Joel Embiid will win MVP

There were fewer bottom-feeder teams in the eastern conference. In the western conference, there were 7 teams that won fewer than 40 games (5 in the east). The more bottom feeder teams there are in a conference, the easier it is to get a better record.

 

Also, the Atlantic Division had four playoff teams (Boston, Toronto, Philly, and Brooklyn)

 

Not one player picked in the lotto has been the MVP for 4 seasons in a row now

@hakeem94

 

Embiid got robbed

 

All 2 dudes.

How many times has the MVP in a season also been on the championship team in the last 20 years?

@hakeem94
FAKE THAT FOR DATA!

 

@jordnnnn
do you have this stat?

 

its the new era officially!
wider talent pool
internet
it not 40 years ago for a long time already...somebody has to email this statistics to the statistics department

 

It's much ado about nothing. People are going to cite the W/L records of teams within a conference as a means to justify how the EC > WC, but just because there's more parity within a conference, doesn't mean that conference is better than the other conference.

It just means the gap between Miami and Detroit is smaller than the gap between Phoenix and Houston. Parity should be used to compare strengths within a conference, not between conferences.