76ers’ Joel Embiid named 2022-23 NBA MVP award winner

Joel Embiid has won the 2022-23 NBA MVP award, the league announced on Tuesday. Embiid, who received 73 of a possible 100 first-place votes, led the Philadelphia 76ers to the No. 3 seed in the Eastern Conference, averaged a league-best 33.1 points per game to go along with 11.7 rebounds and 4.2 assists per game while anchoring the NBA’s No. 8 ranked regular-season defense. He is currently attempting to win his first championship, which would be Philadelphia’s first since winning it all in 1983. Embiid has notably finished as the runner-up in voting in each of the past two seasons.…