Daily News | Gauging the Sixers’ championship chances ahead of their playoff opener against the Nets
It’s time of year again, right? Crush the Nets in five starting this weekend, then get a lethal dose of the Celtics. I mean, tell me why I should believe in this Sixers team.
Let’s set aside the question of whether Embiid is that player in a definitive sense. I personally think that Giannis Antetokounmpo would be the first overall selection if the league redrafted top to bottom ahead of this year’s playoffs. Steph Curry and LeBron James might get some consideration ahead of Embiid at No. 2. But he’s almost certainly one of a small handful of players who would be in the conversation for those first four or five picks.
Perhaps not. Or, perhaps, your standards aren’t high enough. Between 2007 and 2019, there were only two years in which that season’s MVP did not advance beyond the second round of the playoffs . Every former MVP winner in the last 40 years except Jokic has appeared in a conference finals at least once in his his career. Seven of the last 10 players to win the award have at least one NBA title on their resume.
Right, I get it. All of that and he’s still is two bucks shy of a cup of coffee at Wawa. But he’s also playing better basketball now than he ever has before. If he can manage to stay healthy, he can absolutely be the difference in a second-round series against the Celtics.
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