Stephen A.: The 76ers ABSOLUTELY made a mistake playing Joel Embiid in Game 2 | First Take
Stephen A. Smith explains why the 76ers should have sat Joel Embiid in Game 2 vs. the Boston Celtics, then Stephen A., Jay Williams and Brian Windhorst discuss LeBron James and Anthony Davis.
0:00 Stephen A.’s thoughts on Game 2
2:13 JWill is proud of Embiid
6:48 Can LeBron James and Anthony Davis sustain playing high minutes?
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26 Comments
No credit to the Celtics for their win. Nothing! just what Philly did wrong. talk about biased reporting
So you want rusty Embiid for an important game 3. Okay.
I watched 1:43 of this and this whole take is ludicrous. Joel embiid is coming off not playing for 10 days, so you want him to get conditioning instead of delaying it until game 3. Now, the hope is, the rust is off, a little wind is back. And James harden still played in this game. Sure he has to concentrate on getting joel involved, but that will be the case in game 3. Hindsight is so 20/20 and these headlines and hot takes are just that. If he can play you play him, I think its fairly obvious the sixers don't stand a chance in the series without him.
agree with Jay, Embiid needed this game to get in shape and back in rhythm. He hasn't played in like 10+days.
76ers think they won the championship already because Embiid got the MVP who’s overrated btw. People finally felt sorry enough for him. 😂 Jokic got robbed because of voters fatigue.
JoeL Embiid:
– never shows up in the playoffs
– overrated defense
– fragile and injury prone
– weak mentality
– can only score 30 points with 15 free throws
– his team wins without him & loses with him
– only won MVP because he cried about it & with help of media
—> This is your 2023 MVP 🤡
"look what they did without him" IS such a dumb narrative. Sixers didnt play great game 1, Celtics played down like theyve done ALL YEAR… Its been about Boston not Philly
odin embiid
Jay Williams such a 🤡 and a Bronsexual 🤦♂️ Made it a POINT to say LeBum beat GS that one time, but won’t bring up the Draymond suspension, or the fact Curry WON THREE rings beatin LeBum. SIX FINALS LOSSES HAS NEVER BEEN A TOPIC ON ESPN😂😭 I need a Docuseries on LeBum and Jerry West they lost so many rings
Bro. It's ebb and flow . Like curry drops 50 and then next game nothing. Same thing with harden and his 45 point night. They will do that again this series. That's what makes Jordan so great. He bought it every night in the playoffs.
Embiid will have 35 and 10 game 3
celtics lakers finals 🤔
People go to work injured everyday that don't play sports. And they're paid about about 250.00 a day not 25,000.00 for 5 hours of work.what a bunch of overpaid blacksketball babies.
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The problem is Boston is just a better team. Doesn't matter how healthy Embiid is.
If you watch these games LeBron is on the floor for 40 minutes but he doesn't play all of them
He’s not injured. All made up to protect his mvp.
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😂😂😂how they wit without embiid and now he’s back they got blown out
You can see how Stephen A saying Embiid should sit out thats tells you how's the media give Embiid a free pass if this was Kawhi he would be Crucified by SA
Joker is the real MVP
I'm not a Lebron hater at all but Christ we all know he's 38 stop mentioning it 🤣
I hate how they say this after the game, nun said before the game. Basically waited for the outcome then say sum. If the won it’d be a different topic 😂 at the end of the day no one knows till they play or try it
He shoud thanks to KP. "MvP" 😂
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Doc Rivers is in a tough position. From one side he is being pressured politically to play J.Embiid and from the other side he know if he doesn't play him and they lose then he will be blamed. So he played Embiid coming from this MVP media campaign and they lost. Now everyone is blaming Embiid and the decision to play him. Doc Rivers has strong talent even on the bench. They don't need Embiid to win. Get the guy physically up to par instead of testing the waters.