[Highlight] Joel Embiid loving the crowd’s “We want Boston” chant
No appendix. Declaration of independence. Joel vengeance. Sixers in 7
Getting this tattooed on me if they win it all lol
You guys should all get appendectomies if they win game 7
Fuck it I’m in
I’m trying to lose weight anyway fuck it
Sixers fans gonna throw their appendixes at Santa next
Is it appendices or appendixes?
Honestly, I have no idea, I just went with my phone’s suggestion
Now I want to re-read LOTR
Appendixi
Askin the wrong fan base honestly
HE WAS A LUSH AND HE DESERVED IT
Follow me, kids!
Wow deep cut 🤣
Nick nurse, prep these children!
I’m in
and left ankle surgery 👁️
I think it flows and sounds better if you reverse the second and third parts. But it’s a bar for sure.
You’re right!
6…7
I’m one of the rare Jokic AND Embiid fans. Kinda sad how much hate Joel always received from most of the general fan base due to him winning the MVP and ever since.
So yeah it will be supremely ironic if Joel eliminates the team that was the favorite to win the East in the first round, while Jokic and his team who were considered a contender to win a ring this year have been eliminated by a Wolves team that’s missing their superstar (Ayo) and top supporting guards (Ant & Divicenzo)
Yeah. Sometimes things swing one way or another all of a sudden
Btw, Jokic and Embiid are the Karina and Wonyoung of basketball
Never thought I’d see a K-pop reference on r/nba
Dang that would be beautiful. That would honestly rewrite so much of the narrative that’s been building.
I like Embiid. I just wrote him off because he seemed so unreliable. But I always low-key am rooting for Philly despite not trusting the process haha
I think you swapped Ayo and Ant there
Bars
Twilight of the Dead Mamba!
Kobe’s spirit returning from the netherlands and enthusiastically possessing Embiid for Joel’s first and Kobe’s sixth..
In the fifth game when Philly is leading 3-1, Embiid will turn on Super Saiyan Mamba mod on, grow to 10 feet and start sending unguardable fade aways from the logo while his hair is burning like an exploding super nova..
… on his knees, acknowledging the miracle that is happening in front of him, crying rivers in anguish and joy at the same time.
jesus lol
Philly relentless. Boston distressed. Trust the process. Sixers in 7!
Credit where due, that chant is cold af
Goddammit. Playoff basketball, man. Nothing like it.
The laugh to the determined fuck yeah was lit.
Yeah I can’t lie that was cool as fuck from the dude
At the very least, I hope we give them hell, make it a game. I don’t want to be blown out. Fully prepared to be hurt again, but I’m all in on this crazy train once more.
Please beat the Celtics, I need to hear a sad Bill cope. Also Joel deserves it for coming back this soon after his surgery
Embiid redemption arc is one of the best storylines I’ve ever seen, hope he pulls the comeback off
A lot of people don’t realize it but Embiid would legit be one of the all-time greats if he could have just stayed healthy.
A healthy Embiid was running away with the MVP in 23-24 averaging 35 and over a point per minute, on insane efficiency. We should have gotten 5ish years of that as his peak.
Similarly, Paul George was reaching consensus 3rd best player in the league before the stanchion injury. His expected leap had to wait years, until his OKC tenure. Another what-if, another shot at redemption. I’m rooting hard for these guys.
Joel being held together by duct tape, used gum and the dream of making Boston sports fans have to watch Red Sox baseball….
“Oh no my hometown team just lost now I’ll have to go watch one of my other 8 major hometown teams win at something else:( My life is so miserable as a fan of sports in this town with a thousand different teams to root for😫 I wish I lived in a city like say, Portland. So that if my team loses in embarrassing fashion to idk like the Spurs or someone random, at least I’ll have no other hometown team to root for during the entire offseason, and will have to think about that loss all the way until next season starts. Yeah, that sounds much better.”
The joke is that the Red Sox, like the Phillies, suck so far this year
HEY! We’re undefeated in the Mattingly era!
That was not embarrassing fashion. That was done by Atlanta last night. Portland actually exceeded expectations this season. It hurts because we were competitive and showed signs of being able to win games but struggled in long stretches. Learning and growing. No embarrassment as far as i am concerned.
