Lost in the rebirth of the Hassan Whiteside and Joel Embiid beef is the fact that Whiteside absolutely yammed on The Process on Thursday night.
The focus of the beef was a shoving incident that drew a Whiteside technical foul and the Embiid accusation that Whiteside tried to hurt him. But later in the game, Whiteside took flight on a dunk that got Embiid caught up in the aftermath.
Let’s take a look at it from the back first, and then we’ll get to Shaq making some jokes about it on Inside the NBA.
https://twitter.com/MiamiHEAT/status/971956212920127493
The slow-motion shows that Embiid doesn’t really get involved here until the end, but it’s still a pretty devastating poster for the Sixers big.
On TV, however, it looks much worse. And when Inside the NBA went through highlights of the game on Thursday night, Shaq gleefully made some jokes about how uncomfortable the dunk looked for Embiid.
Hassan Whiteside really put his nuts in Embiid's face. Shaq's commentary is classic. pic.twitter.com/lka0nrvz3m
— Gifdsports (@gifdsports) March 9, 2018
“Oooooh! Ohhh! That dunk was nuts,” Shaq said, clearly speaking about more than just the insanity of the play.
He was not done.
“That was great ball movement right there,” he added, drawing laughs.
It’s good that something about the feud drew laughs, because it seems like Embiid and Whiteside won’t be laughing about one another anytime soon.
