Sixers’ Joel Embiid doing things not seen since Hall of Famer Wilt Chamberlain

Sixers’ Joel Embiid doing things not seen since Hall of Famer Wilt Chamberlain

There’s no other way to say this Joel embiid is a monster a monster you are locked on 76ers your daily Philadelphia 76ers podcast part of the locked on podcast Network your team every day thanks for making locked on 76 is your first listen every day we are free and

Available wherever you get your podcast and on YouTube part of the lock dor podcast Network your team every day hello I’m flying solo today my name is Keith pompe I’m one of the co-hosts of the locked on 76ers podcast just want to give you all a little uh I guess Christmas Eve podcast

Um getting ready to I’m actually just finished packing I’m getting ready to hop on the flight to go to Miami to uh cover the the Sixers game tomorrow and I’ll be with the uh Team on the road trip well let me just break it down to

Y’all let you know I don’t actually I don’t travel with the team but I cover the team so when I say I’m be with the team meaning you know I’ll be at the media availabilities I’ll be at the game I’ll be you know this and that so the Sixers go to Miami

Tomorrow um actually they play in Miami on Christmas then on Wednesday they play the Orlando Magic then they got the Houston Rockets and that’s on Friday and on Saturday they have the Chicago Bulls so I’ll be at those four games now what I want to talk to y’all about is Joel

Embiid Joel and be I mean Joel embiid has been extremely dominant he’s been destroying and I can talk about what he’s been doing for days right days but in addition to Joel embiid we’re going to break down Tobias Harris’s performance you know Tobias Harris has

Been a little bit I mean we called him out I wrote about him in the Philadelphia inquire a lot of things he been Mr passive not aggressive but on Friday Tobias came out and had a season high of 33 points he had 24 points in the first half brother

Man was balling so we’ll talk about that and then in the serve segment the Sixers picked up Kenny Lofton Jr some people call him his nickname is Kenny but there’s also things written about him Kenneth lofin Jr I just want to break that down I kind of like his game he’s

Like a I don’t want to I’m not comparing him but he has a body like Barkley when Barkley first came in meaning you know 67 guy Barkley was shorter than that though but 67 listed to 80 over 300s 300 pounds extremely athletic does things uh the only thing

Is I I don’t know if you really have a future with the Sixers when you sign these two-way deals now maybe who knows maybe he he could crack it maybe he could crack it but um but we’ll see but let’s talk about embid I mean Joel embiid right now when we

Look at it this guy is not only is he’s the NBA’s best player the Sixers center is better than last year’s MVP campaign season I mean this dude is dominating the league you know it it was one of those things after Nicole yic won the uh NBA title and how he was dominating

Folks in in the playoffs and all that other stuff and Joel won MVP last year he won MVP he deserved it you know I go to Twitter I voted for MB second year in a row I voted for him I didn’t vote for him beforehand but that was the second

Year in the row that I voted for him and um you know some of my I guess you want to call colleague beat writer colleagues and all this other stuff were basically apologizing for voting for MB MVP the reason why they were apologizing is because nicolea yic was just putting up great

Numbers um you know doing great things leading his team to the championship right they they they they won a and there was a lot of people like saying how they had it wrong they had this they had that and as much as MB says he didn’t do anything this year he sure is

Having to hold my beard moment I mean literally the brother is having a hold my beard moment like when you look at him right embiid is averaging 35 points a game I mean 35 points you know that in itself is like what ridiculous right so he’s averaging you

Know 35 points um you know but the the crazy thing about it y’all he’s averaging 35 points and 40 I mean excuse me 34.2 minutes he is on Pace to join Hall of Fame wil Chamberlain arguably the best player to ever put lace it up from over Brook

High my man John Mitchell same same school um is the only player is the only players since the 1954 55 season to finish with more points than menis played wil averaged 50.4 points and 48.5 minutes for the Philadelphia Warriors during the 1961 62 season and for some of you guys

Saying Philadelphia Warriors for you young Young Bucks yep they were in Philadelphia then they moved to San Francisco and then they became the Golden State Warriors and they you know this and that now here’s the thing y’all if MB played 48 point five minutes per game that Chamberlain played he would be averaging

40 9.9 points so when I say that Joel embiid is pitting up wil Chamberlain numbers and then sometimes you have critics saying what are you talking about Keith how dare you say that there you go he’s putting up wi Chamberlain numbers now in in addition to Leading the league and scoring Joel