The timbers are right here man….
At what point do Portland fans just pick teams outside of Oregon. Who is really going to be mad at you about that lol
It’s not that easy. I’ve tried multiple times with friends and family members. It just doesn’t stick. You need to have a true reason in your heart to be a fan of a team, at least for me and everyone I know.
I know it’s different down there in LA though🤣🤣
Funnily enough, I’m from the East Coast
I think most people default to Seattle for the sports we don’t have a local team for. There’s a lot of cross pollination between the cities, a lot of us either have lived in both or have family in both.
Personally, I love going and watching the Winterhawks but I root for the Kraken in the NHL.
heres hoping my sabres put them in the dirt tonight at least
But aren’t there a ton of Seahawks and mariners fans in Portland ?
I see a lot of SF fans here Oakland/LV too
Portland is nice though lol
Have you seen Cleveland? Do you know anybody that’s ever said let’s go vacation in Cleveland?
I don’t think either fanbase wants to bring baseball into this.
I don’t wanna jinx anything and this absolutely could come back and bite me but the energy does feel different this year
you got VJ which is a huge addition for a rookie
VJ going on his Jayson Tatum 2018 rookie playoff run
So can we expect him to dunk on Bron in the finals?
Shit, I’ll take that.
Sacrificing a poster by a rookie for beating OKC with no Luka and then the Spurs or Wolves?!
Let’s make it happen Bron!
Could you imagine the glazing that would go on in this sub and on National TV shows if the Lakers were to pull that off?
The glaze would be valid if they managed to do it ngl
Dang Lebron in the finals!?? Subscribed
He boomed me. He’s so good x4
But will Bron still play afterwards and add VJ to the list of players he wants to work out with in the summer?
He’s so good
He did it last night. He’s not going to let the other team go on a run whether it’s with his d or a timely clutch shot. He’s just too active and I feel like I’m the first to say this but I see the dog in him
I kinda want it for Embiid. He’s taken a whole lot of shit for years about not getting it done when it matters most (maybe warranted, maybe not). But what a great way to stick it to people who have written him off than to come back from surgery and wreck a decent Boston team.
Embiid with a concussion and broken eyeball took the Heat to 6 games. Any folk who doubts his will to play is just insane 😂
Also scoring 50 on one leg during the Knicks series 2 years ago
1 leg and half a face. Dude couldn’t blink 1 eye and was giving his all. As a Knicks fan, was giving him props….until he destroyed Mitch’s ankle that is.
Yeah he was tired and reckless and there are no excuses for him doing that. I’m hoping for a physical but clean rematch between the sixers and Knicks with a healthy Mitchell Robinson and Embiid with plenty of trash talk.
I don’t think people doubt his will to play.
Idiots do
People tend to confuse injury proneness with softness
Fwiw when embiid played the series was 2-2. He missed the first 2 games of the series coming back from the concussion and broken eye socket.
Thank you for properly rating this Boston team 🫡
I absolutely do not want it for Embiid.
It does feel like centering everything around Maxey and VJ makes the team feel less…moody I guess?
No expectations or pressure helps too
Maxey is a fucking STUD. I love that kid, and he’s gotten better every year.
Yes this is what happens when you draft high character guys
The Celtics are starting Neemias Queta against Embiid.
The first game Queta played in the 2022-2023 season was against Philly with Embiid playing that night. Queta got 3 fouls in 2 minutes. I started calling him Foul God after that because Queta really does like fouling. He hasn’t changed at all. So unless he does change in game 7, you guys probably win that match-up because Vooch/Garza isn’t doing anything either.
Garza came into the game and Embiid went after him right away. They might have to sign someone off the street.
There are several differences, but two of the main ones are:
They don’t have ANYONE that can defend Joel one on one even enough to hold on until a double comes. Hordors used to be able to defend until help came and also occasionally defend himself (with the threat of the double ever present). These guys simply cannot.
They can’t go five out the entire game. They have two shooting fives, but they don’t start and are absolutely trash on defense. And unlike Porzingus or Horford NONE of them can do anything at all in the midrange or around the rim.
