{"id":198175,"date":"2021-02-02T22:55:04","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T21:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=198175"},"modified":"2021-02-02T22:55:04","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T21:55:04","slug":"nikola-jokic-joel-embiid-named-kia-nba-players-of-the-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/nikola-jokic-joel-embiid-named-kia-nba-players-of-the-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikola Jokic, Joel Embiid named Kia NBA Players of the Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Denver Nuggets center Nikola Jokic and Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid have been named the Kia NBA Players of the Month for games played in December and January.<\/p>\n<p>Jokic averaged 26.8 points, 11.8 rebounds and 8.6 assists through 20 games, serving as the catalyst to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/stats\/teams\/advanced\/?sort=OFF_RATING&amp;dir=-1&amp;Season=2020-21&amp;SeasonType=Regular%20Season&amp;DateFrom=12%2F22%2F2020&amp;DateTo=01%2F31%2F2021\">Denver\u2019s No. 4 ranked offense<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Embiid, meanwhile, registered 28.3 points and 11.1 rebounds in 16 games played, guiding the 76ers to a 14-2 record in those contests.<\/p>\n<p>The last time two centers won NBA Players of the Month was in November of 2006, when Dwight Howard and Yao Ming earned the honors, per <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/statmuse\/status\/1356710723699703814\">StatMuse<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Other nominees\u2026<\/p>\n<p>West: DeMar DeRozan (SAS), Luka Don\u010di\u0107 (DAL), Paul George and Kawhi Leonard (LAC), LeBron James (LAL), Damian Lillard (POR) and Christian Wood (HOU)<\/p>\n<p>East: Giannis Antetokounmpo (MIL), Malcolm Brogdon and Domantas Sabonis (IND), Jaylen Brown (BOS), Andre Drummond and guard Collin Sexton (CLE), Kevin Durant (BKN) and Julius Randle (NYK)<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">No question.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HereTheyCome?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#HereTheyCome<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PK2oXSEnxY\">pic.twitter.com\/PK2oXSEnxY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Philadelphia 76ers (@sixers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sixers\/status\/1356709449113751552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 2, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"it\">\ud835\udc03\ud835\udc28\ud835\udc26\ud835\udc22\ud835\udc27\ud835\udc1a\ud835\udc27\ud835\udc1c\ud835\udc1e \ud835\udc29\ud835\udc1e\ud835\udc2b\ud835\udc2c\ud835\udc28\ud835\udc27\ud835\udc22\ud835\udc1f\ud835\udc22\ud835\udc1e\ud835\udc1d \ud83d\ude24<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MileHighBasketball?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MileHighBasketball<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vLTUq5W34e\">pic.twitter.com\/vLTUq5W34e<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Denver Nuggets (@nuggets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nuggets\/status\/1356709222260506624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 2, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Kia NBA Players of the Month for December and January! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KiaPOTM?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#KiaPOTM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>West: Nikola Jokic (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nuggets?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@nuggets<\/a>)<br \/>\nEast: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoelEmbiid?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JoelEmbiid<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sixers?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@sixers<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eJxaGfULrk\">pic.twitter.com\/eJxaGfULrk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA (@NBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA\/status\/1356709944406515714?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 2, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The two centers played at an All-Star level during the first six-plus weeks of the season<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":198174,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[1162,1098,5573,822],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-198175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","tag-denver-nuggets-en","tag-joel-embiid-en","tag-nikola-jokic-en","tag-philadelphia-76ers-en"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/02\/EtP8xC1WQAMxKt4-784x392-1.jpeg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198175"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=198175"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=198175"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=198175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}