Is fif in rebounds at 11.7 per game nin in blocks right at two per game and he’s averaging a career best six assists now to me that’s the one thing that’s really stand stands out now some people may talk about his defense you know now the two blocks a game and his defensive

Presence is phenomenal you got to say that he also averaged 2.5 blocks as a rookie now again he didn’t he only played in 30 something games right whatever that year but he averaged 2.5 but the thing that’s getting me is the assist and it’s kind of

Like that was the thing that we all he was a turnover weight happen he still turns the ball over a lot which can be a little bit misleading because if you look at a lot of guys who handle the ball a lot especially big guys and you know

Like Chris Paul like different you know stuff like that but they tend to turn the ball over a lot they do they they tend the ball they turn the ball over a lot I mean you look at James Harden and James Harden you know was on that

Prolific tear you know when he was with the Houston Rockets look at his turn turnovers he turned the ball over a lot so you know I mean it’s easy to point out oh yeah Joel has six turnovers I get it I get it but to me him having the

Career best six assists speaks volumes because that was the one thing that Nicole AIC could do distribute The Rock and do things like and make his teammates better that the critic said Joel couldn’t so when you look at Joel you’re like okay he’s really balling now again Joelle winning regular season awards has

Never you know in accolades has never been a problem producing the regular season has never been a problem you know joelle’s going to be ultimately judged by what he does in the postseason right he is but right now I have to say that this dude is balling and I have a lot of

Respect for Marcus Morris a lot of respect for Marcus M I have a lot of respect for Nick Paton I have a lot of respect for Cub you know all these guys uh Patrick Beverly and the reason why I’m singling these guys out because they’ve been in the league

For 10 plus years they’re veterans they played with uh kawhai Leonards they played with LeBron the LeBron James they played with the Dame LS you know what I mean like they played with these top 75 guys you know all time they play with future Hall of Famers and when they tell me that

Mb’s the best in the league I believe him I mean I do and and I get it sometimes you might say what else is he gonna say that’s his teammate right like real R like what else is he gonna say that’s his teammate but when I

Hear it I’m praising him I believe it like the one thing you know Morris told me he says like dude is like he’s different like he was trying to collect his thoughts he said it ain’t even about scoring man he said this plays defense he helps guys protect

The rim so he’s doing it on both sides of the ball I don’t know any super bow Superstar that’s willing to put their body on the line day in and day out like that like literally right I mean he said that and then you know this is the one

Thing that really got me thinking and it’s true Morris goes on and he says you know he protects the rim he’s scoring from all three levels which is true he can score from all three levels then he said I put shooting there I don’t remember another player like that at 72

That’s when and and then when he get down low he’s on some Shack bloop you know what I mean and I do know what he means and it’s crazy that he says say that because when Joel now Shaq I think Shaq is a was a more consistently forceful player like Shaq’s

Dominance was unguardable nobody could guard him there are times when Joel embiid displays that right but I don’t know if Joelle going to the rim is more harder or impactful than Shaq I don’t know it you know we see it from time to time but I’m telling you Shaq was

Breaking stuff like break stuff right you know he was that strong like breaking back boards things like that so but I’m tell you this about sh the 2000 MVP and four time NBA championship was more dominant near the basket however embiid has a 15 foot foot jump shot

That’s lethal y’all I’m telling you his jump shot is more clutch than most people’s I going to say most but some people’s layup you know what I mean he can hit the three he can put it on the floor drive to the basket or pull up for a

Midrange jumper oh and he’s hitting 80 9.3% of his free throws Shaq couldn’t do any of those things NADA NADA and then when you talk to Nick nurse he says look I keep saying this I think he’s continuing to get better I think that I think that he’s just doing enough different things

Rically to keep guys guessing listen my favorite stuff is every now and then he shoots it he makes it he makes it and then all of a sudden he goes down the lane and and dunks it on about three people I’m telling you Joel embiid is displaying po dominance this year y’all

Pure dominance he’s been phenomenal extremely phenomenal I’m telling you brother’s been balling and it’s something that we have to pay attention to you know he’s having a a great year great season um and you know what again I keep saying it over and over again I

Know that he’s going to be judged based off of what he does in the postseason right he’s gonna be judged based on what he does in the postseason but I’m here to tell you he’s balling Big Time balling when we get right back I want to talk to y’all about Tobias

