<br \/>\nPaul George<\/p>\n<p>Leading this postseason in scoring. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/S167xdfIz4\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/S167xdfIz4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 StatMuse (@statmuse) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/statmuse\/status\/1654706403041325057?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 6, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joel Embiid received his MVP award before the match against Boston Celtics as Adam Sliver rewarded the Philadelphia 76ers star in front of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":431796,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16890,16942,17837],"news_category":[16706,14084],"gn_keywords":[18062,18064,1067],"acf":{"announce":"Jayson shared that the ceremony motivated him.","video":["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\/434929"}],"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=434929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/434929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434929"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=434929"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=434929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}