I like Joel Embiid.
I think he’s a good-to-great basketball player, and a good person.
I should have no reason to hate on him whatsoever.
To call him out for talking like a loser.
To call out all the losers who voted for him for MVP this season.
All of the above.
Me and James [Harden], we just cant win alone.
Thats why basketball is played 5-on-5.
Laugh out fucking loud.
How they’re bitches.
But man oh fucking dan.
Don’t make it so hard to want to like you.
Thenwe got lectured by you for not thinking big time players care about winning MVPs.
Thenwe listened to you claim whoever didn’t vote for you this season “must hate you”.
Again, really hard not to like the guy.
At least it shouldn’t be.)
I use that gif of Jimmy Butler because you know who’s a real MVP Joel?
A guy who wills his team to victory when it matters.
Who puts up gaudy numbers not in the regular season, but in playoff games.
In close-out playoff games.
That’s straight-up loser talk by Embiid.
But the sad thing is I don’t think it’s Embiid’s own thoughts there.
I think its the army of “yes-men” losers he surrounds himself with now in Philly.
Hell, no teams attempted to hit it big in the draft and with free-agents more arguably than Philadelphia.
They’re just the absolute fucking worst at it.
(Don’t ever forget when Philly TRADED UP with the Celtics to draft Markelle Fultz over Jayson Tatum.
Or let Jimmy Butler walk so you can resign Tobias Harris instead.
Or the Ben Simmons disaster.
Remember it all.)
Again, point for Embiid.
Maybe it’s just a generational thing after all?
I don’t know, but that mentality fucking sucks.
The writers who proudly voted this guy as MVP should be embarrassed also.
I realize the NBA MVP award has turned into a title based on stats.
Which is totally fine.
Just change the name of the trophy.
Rename it after a player who cared more about winning an individual trophy than going deep in the playoffs.
A player who openly campaigns for the award like a politician.
Don’t name it the MVP anymore because it makes no sense in the literal sense.
Most valuable player goes to a guy who is as close to invaluable to his team as it gets.
A guy who can go somewhere and turn an entire team around.
And who if was taken off his roster, that team would equally spiral without them.
Not this underperforming selfishness.
As the wise man John Mason once said,
Winners set goals to win championships.
- Ben Simmons is such a great villain