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Subscribe to the first ever National Sports 247 streaming Channel let’s talk about t Tobias right so you know Tobias last time we were on here we kind of called out Tobias you know and and I did it also in the article I really called him out I’m not gonna say called him out

What I did is I said like I get it when we talk I just said all those things to you guys about how dominant Joel embiid is right Tyrese Maxi has been the best sidick for Joel in a while like Tyrese Max Joel’s balling Maxi is balling their twom man

Game and that pick and roll has been hard to stop now what happened is they used to have more of a more of a ball movement ball oriented thing then let’s face it when Kelly UB went down got to a point where they start going to the pick and roll a lot

More well they go to it and guess what happens teams can’t stop it so they keep going to it keep going to it keep going to it and you know that’s what I tell you do now in the mean in the midst of that other people had to create their own shots be

Aggressive because like I said embiid is getting the assist now so you be aggressive Maxi has the ball point guard be aggressive they’ll find you but Tobias wasn’t really that aggressive right he just wasn’t he wasn’t he was staying in the corner whatever hold on well against the Raptors on

Friday tobas seemed like to find the ball before he wanted the ball to find him no he went out there and found the ball he had 18 points in the first quarter I believe it was 24 at the half and ended up with 33 right he was

Balling and he has to keep this up and I’m happy for him I mean I am because you know you want to see he’s the third star of the team and what they did in the process they had three guys Maxi had 33 Tobias had 33 Joel had 31 Joel almost

Had a triple I mean a triple double too now he had what was it he had 31 points 10 rebounds and nine assists right so Tobias if thebi could keep this up it’s gonna make lethal now again that because what’s that twom man game is their best

Thing but we all know once the playoffs come and I talked about this before teams are going to take that away from Tobias they are they’re going to take it away from U not Tobias from um Joelle and uh Maxi and they’re going to force Tobias to produce so if you get him

Ready now he should be ready and see the problem is too often with the Sixers like they’ll do something in the all regular season then the playoffs come they try to like let’s implement this new stuff because of injuries because of this because of that or whatever right

Well got a new coach and you know I think when he’s trying to do and I don’t think he’s trying to see who gonna step up that’s the reason why Pat Bev goes out there and shoot threes he can shoot him coaches like do it that’s why the

Anthony Melton is like attacking the rim playing like like he can right that’s why Marcus Morris is always cutting then cutting outside and wide open for or three and draining them because they coach knows that I need people to step up in the playoffs and look Tobias is the third

Star he not getting plays ran from him for him um but hey you gotta find the ball and Tobias found the ball the the last couple games he found the ball so and not the last game so we got to see if he’s going to step up and he’s going

To do that because they’re going to need him and this is a a big stretch this stretch against Miami Orlando um Houston and and and Chicago I mean Chicago beat them the last time they played Chicago’s not that good the athletic they got they have good talent

But they don’t have a good record Houston is a surprising team Orlando might be the team of the year as far as comeback Team of the Year right I mean Orlando has been balling they’ve been balling so you know this is going to be a barometer test for the Sixers and

We’ll see what they can do but we’ll also see what Tobias can do and you know we’ll see if Tobias can continue to step up you know I don’t want to call it a fluke or anything like that but we’re going to see if this is a fluke game for

The way they play you know it’s gonna be a national TV game tomorrow in Miami we gonna see we’re going to see if the buyas can keep this up keep balling do what he has to do right I’m telling you we’ll find out shortly tomorrow after

You guys open up your gifts and do whatever you all the other things you have to do we’ll definitely find out but when we get back I want to talk to you guys about uh Kenny Lofton Jr from louisi an Tech I kind of like the guy you know he’s a

Um you know he’s a a a pretty good player for what he is um you know but it’s weird I always felt like he should have stayed in school another year but he went to the combine and was killing it so more power to him but we’ll talk

More about him when we when we when I get right back lock on has launched the first ever National Sports 247 streaming Channel on YouTube locked on sports today is here on YouTube covering the top sports stories of the day with the local Experts of locked on plus our national

Shows covering every league go to locked on sports today on YouTube and subscribe to the first ever National Sports 247 streaming Channel I’m telling y’all do it today people definitely do it today now so I don’t know man this business is kind of cruel though it is so word

Breaks that can Lofton is going to sign with the Sixers then you say to yourself like okay well I mean I was we were at practice literally like next thing know you look down and like it’s breaking that he’s about to sign with the Sixers

