Joel Embiid career is essentially over

[RubioTheCruel]

Who got they pick this year?

OKC but it's top 7 protected... so they should probably tank. They're 15 games under .500

 

[Rev]

I don’t usually condone it but this kinda shyt from Embiid literally makes me angry, and I wouldn’t mind seeing somebody stomp on his fukkin face after falling into them the way he does. His big ass is dying to cause injuries.

 

[Trojan 24]

OKC but it's top 7 protected... so they should probably tank. They're 15 games under .500

Yeah they need to do it today, Presti already out there with the Birdman hand rub watching them

 

[DjMe]

But a lot of the blame comes from himself, I feel like he didn’t take his career serious enough until it was too late.

He spent his entire life honing his craft, to the point he was the best basketball player in the world for a period of time--2x scoring champ and MVP. He attained a level of performance in professional sports that 99.999999999% of people to live will never come close to reaching, likely had a team of dieticians, personal trainers, MDs, PTs, yogis, strength trainers, chefs, etc. etc.
He has made 515 MILLION DOLLARS. He can afford to have a small city exist just to serve him and allow him to maintain his peak performance.
All this: "oh he should drop 50 POUNDS and play lighter."
Athletes at that level are creatures of habbit--his system that got him to the top of the mountain is his system. Whether or not he wants to change everything about it is up to him.

 

[T-K-G]

He spent his entire life honing his craft, to the point he was the best basketball player in the world for a period of time--2x scoring champ and MVP. He attained a level of performance in professional sports that 99.999999999% of people to live will never come close to reaching, likely had a team of dieticians, personal trainers, MDs, PTs, yogis, strength trainers, chefs, etc. etc.
He has made 515 MILLION DOLLARS. He can afford to have a small city exist just to serve him and allow him to maintain his peak performance.
All this: "oh he should drop 50 POUNDS and play lighter."
Athletes at that level are creatures of habbit--his system that got him to the top of the mountain is his system. Whether or not he wants to change everything about it is up to him.

You typed all that just to further explain why he wasted his potential, he already had basketball figured out, ALL he had to do was focus on his body once he got in the league.

Obviously he's a creature of habit or we wouldn't be here the point is that habit cost him and his legacy alot and it was avoidable.

 

[Sonic Boom of the South]

This crybaby emo loser mouf too heavy for them KIA refurbished ass knees.


Send this bytch ass nikka back to France for a crate of croissants and a Lupin the 3rd comic book.

 

[duncanthetall]

If he’s really gonna do that then he better not do some goofy shyt like tryna rush back at some point next season

 

[UpAndComing]

Why are Shai and Luka in the “young player” category while Tatum is considered in his prime? Tatum is only a couple months other than Shai. Also, Luka and Shai regardless of their age (26) are in their 7th season.

It's because Tatum haters were hoping he was in his mid 30s so they don't have to see him anymore. But he's just getting started

 

[Boonapalist]

I remember when Embiid was the chosen one on here. Now he gets shyt on by everyone but 6er fans . Where’s Malta when you need him

 

[DjMe]

You typed all that just to further explain why he wasted his potential, he already had basketball figured out, ALL he had to do was focus on his body once he got in the league.

Obviously he's a creature of habit or we wouldn't be here the point is that habit cost him and his legacy alot and it was avoidable.

This is an incredibly myopic take.
Personal training is holistic.
He takes a beating in the paint, his team might have determined long ago that carrying the weight he carried was a risk/reward proposition that allowed him to play "his" game, despite taking a toll on his knees.
Again,
I say to you again:
this is a man that won an MVP and was a 2x scoring champion.
He is, by that metric, one of the top, what? 50? 40? Human beings to ever pick up a basketball and play the game competitively, in the history of the human species?
For you to be so dismissive of this, hand waving it away, because "he could have done better and it cost him his legacy," is beyond presumptuous. You're not saying "I wonder what could have been." You're straight up dismissing the man's entire life spent honing his craft, and acting as if you have the answer squirrelled away for how he could go from top 50 ever, to #1.

Do YOU use that knowledge to in any way make your life better? Do you sell this arcane wisdom of yours to unlock basketball players full potential?
No?
You just dish out shytty takes on an astroturfed forum designed to drive engagement in Disney products?
Cool.

Glad to see you're not wasting your potential.

 

[Reggie]

If it isn't about over for Joel it is the beginning of the end. He must have known what he was talking about when he said no more back to backs. He's had a career that will probably get him into the Hall but at the same time a career of what could have been too. He was the one thing Philly ended up getting right with the process though you wish he could have stayed healthy more. He probably knew the injury against Golden State was it so that's maybe why he chose to get a medal with the USA squad. Might be the only hardware he sees ever again.