Hold the door!
Al Hodorford
It also sure is nice having PG as the best wing on the team and not Tobias.
Also yes.
tatum might be The Anomaly but VJ is The Difference frfr
Philly has always had a good team in recent years, it’s always just been injuries at the worst possible time. Your own team’s injuries have been the only thing holding you back. This year you do have VJ who is definitely a big addition to the team.
Anyone who watches bball knows that if this sixers team was healthy all season they would have been closer to the top of the Eastern conference. If you guys manage to close out Boston, assuming you can actually stay healthy then the sixers would be my pick to come out of the eastern conference.
Sixers are playing with house money at this point
god I love seeing him smile. I miss his joy from when he was younger.
Going from the best player in the world to constant injuries, criticism and frustrations from your own fans (however warranted) and undue hate from non-fans has to be so demoralizing.
I really hope he gets a good playoff run
He should have been on heavier minutes restrictions earlier in his career due to his size. Wemby will probably experience this for most of his career, but if they handle it right he will dominate because of it.
Ah now fans are saying he should have played less. Literally can’t win
I ain’t a fan.
And yes, he should have. I’m suggesting that playing less minutes would have led to more winning instead of getting injured. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a single person suggest the opposite.
idk most of the rosters embiid has played with were generally historically bad whenever he sat. not sure 28 mpg gets us to as many post-seasons unfortunately
im just happy to be here now!
Greg Monroe :/
“I ain’t a fan.”
You cooked here king
I think seeing how Wemby’s career has been managed has been interesting, and I do think it’s part of Embiid’s legacy to a certain extent. If you have a generational big man you need to take care of them, even if it means prioritizing their health over winning in the short term to build a strong foundation.
Wemby and young Embiid both play(ed) to out of control and trying to make guard-like moves.
They are simply too damn big to be attempting euro-steps, wild spin moves, and other awkward dribble drive moves. They fall down too much and play too reckless for that size. It is very entertaining, and sometimes effective, but sadly it always ends the same - injury.
Guys that big need to be very balanced, fundamental, and almost cautious.
Minutes of course play a role, but imo, it is also related to play style, intensity, movement patterns. Goal should be to play as effective as possible with the least amount of injury risk or tissue damage, once you get to the last few minutes of a game or to finals or conference finals, then maybe they can bust out some of the more chaotic moves.
Giannis is the only big(ish) man who can do all that. He has an insane amount of body control and his center of gravity seems to be lower or something but he hardly flails or seems like he’s not in control. The insane amount of muscle probably helps too
Agreed, but he not as freakishly large. Giannis is more like Hakeem, and Hakeem could get away with all the guard like footwork. Something about their feet and core strength allows them to still be on balance and coordinated.
David Robinson was one of the few guys actually over 7 feet that could get away some of those things as well.
I don’t recall ever seeing this Wemby version of minutes restriction before, it’s always been “when you come back from injury we’ll ramp up and hopefully you don’t get… oh whoops”
I think we’ll see it a lot more with star Centers going forward
Going from the best player in the world to constant injuries
No, he went from injuries, missing the first 2.5 years of his career, to the best player in the world, to more injuries
Imagine if Wemby’s first NBA game was 26 October 2025, that’s Embiid.
I mean the demoralizing part is going from best to injuries. No one minds when you recover from injury and become an MVP
Some normie ass dude vaping next to me at G3 said Joel Embiid is just like Ben Simmons. I didn’t want to burst his cloud in my outrage. I’m sure he’s been dialing WIP all week.
His first few years playing were truly some of the most fun I’ve had as a fan. He had the same joy to his game as Maxey but he paired it with all the trolling and shit talking, it was so much fun to watch, especially after we were told over and over that he was gonna be a bust who would never play in the league. I’ll never forget the twitter beefs with Drummond and Whiteside or the Jalen Rose “81%” interview. Really hoping he can pull out a signature playoff series here, it would do so much for his legacy.
oh with drummond? lol, wonder if that affected anything since he’s on the squad now
Oh yeah, they used to go back and forth on social media all the time lol. They squashed the beef when Drummond signed with Philly the first time and they’re boys now, but when they first got Drummond everybody was wondering how it’d go bc they were always so vocal about each other in the past. This article has some more info too, such a fun era of basketball and social media. https://www.basketballnetwork.net/latest-news/andre-drummond-explains-his-beef-with-joel-embiid
I still maintain young Embiid was the perfect player from an entertainment standpoint. Dude talked trash in a way that felt like he was playing the perfect WWE villain but never went too far with it.
