Markelle Fultz And Joel Embiid Talked Trash About Their ‘NBA 2K18’ Game On Twitter

Markelle Fultz may not be playing for the Philadelphia 76ers for a few days, but that doesn’t mean the top pick in the most recent NBA Draft isn’t playing basketball.

Turns out he’s been playing NBA 2K18 with his teammate Joel Embiid, and tempers seem to be a bit high with the young Sixers stars. Embiid and Fultz exchanged a series of tweets about their matchups together, and the poop emoji was used more than once.

In fact, it started with a single poop emoji tweet from Fultz on Thursday.

That only gave trolls an opportunity to make fun of his free throw shot technique, so Fultz was more specific with his next tweet.

It’s clear now: Fultz says that Embiid is bad at NBA 2K18. But that’s clearly not something that will go unanswered, especially from someone as social media savvy as Embiid.

He started with two emoji-only tweets himself, first fire and then poop.

Could these be unrelated to the tweets of Fultz? Well, maybe. But Embiid soon made it clear what he’s talking about.

The only thing we’ve really learned here is that professional athletes have huge egos. And that someone is not as good at NBA 2K as they think. Maybe they can stream a matchup sometime and we can find out for ourselves.