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Originally Posted by minnesotasam
Embiid has played fewer than 800 minutes and he's going to play in (at most) 20 games. He's been so good on the floor though, that it still seems like he's a runaway for ROY. Is there anyone else even in contention?
Well rookies tend to suck and other than Embiid they certainly did this season.
Usually I'd expect it to go to any rookie that managed to show a decent amount of upside but really there hasn't been one. The winner might end up being the worst ROY ever
I'm guessing they won't give it to Embiid cause they like to have imaginary limits for amount of games played to win those awards but 800 minutes of Embiid are more valuable to winning basketball games than any other rookie season this year really.
Maybe Buddy Hield transforms into Steph Curry like Vivek projected for the last 30 games or so and gets it