This dude was playing around with potential new tools to add to his already ridiculous arsenal on offense almost every single night. It legit felt like you were watching an NBA superstar putting it all together right in front of your eyes.
When he did the push ups i almost cried 🥲
Crazy seeing the confidence he’s playing with now compared to even G4 when he returned. Complete night and day. Makes me nervous as hell for G7.
Honestly I love this. Celtics definitely did not think it was gonna go to game 7.
All to play for now. Sixers have a lil momentum, let’s see if they can get over the Celtics hill
A lil momentum?
They just stormed back down 3-1, they got a lot of momentum.
A lot of momentum?
They just stormed back down 3-1, they got all the momentum.
All the momentum?
They just stormed back down 3-1, they ARE the momentum.
C-C-C-COMBOBREAKER
2-1 with Embiid and the only loss was Embiid’s first game back
By all means we shouldn’t be acting like Boston isn’t the clear favorite as a 2 seed with home court, but major props to the Sixers and major props to Embiid for making this such an exciting fight
Philly’s not a regular 7 seed. Most of the season their core players were out. They’re learning to play with each other during this matchup and that’s pretty scary
Learning to play together means they haven’t figured it out yet.
I’m not saying Philly’s weak, but they’re clear underdogs by all means
Either Philly finally breaks through that wall or they were given as much hope as possible just for Boston to snatch it away again last second. Either outcome is fun.
One outcome is severely less fun than the other.
I agree.
Let’s all have an anxiety fest tomorrow.
I will be coping by saying it was supposed to be a gap year
That’s an elite cope tbh
”team is playing with house money this year”
is so free for any team that exceeds their initial win prediction
Thank you, I’m prepping
This is me with the flyers right now
To be fair, classic Flyers
As a Sixers fan, I know which one is most likely happening… 🥲
It truly comes down to if Boston remembers how to shoot the basketball
Every media person has been slobbing all over Boston for months. I want Philly to destroy them.
I’ve said it before and I will keep saying it. They could never make me hate this man. The dudes fought through so much injury wise and personally and has had the worst luck of any star in all my time watching basketball.
Seriously: he’s had 2 first overall picks forget how to shoot/melt down, the whole colangelo fiasco, a lottery pick never pan out due to a soy allergy, broken face, appendicitis, stomach virus, Bell’s palsy or whatever it was that happened to his face. And there’s more I haven’t even added.
Good for you Joel, wrap this series up
Brother died in a car accident while he was rehabbing and Philly media uses it to criticize him.
Fuck you marcus Hayes.
broken face curtesy of a teammate nonetheless 🥲
think fultz got him with an elbow on a rebound. the bad luck has seriously been unreal. every single postseason including this one its something new. hopefully the appendectomy is all that happens and is firmly in the rearview mirror.
You are confusing the broken orbital bones. First was in the regular season when Fultz ran into him during a screen, that injury bled into the playoffs. The second one was at the end of the first round in a game that was basically garbage time when Siakam hit him with an elbow during a rebound. Caused him to miss the first 2 games of round 2 against the Heat. They lost both and ended up losing in 6
i sure am glad it happened so many times that im getting the various instances confused 😂
Dude’s career almost ended as soon as it started, and not just because of injury.
Imagine you’re 16 years old. You show up to a basketball camp on a whim, and suddenly you’ve got this NBA player saying you’ve got promise, who convinces you to move to America to chase your own NBA dream. Before you know it 4 years have passed in a blur, all that hard work pays off, and you’re selected 3rd overall in the NBA draft.
4 months later, you get a call that your 13 year old brother was struck by a truck and killed while walking home from school.
