Wednesday night was not a good night to be a top 5 team in action. There were only two from the current top 5 that played on Wednesday and both managed to lose to unranked opponents at home.
No. 5 Florida lost 65-59 to Loyola-Chicago and No. 2 Kansas fell 74-65 to Washington. The latter of those two upsets was of tremendous interest in the Philadelphia 76ers locker room as it was a matchup of Joel Embiid’s Jayhawks and Markelle Fultz’s Huskies.
If you thought Fultz, who is still rehabbing his shoulder and participating in “minimal” basketball activity, would let Embiid (the NBA’s Twitter troll king) slide, you thought wrong. Fultz took his victory lap on Twitter following the Huskies convincing road win over Kansas by telling Embiid to “Process that” over a GIF of Washington’s celebration.
Process that 🤫😅🍆@JoelEmbiid https://t.co/I8guTPJBS9
— Markelle Fultz (@MarkelleF) December 7, 2017
As a team.#TougherTogether pic.twitter.com/Qa977iZz8X
— Washington Men's Basketball (@UW_MBB) December 7, 2017
It’s obviously all in good fun and Embiid, at this point, has to expect the target to be on his back when it comes to Twitter jokes after everything he’s done, even from his teammates. That said, Fultz being a rookie might find himself with some added tasks from Embiid once his shoulder gets right or, at the least, you can bet Embiid will be waiting for the day he can fire back on Twitter at the rookie point guard.
