Imagine, if you will, you’re living in Philadelphia and like to play pickup basketball. It’s a legendary streetball city and has a 3-on-3 culture all its own. It must be exciting to go to a court on a nice day and get some shots off. You never know who might show up.
Like, what if Joel Embiid shows up? He’s bored, not playing professional basketball at the moment, and still healthy enough to get some run in in the offseason for the first time in a long time. Would you let him take some shots and give him some room? Or would you trash talk The Process and get yourself in a situation where you have to guard the 7-footer?
It seems the latter actually happened on Friday, as Embiid was caught on camera dunking on a hapless hoopster who was apparently “trash-talking” the Sixers forward.
https://twitter.com/FeliciaRicci/status/1000175143107354631
It’s easy to be skeptical of this given that it seems to have taken place in Philadelphia, where Embiid is beloved. He’s an athlete also very aware of his social media presence, so it’s possible this was some kind of viral advertisement where a round fellow gets yammed on. But it’s hard to make a poster dunk look this convincing without any sort of effort or acting experience. I mean, look at this.
https://twitter.com/FeliciaRicci/status/1000175143107354631
It looks like this was all in fun, and no one got hurt. Except maybe the ego of the poor fella who ended up trying to defend Embiid. You gotta know better than that, man.
