I'm rewatching the Olympic gold medal game again, and upon my review, I noticed that when Wemby loses his shoe it's because Embiid "accidentally" steps on the back of his heel. But I've slowed it down and zoomed, and based on my assessment, Embiid looks down at Wemby's foot and then looks away before stepping right on the back of his heel as to appear nonchalant.
Now, normally I wouldn't fault a player for this – but it's Embiid. He is known to be a dirty childish player whose emotions take over when he gets bested on any given possession. In my opinion, this was deliberate and it sucks to know that Embiid will be in the league trying to tarnish the young career of someone who just may be the greatest overall basketball player of all-time.
Let me know what y'all think. Video links starts at the time of the replay.
https://youtu.be/uJs693eNfuQ?si=GFD_RJw56LdKGuq2&t=3940
P.S. Even the announcer says "and Embiid just stepped *accidentally* on the back of the foot."
by haikupoetics2
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Wouldn’t be surprised. Would be very in-character for Embiid.
I literally saw that live I said “get tf off my boy you little bitch”
Share this in the 76ers reddit. They just signed Yabusele from France and I would love to hear the home crowd in PHI boo Embid
It’s bone headed by Joel for sure but he isn’t even looking in victors direction before the contact is made, I think it’s just random
I personally don’t think it looks intentional and at the time the US was up 12. Can’t imagine Embiid much to be mad about especially mad enough to intentionally try to hurt someone
Embiid is the new-age Draymond
does not look intentional at all lol
Doesn’t look like anything to me, and going as far to say Embiid is out to tarnish Wemby’s career is overly dramatic, imo
Embiid would be just as likely to roll his ankle as Wemby would be to get hurt anyways
I don’t think so. The US was winning the game and Embiid wasn’t even looking in Wemby’s direction.
Definitely reaching here, accidental contact.
Also, Embiid is nowhere near as bad as others are trying make him out to be in this thread.
This doesn’t happen all that often. What a coincedence that Embiid is the offender
Looks very accidental to me, stop being dramatic OP
I do think Embiid, is a childish player but I don’t think it was malicious or on purpose. Just two big giraffes who got tangled up
Embiid is reckless, not malicious
Not likely, but…Embiid is reckless and doesn’t give a fuck, but will turn around and cry if someone breathes on him, so whatever.
Kerr benched Embiid in the 1st quarter after Wemby dominated him and made him look foolish. So I can see a bit of “accidental” contact being made because he was embarrassed.
Kick that POS out of the league and tear up his contract
Embid a dirty ass player.
Embiid shouldn’t even have been on the court.
If NBA were high school Embiid is definitely Wemby’s bully. That being said, I don’t think he was trying to injure him, just mess with him psychologically the way bullies usually do. Wemby was flustered by if I remember correctly he went out and got 2 then hit a 3 shortly after. So the kid has resolve. They know he can play and has all the potential in the world, but they think he might be soft. So they’re going to test him mentally. He’s also very marketable so there’s probably a little jealousy involved. Embiid even though he was MVP is not getting those endorsements and commercials and hype. Plus the French love Wemby and hate Embiid. So there’s that.
i dont think embiid’s that coordinated; if you look at the tangle of legs it really looks more like an accident than anything. much easier to fall on wemby in the paint like he did to mitchell robinson
https://preview.redd.it/mkk2k4hkxxjd1.png?width=800&format=png&auto=webp&s=2b6b173d8ebaccc37d2e5529c0cd76e1e5b85f79
I definitely saw that as intentional and ive been worrying since that move he pulled in the post season against the knicks. Ive been saying that his ego is so fragile that he’s going to unleash on Wemby. Someone else who could become the “face of the nba” get dpoy or be in the running for MVP. Embiid views Wemby as a threat to his legacy
I didn’t think it was intentional, but I *did* think “damn, he could have badly twisted his ankle on that.”
He was lucky, but I guess his flexibility makes him not prone to injury.