Joel Embiid is even making friends of his perceived enemies these days. The charming 7-footer is turning Warriors into comrades and apparently even making doubters like Shaq change his tone about The Process.
Following high praise from the likes of Kevin Durant and Draymond Green even after a subtle 3-1 Warriors joke, Embiid now has the likes of Shaq on his side to boot.
Kyle Neubeck of Philly Voice spotted a story about Shaq making amends with and becoming friends with Embiid on The Big Podcast with Shaq.
As it turns out, Joel didn’t care about the criticism he got in the first place: he “loves” Shaq and it helped them make friends.
Security guard comes to me and says, ‘Hey man, Joel loves you bro.’ And I said you know what, before we get started, you need to tell Joel I owe him an apology. I was hard on him last year, because you know how when you see people and you really don’t know? But this kid is the truth. So we exchanged numbers, and we’ve been talking the last couple days, but he’s a really nice kid. His game is really, really—like me, I don’t give it up—I’m giving it up, I’m giving it up to Joel Embiid, his game is nice.
I don’t want to brag, but he was doing okay the first half [against the Lakers], so I text this guy and this is what you got to do against…boom. And he followed it.
It really is great that Embiid is making so many people change their minds about he and the Sixers this season. Both have a good thing going here.
