The Sixers will play host to the New Orleans Pelicans on this Thanksgiving Eve, and thankful we all should be: tonight, we get to observe two of the very best big men the game has to offer face each other head-to-head. Joel Embiid and Anthony Davis are each engaged in a take-no-prisoners bludgeoning of the NBA through the first quarter of the season. The two immensely skilled skyscrapers are reshaping the conversation about a league widely thought to be trending away from the dominant center. So much so that both Joel and AD are credibly in the conversation for the MVP award if it were distributed based on this season’s results up until today:
| Rk | Player | Tm | W | L | W/L% | G | MP | Prob% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anthony Davis | NOP | 10 | 7 | . |