You know and so then all of a sudden it’s like well he’s going to sign with a three-way they already have three three-way players so that means somebody has to get cut in order for them to sign him so you’re like okay so who is going to get cut well the Sixers were

Practicing just concluded practice so they had like guys what the Sixers tend to do is when the practice is officially over or whatever towards the end of practice like they’ll have they let the media in and when we get in we typically see guys going through jaill drills so now um Turk

Smith and um and Ricky Council the two of the three the three-way players were with the team right the G League team the other one javante smart was with the Sixers he made his first play in his first game on Friday played the final 40 seconds talking

About his first 76ers game right so you’re like okay well who’s it going to be I see javante the next thing you know whoops javon’s wait and that’s the cruel thing about the business because it’s like my man got basically cut while he was like on the court right after

Practice shooting shots didn’t even know like you know what I mean like who know if he knew but it was just kind of like wow really like he was literally out there and then next thing you know it reports like Sixers wave such and such going to wave such and such and you’re

Like wow ouch okay I mean it’s tough man like I heard stories of guys one guy told me once that the he was playing for I believe it was the Pistons or somewhere and and I’m I know I’m gonna get to Kenny L but I got to share this one so

Literally the plane was leaving the gate right the plane was leaving the gate getting ready to take off and they stopped and they took him off the plane seriously I I like he told me that he said that was the most embarrassing thing that ever happened to him then I

Heard of one time where and this happened here early in the process where the the guy the team was in Cleveland going to Cleveland he it was like a back to back it was like a back to back they were playing on a back to back and the guy

Was in Cleveland they played uh they Cleveland so you know they had the hotel all day and as he hopped on the bus he literally hops on the bus um and as he’s getting up getting ready to get off the bus at the arena that’s when he was formed that he was waved

Telling you dude it could be rough it it it it um it it can be rough you know on how that thing happens but now they got Kenny Lofton right so Kenny Lofton uh Kenny or Kenneth Jr Kenny Lofton Jr is you know was like I said 67

Listed 275 280 I’m hearing he’s more like 300 and I’m not saying he’s fat he’s just a big dude he looks like he could be a defensive lineman like you know he’s a he’s a big dude right so he averaged 2.6 points 6.6 re um 2.6 points in 6.6

Minutes in in 15 games for the Grizzlies this season right you know and you know what happened is the Grizzlies had to create space for John Morant um who was suspended the first 25 games so they had another player that they felt like they wanted to keep so they had to end up

Getting rid of Loft right um now the thing about it is Lofton originally initially signed a two-way contract with Memphis after going undrafted out of Louisiana Tech in 2022 right uh he was The N he was the NBA g-league Rookie of the Year in 2023 for the Memphis hustle so you know

He was the guy right now he averaged 20.2 points 10.5 rebounds 3.9 assists and 1 Point to steals in 17 games last season with the uh with the hustle now the crazy part about this so as a two-way he’s going to play for the Sixers and play for the blue Coast the

Sixers G League team but the crazy part is he had a career high 33 points against the blue coats last season that happened on February uh the thir he also represented the G league in the 2020 three Rising Stars challenge at the NBA Allstar Weekend so you know he’s a a good

Addition the only thing is is like I don’t know I mean the Sixers say they they stay locked step in key but I don’t know anybody as of thus far it might happen this year with Turk SMI and Ricky H but I don’t know any and

Even Ricky was way but he was brought back but that hasn’t been since Daryl myay has been here there hasn’t been a single guy who started the season on with the uh with a two-way contract to finish the season with it like they just get them and they go now who knows Kenny

Lofton could be a guy they want to get a nice long hard look at and might see because he does have some uh potential he is somebody you know has a provide bench help grab boards do stuff like that so he could be someone you look at but

You know it’s weird like if you think that if you want to play for that team’s NBA uh roster fulltime you would go somewhere else you wouldn’t come to Philly because it just doesn’t happen that way I’m sorry it just doesn’t happen it doesn’t but look y’all I want to thank y’all for

Listening you know uh tomorrow I’mma break down tomorrow’s game uh with the Miami Heat the whole nine but I want y’all to have a blessed day uh don’t drink too much eggn tonight don’t do anything crazy um and uh Merry Christmas uh you know uh Hanukkah pass I just say all the

Holidays K Quanza whatever like whatever you celebrate all that and I shouldn’t say whatever because that seems to missive but like all the holidays I want you guys to enjoy them and uh have a blessed day hopefully John will be back tomorrow and we can uh break this thing back down peace

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