more like when he leads his hometown hornets to the first seed in the east next to Klay Knupple

Honestly that would be cool

I’d have no problem if players over the age of 36 were allowed to openly and shamelessly so steroids if they so choose. Like that’s their reward for making it that long in the league.

Logan?

He’s gonna have to go through Zion 😤

Birthright MVP

Yes he was. He became a citizen in 2022

https://www.nba.com/news/76ers-star-joel-embiid-now-us-citizen

I’m not sure I would count Embiid for the purpose of the stat, but its definitely worth noting that he came over from Cameroon and was brought through the US college system. So it’s not that players can’t become MVPs without being Euro league guys first lol.

SGA also if I recall played college basketball in America

And then he played for the US and won a gold medal.

If God controls everything, isn’t Embiid citizenship a God-given birthright as well?

He moved to the US when he first started playing basketball at 15 so his formative years developing his skill set was in Florida, I think that counts as being American judging him as a product of the environment that influenced his professional development. It would be different if he spent years playing in Europe as a youth learning to play using their styles

That’s not how it works in America though. US citizen= American. End of story.

jaden pls

What a stupid thing to say

Okay, Jaden, that’s enough God talk.

He was the first player that came to mind

I feel like the only way ANT wins mvp is if the Timberwolves mess around and win 60 games. He’s an amazing scorer but he simply don’t put up the raw counting stats that others in the league does. 29/5/4 ain’t winning you an MVP when you got players like SGA, Jokic, and Luka putting up the numbers that they do.

IDK, I feel like the league doesn’t appreciate his archetype as much right now with all the advanced stats going around.

He’d have to either level up his playmaking game above where most people think his ceiling is or lock in for a full season and gun for a all defensive team to just get into that top 5 convo.

God, people want Edwards to happen so badly.

It’s so bizarre. Embiid gets criticized for doing the same shit that Hakeem did when he joined the Dream Team.

I don’t think it’s inherently bad faith to bring it up as a topic, America has dominated basketball for decades so it’s just neat to see some of the greatest players of today be foreign, but yes once you start having takes where it becomes blatant resentment that’s pretty lame.

Eh, could be worse. Imagine how English feel

International tournaments are a massive deal so most leagues (including EPL) will have rules where a certain amount of players per team have to be from the home country to help development. For example there’s some talk around Italy right now where people are blaming the World Cup misses on their clubs prioritizing foreign signings over Italian players. Almost every major club has tons of international players with how big the sport is but there’s definitely still a positive feeling towards having a good local core.

It already has hurt him.. He wasnt ever even considered as an MVP when he averaged 30 on the celtics team in 2024 when they won 64 games, won more games by 20,30,40,. and 50 points than any other team in nba history.. He did exactly what SGA did last year on a bit worse shooting with better defense better rebounding but the only discussion was the celtics were too good as a team.