Every NBA success and failure of his has been measured against what he lost pursuing this career, because he believes his brother would still be alive had he never left home. People who clown him for showing emotion or crying after that Raptors playoff series are losers. It’s always been more than just basketball for Joel.
I totally missed the transition from when he was the lovable dude flirting with Rihanna on Twitter to when he was hated. I’ve never really understood why I was supposed to dislike him
Its the best moment of the playoffs. Philly fans absolutely delivered
I really hope they somehow win game 7 so we can hear them chant it again in game 3
We said it without Embiid.
we want all the smoke.
I really want the best for Embiid I hope the team comes in strong for game 6
I’ve got great news for you!
LMFAOOO I totally meant game 7 but that gave me a good laugh
Embiid redemption arc starts now.
Embiid’s always been a massive troll so this was probably hitting like crack.
Yeah people forget because all the hate and injuries changed him from being Troell Embiid to being sad and moody. He used to be one of the funniest trolls in NBA history. 2017-20 Embiid is on par with Draymond, Chuck, etc.
Remember him trolling Drummond, the KAT fight and Rocky celebration after getting ejected, airplane celebration vs. Toronto…
I think the 2019 Game 7 loss and the 2020⁄21 seasons are when he really changed sadly
Let’s gooo game 7
Where are the Boston fans victory lapping at
Tbf big difference between chanting we want Boston with no clear timetable for embiid to return and now but I love the smoke. Leggo game 7!
worrying about the bruins game today
At this point I just assume the bruins are gonna make me sad.
Man if sixers pull this off holy shit. Healthy embid maxey edgecomb PG lets go
Troell Embiid took over for a moment
I don’t love the guy, but this was hype as fuck
Maybe I’m stupid but would you mind explaining to me what this chat means. I just don’t get it
Against the magic when they beat them to secure the 7 seed, the crowd was chanting “we want boston,” then boston fans ended up chanting it back at them (in philly too, I think), now the philly fans are chanting it again here during the 3-1 comeback.
Who knew it was Joel’s appendix that was cursed…
That appendix really was the problem
Alright, I’m ready for Embiid to get a ring
Boston always on some bulsh*t, take advantage, now’s the time to break this curse yall
I AM JACKED UP FROM THIS
Rooting for him.
Celtics gonna feel the Tyrese Maxxing
If they win will they chant “We want New York” next 🤔
I feel like if they come out and handle business they have every right to chant it. I’m excited either way for the series against them.
If game 7 was in Philly 100%
hopefully it goes that way and there’s enough sixers fans in the Boston crowd to make it heard
We’re better on the road this year!
No. You just keep changing we want boston
would probably fire up both the knicks and the sixers lmao
WE WANT BOSTON vs. TRAE YOUNG SUCKS
He sniffed, liked what he smelled, laughed, then said fuck yea.
I love this for him
FTC
Look into the camera smells like a new meme incoming.
The league is way better with Embiid playing
Sports
I just want Philly to blast the celtics so I can see the mental boomed Mazulla post game interview
This is the man in the arena.
This is what the playoffs are all about
When bro fell and started doing pushups i knew that game was over😂
Embiid’s legacy/narrative has totally shifted these last 2 games. It’s been awesome
I will forever defend this guy. Man wants nothing more than to play and win in Philly. He’s just had both the worst and weirdest injury luck maybe ever
Fairly new to the NBA, somebody explain this to me, aren’t they already playing Boston?
oOoO i forgot abt boston fans chanting it. well that aged poorly 🥴
The Last Dance
I remember back in 17 during the Finals our fans were chanting Cavs in 7 while at home against the Warriors. The camera showed Kyrie holding up 7 fingers and I was convinced we were gonna run it back and embarrass them yet again.
Boy was I wrong.
Dont let this distract you from the fact that half of Tatum Brown and Pritchard’s offensive success comes from egregious push offs.
I, too, would have liked it if Boston showed up for that game.
It’s JOEVER.
Can someone explain the chant?
I am LOVING this back and forth between the Celtic and Sixer fans. I already know what I’m doing Saturday night, hopefully it isn’t a blow out.
Dude’s jacked my god