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Speaker 1: big plans the seventy Sixers have for the rest of
Speaker 1: the twenty nineteen twenty season, there's no disputing that Joel
Speaker 1: Embiid is going to have a significant say, and last
Speaker 1: we saw him, he very much looked the part of
Speaker 1: a three time All Star getting primed for a playoff run.
Speaker 1: He is two for two from Beyond the Night. He
Speaker 1: is very much better and Bed would probably be among
Speaker 1: the first to admit that, despite maintaining an impressive stat
Speaker 1: line this year, at least before the highus was different
Speaker 1: from him. But the plan was always to make sure
Speaker 1: the big man was ready when it mattered most, and
Speaker 1: that sure seemed to be the direction things were headed
Speaker 1: three months ago. It was at that stage where you
Speaker 1: don't bet again, still embid. That's what it makes us
Speaker 1: a real contender. And now with the seventy Sixers set
Speaker 1: to start anew and Beat is eager to pick up
Speaker 1: where he left off. Something that whenever other most Rated
Speaker 1: comes this is Posted Up with Joe Ellenbad. Welcome to
Speaker 1: the latest installment of Posted Up presented by Caesar's Online,
Speaker 1: a mini cast series here on the broadcast checking in
Speaker 1: on the seventy six Ers during the hiatus, with new
Speaker 1: episode's debuting every week. I'm Brian Seltzer. For each of
Speaker 1: the four seasons that Joel Embiad has played for the
Speaker 1: seventy Sixers, there's been a different narrative. His rookie year
Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen seventeen was the big breakout Lebron James
Speaker 1: Bob They are loving it at Wells Fargo Center. The
Speaker 1: following season, it was the great affirmation, as the seven
Speaker 1: footer showed the NBA at the impressionable age of twenty
Speaker 1: three the full might of his potential drives. The next year,
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen nineteen, the theme was Elite Refinement. We already
Speaker 1: knew em Beat was excellent, but with an increased workload,
Speaker 1: he proved he could do that much more. Joella Beat
Speaker 1: around one man throws it off the classrooimself. He slammed
Speaker 1: the Joella be the creative past and Jared Dudley in
Speaker 1: his way. This season was supposed to be the redemption,
Speaker 1: with Embid channeling the pain from last May's excruciating second
Speaker 1: Round Game seven exit against the Toronto Raptors to help
Speaker 1: fuel seventy six Ers championship run. So you're coming off
Speaker 1: one of the that's a really tough laws. Individually, How
Speaker 1: does this drive you? I'm sure he's going to motivate
Speaker 1: me a lot. I'm excited. I'm excited about all the
Speaker 1: walk I'm about to put in, and I still have
Speaker 1: a lot of potential. I feel like a lot of
Speaker 1: people haven't seen what I can really do. There's no
Speaker 1: question that in his forty four appearances leading up to
Speaker 1: the NBA suspending play in March, and Bead had some
Speaker 1: great moments. But in between these memorable performances, Embiid, relative
Speaker 1: of course, to his own supreme baseline, experienced ups and downs.
Speaker 1: Injuries were a factor that can't be denied. But at
Speaker 1: various times during the season, and Beat spoke openly about
Speaker 1: not feeling like himself. He touched upon that topic again
Speaker 1: after a recent workout at the seventy six Or training
Speaker 1: complex after the All Star Game. I'm menta, they just
Speaker 1: completely change first part of the season. It was enough
Speaker 1: to mustand and not even closed. Yes, and Bead looked
Speaker 1: like a refreshed, reinvigorated beast. After the All Star Break,
Speaker 1: he played in four full games and averaged twenty seven
Speaker 1: and a half points in twenty eight minutes, nearly four
Speaker 1: and a half points more in two and a half
Speaker 1: few minutes per game than before the break. And Bead
Speaker 1: was also shooting fifty three percent after the break from
Speaker 1: forty six and a half percent before it. And there
Speaker 1: was also this he was generating three more free throws
Speaker 1: made and attempted per game as well. Before the season's
Speaker 1: got shut down. I was enough bath to just you know,
Speaker 1: change the all and just go out and they could happen.
Speaker 1: This is the version of Joel Embiid the seventy Sixers
Speaker 1: will need should the season indeed resume. In the aftermath
Speaker 1: of COVID nineteen hitting the United States, Embad understandably took
Speaker 1: the situation pretty seriously. The sixers last game was against
Speaker 1: Detroit and a few days later one of the Pistons
Speaker 1: players returned to positive test. The first two months of
Speaker 1: the pandemic and Bid stayed mostly at home. Recently, he
Speaker 1: started to ramp up and said he's feeling really good.
