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Joel Embiid Bests Jimmy Butler, Tyler Herro, Bam Adebayo For Eastern Conference Player Of The Month Award

Herro, Adebayo and Butler come up short in Player of the Month award
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Joel Embiid Bests Jimmy Butler, Tyler Herro, Bam Adebayo For Eastern Conference Player Of The Month Award
Joel Embiid Bests Jimmy Butler, Tyler Herro, Bam Adebayo For Eastern Conference Player Of The Month Award

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Miami Heat standouts Tyler Herro and Jimmy Butler both had solid Decembers but came up short in the Eastern Conference Player of the Month award voting. 

The honor went to MVP candidate Joel Embiid of the Philadelphia 76ers. In the Western Conference, the award was handed to Dallas Maverick guard Luka Doncic. 

Here's a list of the other nominees: 

 Giannis Antetokounmpo (MIL), Jaylen Brown & Jayson Tatum (BOS), Kevin Durant & Kyrie Irving (BKN), Tyrese Haliburton & Buddy Hield (IND), Donovan Mitchell (CLE), Pascal Siakam (TOR) and Franz Wagner (ORL)

Herro and Butler have played a role in the Heat winning two straight games on their current West Coast road trip. The Heat are two games above .500 for the first time this season. 

They face LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers Wednesday night at Staples Center. 

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SHANDEL RICHARDSON

Shandel has covered the NBA since 2010, with previous stops at The Athletic and South Florida Sun-Sentinel. He has covered six NBA Finals, one Super Bowl, the NCAA basketball tournament. He has also been a beat writer for the Miami Hurricanes and contributed on every major beat in South Florida since 2003, including the Miami Dolphins and Miami Marlins. He can also be read in the Sportsbook Review for gambling coverage from around the NBA. A native of Bloomington, Illinois, Shandel attended Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. He's also worked for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Kansas City Star. TWITTER: @ShandelRich EMAIL: shandelrich@gmail.com You can subscribe to our YouTube channel here Follow all of our Miami Heat coverage on Facebook here

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