{"id":330836,"date":"2023-05-15T09:36:20","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T07:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=330836"},"modified":"2023-05-15T09:36:20","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T07:36:20","slug":"joel-embiids-scoring-average-drops-in-playoffs-compared-to-regular-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/joel-embiids-scoring-average-drops-in-playoffs-compared-to-regular-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Joel Embiid&#8217;s Scoring Average Drops in Playoffs Compared to Regular Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid, despite being voted the NBA&#8217;s Most Valuable Player for the regular season, has seen a drop in his scoring average in the playoffs. During the regular season, Embiid averaged 33.1 points per game (PPG), which fell to 23.7 PPG in the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>This decrease of 9.4 points represents the largest drop-off in NBA history for a player who won the MVP in the same year. This statistic is particularly significant considering the pivotal role Embiid played for the 76ers during the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>Embiid&#8217;s playoff performance was further highlighted in the Game 7 night against the Boston Celtics, when the 76ers suffered a defeat that ended their playoff run.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Joel Embiid averaged 33.1 PPG in the regular season and 23.7 PPG in the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>That drop-off (-9.4) is the largest by that year&#8217;s MVP in NBA history. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/beu4XrfqNg\">pic.twitter.com\/beu4XrfqNg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ESPN Stats &amp; Info (@ESPNStatsInfo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ESPNStatsInfo\/status\/1657925826719907842?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 15, 2023<\/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>Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid, despite being voted the NBA&#8217;s Most Valuable Player for the regular season, has seen a drop in his scoring average in the playoffs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":330831,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[92],"tags":[1098,822],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-330836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","tag-joel-embiid-en","tag-philadelphia-76ers-en"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/05\/FwIinLCXwAELpuT.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330836","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\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330836"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=330836"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=330836"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=330836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}