Speaker 1: We'd be going. I did pretty much for the past
Speaker 1: four weeks, about six times a week, so you're trying
Speaker 1: to get a hand start, get body fall one of
Speaker 1: us com me. It's a picture that's becoming more and
Speaker 1: more clear, with the NBA and the Players Association having
Speaker 1: agreed upon the parameters for a return to play plan
Speaker 1: centered around games at the ESPN Wide World of Sports
Speaker 1: Complex in Orlando. During Joel Embiad's ascent into the upper
Speaker 1: echelon of superstars in the NBA, he's consistently used his
Speaker 1: platform to do good. He's made Susta Angel donations to
Speaker 1: the United Nations Children's Fund to eight at risk kids
Speaker 1: in his native Cameroon, and supported the Boys and Girls
Speaker 1: Club at Philadelphia. Then, in April, as the coronavirus was
Speaker 1: surging to its peak and Bead acted swiftly along with
Speaker 1: seventy six Ers managing partner Josh Harris and co managing
Speaker 1: partner David Blitzer, he pledged one point three million dollars
Speaker 1: to pen Medicine to provide critical support for COVID nineteen
Speaker 1: treatment efforts. Being one from where I grew up, you know,
Speaker 1: I saw a lot of struggle, and you know, being
Speaker 1: in my position where I have to change people's lives
Speaker 1: and to help people who know you just you just
Speaker 1: meet um. You know, I didn't even have to day
Speaker 1: twice about it. It's just the way I am. That's
Speaker 1: the way my parents raised me. That's the way I
Speaker 1: was brought up. And then added the fact that you know,
Speaker 1: going up in Africa, in Camerone and you know, all
Speaker 1: the struggle that I saw used all your wife from
Speaker 1: me to make that kind of jests. Like his teammates
Speaker 1: and Beat has had time to actually have time since
Speaker 1: the NBA's shut down, rarely want to lack for confidence.
Speaker 1: Joel is a huge FIFA video game head. He's a
Speaker 1: self proclaimed career mode guide meeting. He usually plays against
Speaker 1: the computer, but in Quarantine, he decided to mix things
Speaker 1: up a little bit and try Ultimate Team mode, which
Speaker 1: likes to assemble a roster of present and former grades.
Speaker 1: That's how my sister was playing it, and then I
Speaker 1: was like, who's gonna check it out? So I won't.
Speaker 1: And you know, you gotta build a team. And he's
Speaker 1: a bunch of I don't know, they're just you know, anybody,
Speaker 1: anybody can build a team. Man, every player can basically
Speaker 1: have can be waited ninety five. So he's not well
Speaker 1: football where you actually compete against a god where you
Speaker 1: choose a regular team and then you compete god. Because
Speaker 1: I've played online and I'm abutable the ultimate team experience
Speaker 1: was But I say, when he comes to that, he's
Speaker 1: just crazy. So I gave up on that because the
Speaker 1: guys on that they have, you know, teams that I've
Speaker 1: waited not do, not like he's in power. Well, like
Speaker 1: he's just and it's crazy. But yeah, I find out
Speaker 1: that I wasn't that good and I should just stick
Speaker 1: up to my career more and playing online. Another one
Speaker 1: of the beats just like us activities during this break
Speaker 1: was binging on the last Dance. He says he identifies
Speaker 1: with parts of Michael Jordan's story. So, h a lot
Speaker 1: of similarities. Um, and a lot of people I've told
Speaker 1: me that, and you know, I always quite about it,
Speaker 1: but I kinda saw that. Um, you know, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of similarities, and you know, I can also be
Speaker 1: I can also be that guy. I just need to,
Speaker 1: you know, keep putting in the walk and that's what
Speaker 1: I've been doing. But in order for Jordan to be
Speaker 1: the guy, he had to get help from other guys,
Speaker 1: and in the case of Joel Embiid, he's certainly surrounded
Speaker 1: by lots of talent. He and his teammates have used
Speaker 1: group chats and zoom to stay in touch. Fellow All
Speaker 1: Star Ben Simmons is one of the players who Embiad
Speaker 1: has been talking to on a regular basis. Of all
Speaker 1: the relationships and beats careers defined by, it's his connection
Speaker 1: with seventy six ers fans that stands out the most.
Speaker 1: When the team is in South Philly and he's at
Speaker 1: his peak, it's like a rock star returning for a
Speaker 1: hometown show. That makes us go. You know, when you're
Speaker 1: playing for you got to play holiday and you've got
Speaker 1: to do all. I'm missed up more than you notice.
Speaker 1: As for Rockday, you know, going on than fighting for them.
Speaker 1: While details about the NBA's return to play arrangement continue
Speaker 1: to get ironed out, we know the immediate solution won't
Speaker 1: involve crowds or home arenas and beach. Short term outlook
Speaker 1: is as practical as it is human. It also sounds
Speaker 1: highly motivated. Always still one is safe. But you know,
Speaker 1: as athlete, that's why not get pay full something to
Speaker 1: prove right enough? Feeling like whenever an unfortunate it comes,
Speaker 1: that's called to this has been posted up with Joel Embiid,
Speaker 1: presented by Caesar's Online. Sure to check out Lauren Rosen's
Speaker 1: article about Joel. It's also part of our post It
Speaker 1: Up Hiatus content series. Big thanks to Mark Zumov and
Speaker 1: Ryan Colletti for their help producing this episode. Our music
Speaker 1: is courtesy of Universal Production Music and the YouTube Audio Library.
Speaker 1: Next time and this is a promise we'll post up
Speaker 1: with Matisse Styple. When I first got to Philly, people
Speaker 1: recognize it. I hadn't even put on a Philadelphia seventy
Speaker 1: sixers jersey and there I was like, this is crazy.
Speaker 1: We were supposed to get to Matis this time around,
Speaker 1: but when Joel Embiad calls, you got to pick up
Speaker 1: that phone. I'm Brian Seltzer. Thanks for listening. Be sure
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