All-Star centre and two-time league scoring champion Joel Embiid earned his first NBA MVP trophy on Tuesday night.
Cameroonian Joel Embiid moved to tears after his first NBA MVP trophy
Philadelphia 76ers centre Joel Embiid, originally from Cameroon
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The 29-year-old from Yaoundé , Cameroon , topped two-time winner Nikola Jokic of the Denver Nuggets.
Joel Embiid averaged 33.1 points winning his second straight scoring title.
Jokic finished runner-up in the MVP voting, and Giannis Antetokounmpo of the Milwaukee Bucks was third.
Embiid has been side lined with a sprained right knee that cost him one game of the playoff sweep against Brooklyn and the opening game of the Eastern Conference semi-finals against Boston , which was won by Philadelphia on Monday night.