Joel Embiid comes up to say hi to Nikola Jokic after the game
These guys greet each other like old coworkers and yet their individual fanbases kinda hate each other lol
I think Jokic would hate a significant portion of his biggest fans
i think that goes beyond jokic and to every star tbh
I wonder if there’s a reverse of “never meet your heroes”
“Never meet your fans.”
you put a h in ate by accident
The MVP discourse got super toxic. Nuggets fans and Sixers fans wanted their guy to get the individual award. I do think each fan base respected the other’s greatness though. Now the collective fan hate has coalesced around SGA and his forearm shivers.
I don’t think there’s much hate these days tbf. The whole Jokic vs Embiid debate is over, and I personally really like the Sixers current roster.
Jokic and Embiid when they see each other : 🥰
Jokic and Embiid fans when they see each other: 🤬
I feel like the hate comes mostly from biggest fans
Off-topic, but it’s actually crazy to see 6’11 and 7’0 being an actual difference.
It’s probably a combination of Embiid’s hair and Jokic slouching a bit. Embiid also might be a bit closer to 7’1, idk
I’ve always felt like him being just 7’0 is a lie like ain’t no way Ayton of Deandre is as tall as this guy
Idk, Ayton is tall. Embiid just looks taller since he’s also just huge and like the other guy said, his hair style makes him look taller.
Here is a pretty decent pic showing the two standing next to each other in a match and they look the same height, at most Embiid is like a quarter inch or half inch taller but Ayton is also slouching more. Hard to find a better example.
https://media.gettyimages.com/id/1076566386/photo/philadelphia-76ers-v-phoenix-suns.jpg?s=594x594&w=gi&k=20&c=M1xGxu35jFpNoWgL7C4ehnwRlEDPLp5_4sggSUhob4E=
And this is the best pic I could find of Embiid and Jokic standing straight next to each other:
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Definitely looks like Embiid is 1, almost 2 inches taller than Jokic. So Embiid could very well be 7’1”, Jokic 6’11” and Ayton 7’0”.
A good tell if the 2 faces each other (and wearing similar thickness shoe soles) is their eye levels. You can see here that they are at least 1” difference and look a bit closer to 2”.
True
Its like 5’11 guys standing next to 6’0 guys lol
Gotta love these dudes loving on each other
when a guy’s loving you…
Game recognizes game
Despite the toxicity from the fans the mvp races between the two were some phenomenal basketball
Toxicity is good for the game. How boring if all fan bases got along
Toxicity is good for the game.
I absolutely hate sports “fandom.”
You don’t need to be a toxic pos to be entertaining
Hmm now who is being toxic? Thats what I want to see, passion!!
Seek help
What kind?
I wonder if Jokic sympathizes more with Embiid these days now that he felt what it was like to be sidelined for so long with an injury, a knee one at that.
Embiid has one of the saddest careers ever. Felt like injuries robbed us of one of the greatest players ever.
Agreed, however since he didn’t play at all his first two years due to injury and only played like 30 games his rookie season, the third season after he got drafted, it’s a miracle he became as good of a player as he did. That injury risk was a big reason he fell to the sixers at 3
Being soft will do that also to be fair
If you call Embiid soft just because of being a free throw merchant you are either delusional, don’t watch basketball or both
No I don’t care about the free throws. He is just soft, no way around it unfortunately. It is what it is
If you had experienced any combination of the injuries Embiid has pushed/fought through during his career you wouldn’t even be able to get up and go to the bathroom at night on your own
Hmm I don’t know, I tore both my acls at once and still walked to the toilet at night
You didn’t RUN to the toilet? You sound soft
Also thanks for confirming the troll, unless you’re one of the few medically documented cases of a bilateral simultaneous ACL tear ever
Oh I could have ran but that would be pointless wouldn’t it
brother, how???
Power of lying
It’s all mental man. You can push through pain
i realize now that was unclear but i meant how the fuck did you tear both acls
He’s played through injuries in every single playoff series he’s been in since 2020
How well did he play?
Pretty well, he scored 50 points with bell’s palsy. Almost as impressive as tearing both ACLs at once and walking to the bathroom
Almost by not quite
Jokic and Joel gives me that Dirk/TD vibe, they compete every time they get a chance but theres still respect.. and then Giannis is like the KG to their Dirk/TD.
Embiid only ever disrespected & trolled low skill rim running centers (Drummond, Whiteside etc), he’s always had good things to say about Jokic.
Why would Jokic hate Embiid? They only play against each other at the Olympics.
Their competitors. Show a little spite, weak ass dudes. Dillon Brooks would never
this dude Jokic needs to keep growing out his hair
looks so much less like a thumb
Hey remember me? I used to play basketball
“Let’s see you try to duck me now mfer”
Soft. Maybe I’m old school, we are enemies on an off the court
Lol have you ever played anything at such a level that that attitude even mattered? Or are you just the biggest tryhard in the gym?
I play rugby, so maybe playing aggressive game like that kind of alters your thoughts of opponents. I don’t have to try hard in the gym
Yeah but at what level? Are your off the field enemies just dads farming beer guts working 9 to 5 lol
Let’s just say high enough level that requires many years to get there.
Let’s call that at best grade 1 at the field behind the RSL club.
Are weekend warriors enemies weekdays as well or just weekends in your experience?
Enemies for life
Try harder in the gym and you might just beat them
Excellent advice
https://youtube.com/shorts/eYQ5mCi9VSM?si=vhNy83xkgDBdyqtz
Look at Shai man, he want no part of that buddy buddy shit
He’s laughing lol
Exactly that’s what I want to see. Laughing at Jokics failed block attempt.
Sounds like a miserable existence to live life through such a short-sighted and uneventful lens.
Look at Shai man, you might think he cares more about fashion than ball, SOFT. Keeping that fur nice and clean at the FT line, SOFT. Idk if it gets SOFTer than kicking out your legs every time you go up and then acting like somebody shot you… SOFT.
SOFT. Maybe I’m just old school, doing Victoria’s Secret commercials, we are men and my Reddit comment proves it!
/s to everyone but this clown upbeat-bat2226
Hmm starting to think you might be on the soft side as well. It’s not that serious, people are allowed to be soft.