Embiid has beef | Thunder & Cavaliers rolling
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Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily for November 4th, 2024. Coming up, Joel Embiid has beef in the locker room, Drake is on his worst behavior in Toronto, and we make our picks for next week. Good morning, everybody. Good morning, S. Good morning, Zena. Welcome back. Man, we had a crazy weekend. It feels like there's so much stuff happening every single night in the NBA. And there's even stuff happening with guys who aren't playing. Joel Embiid has gotten into an altercation with a Philadelphia columnist who wrote... What I can only describe is a disrespectful piece about Joel not playing. I'm not going to give this guy any more attention than he needs, but there was a scuffle in the locker room.
Joel Embiid confronted this columnist, and according to reports from the locker room, shoved him. This is a big deal. Players shouldn't shove media people, and maybe media people shouldn't you know, make personal attacks on players who are injured or have degenerative conditions in their knees. Zena, you know, you're in locker rooms just about every week talking to players. You ever seen anything like what we're hearing coming out of that locker room?
No, and rightfully so, because I don't think writers usually say things that cross the line in the way that this one particularly did. I mean, it had nothing to do with the point that was trying to be portrayed, which is this player should be playing, etc. Feel how you want to feel, but I have no idea how someone's child and late brother has anything to do with that topic.
You know, it's an old school sort of throwback mentality, you know, and equating fatherhood to playing basketball as is pretty ridiculous. It's childish.
And again, like we all just know better at this point. It's antiquated. That's what it is. It's just this like ancient way of thinking. And it's so ridiculous that this gets brought up. And I think the thing that I have, the issue that I take with this in general is how we got to this point.
Right.
The article got taken down because it received a lot of criticism. You know, obviously, Joel Embiid himself a couple of days ago mentioned that specific article in his media press conference. And so for the Sixers or the NBA to not step in at that point, to me, that's what was surprising. And so I'm I'm more curious about what will happen long term with different situations like this, because this isn't the first situation where a reporter writes something very, very wrong. And it probably won't be the last. So what's the way the NBA sort of corrects this? Right.
Well, I don't know that the NBA can do anything about what people are going to write or what people are going to say. And I don't know that this guy shouldn't get locker room access because we don't like what he has to say or anything like that. Totally. Yeah. But for me, I'm looking at the short term sort of consequences for Joel Embiid. Like he's likely looking at a suspension for this. And rightfully so. He was out of. Um, but someone along the way, everyone failed. And I don't know like where we can point fingers. Maybe we start at the newspaper. We start at the editor. We start at the writer. Um, but, but that being said, I just, I don't blame Joel Embiid for being upset. And I'm not saying he should have done what he did. But I understand completely.
There's a difference between protocol in the professional workspace and what happens when you F-A-F-O. If you're way too online, you don't know what that means. But that's exactly what happened. And what's so ironic about this, and this has nothing to do with it, but it's similar. How many people had grievances with this whole fatherhood storyline with LeBron and Bronny, right? And just bringing that up in general. And... wanting to celebrate that, but people being like, no, we don't want to talk about it, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. And then people realizing like, no, it's actually way out of line to bring up his fatherhood and bring up Joel Embiid's fatherhood in relation to his basketball times.
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