Joel Embiid won’t be playing in the Rising Stars game on Friday night due to his lingering knee injury, but the Sixers star big man still made the trip to New Orleans for All-Star Weekend. Embiid was at Rising Stars practice to watch and did an interview with Rick Fox on NBA TV while there.
Fox asked Embiid what he was planning on getting into while in New Orleans, and Embiid said after his shirtless adventure at a recent Meek Mill concert blew up and got some with the Sixers upset, he’d be keeping a lower profile this weekend.
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“You know, we’re going to see. I don’t know. I kind of got in trouble for taking my shirt off at a Meek Mill concert, but we gon’ see. I’m injured, it don’t matter that I’m injured, I can’t be doing that. But we gon’ see.”
All-Star Weekend is filled with parties and events, so Embiid shouldn’t have any problem finding things to do, but don’t expect to see the young star on any videos turning up this weekend. He seems to have learned that the Sixers don’t want their big man becoming too much of a party animal, so, whatever he does, he’s going to try and stay out of trouble this week.
