The NBA is run by Woke Leftist that are Soft. When Laundry Jones took over the Hawks he said he wanted to focus on "Player Empowerment" & that mentality lead to firing Hawks Coach Nate McMillan who took them to the Eastern Finals & had the best winning % for the Hawks since Larry Drew. Nate McMillan even said it's hard to coach these last few generations for obvious reasons. Again the real problem is these Players act like they are Entitled & if they don't get there way they act like Victims. They also put themselves ahead of the game & don't have any drive to compete & win. They just want to be famous & get paid & they are extremely soft. You talk about Load Management well just look at who started that crap, the Super Woke Leftist Gregg Popovich who uses the NBA Platform to push Political Agendas. The NBA used to be about Sports & a Uniting realm but Leftist in the NBA ruined it like they've done with Gaming, Hollywood, Media, Music Industry, just about everything been used by SJWs to push agendas.
@@page8301 agreed but he has also been screeed by the refs and injuries …..talent for talent embiid is better but jokic is the better player due to avaibsliyl but to sit here say he didn’t deserve e that mvp and the year before is insane
I can’t exactly blame him for not wanting to play for Camaroon cause, they probably weren’t making the Basketball Olympic events to begin with. I mean look at Luka he made the finals and even his team couldn’t make the cut. But telling the President of France if you get citizenship in the country you’ll play for them and then just deciding to play for Team USA after getting your citizenship is a dick move.
USA Basketball Team should be grateful Embiid opted to play for the USA Basketball Team. Don't forget USA defeated France by a mere Point. Had Embiid opted to play for France, who do you think can stop Embiid scoring at least 20 points against the US Team? France woul have been the Gol medalist
@@kaysheye7784 Not even close. Why are they always calling those ticky-tack fouls on Embiid while he's breaking ft records and playing great in easy games and sit-out challenges? Embiid isn't even half a basketball player that Joker is. You're just delusional. It's clear who has the ring.
@@soloistdeve you're arguing about something that literally happened, he was runner up 2 straight years in 2021 and 2022. In his MVP season (2022-23), he had multiple highlight games such as bringing the Sixers back from a 20 point deficit in the 4th against the Bucks, dropping 50 against the Celtics AND giving Jokic the business with 47/18/5. He was leading MVP candidate in 2021 before he got hurt and leading MVP candidate last season in 2023-24 before he got hurt
Embiid has no shame at all, its just so crazy how he would openly say some shit like that, doesnt he have a media trainer to tell him what to say and not to say, shit like this affects his brand, his merch, heck his LEGACY.
The Sixers as an organization are as tone deaf as it gets. He's spent his whole career with the Sixers, so it makes sense. I'm disappointed in him that he still can't rise above it. I'm hoping the team's young star, Maxey, grows into a more reliable star that Sixers fans can get behind more easily.
Embiid wasn't hurt when he scored 50 points. That's his story for naive people like you. He plays well against Jokić because he wants to prove himself as a player. Unlike him, Jokic has nothing to prove to anyone. His results say it all. Embiid plays the worst road games in Denver and that's why he avoids those games for years. Jokic alone dominated the American national team at the Olympic Games, and Embiid showed that he cannot play a serious role in a good team.
France would have been the Gold Medalist had Embiid decided to play for them. France would provide him with set plays making it easier to score. Not to mention the French twin towers.
Yeah you’re just on here talking I watched that game and Jokic went 7-17 with 17 points . Embiid went 8-11 with 19 points, and they played in France so it was nobody’s home floor to get an advantage on. Jokic just dominates anybody that’s smaller than him, the second he gotta face Embiid or even Wemby he struggles. Embiid literally started that last come back to put Serbia away with the Joker as the primary defender.
@@saucegodnas7318 With the whole Serbian team's support & set plays Jokic surely plays well. Serbia depends on him. Embiid had none of those set plays. It's Lebron show remember. He got to outshine everyone in the USA Team.. But in the NBA I saw how Embiid outplayed Jokic one on one. Despite Embiid's not so good health, Slow footed Jokic saw for himself whose better one on one.
Nba salaries shouldnt be on a yearly basis but on games played. That way if they miss a game, thats a chunk of money deducted from their salaries. Players will then actually TRY to STRENGTHEN their bodies to avoid injuries. Not just show up to practice and go home, but actually hit the gym and do strengthening exercises. Their mindsets are now "oh shoot did i get injured? Meh I'll still get paid anyway" coz superstars know that they wont get traded
It's an interesting idea, but I'm sure the CBA probably has a clause requiring contracts to be based on the full season. Maybe not, since I think they still have 10-day contracts. If there's some wiggle room there, though, some ballsy GM might just go up to a player with a number in his head, divide it by 82, and say, I'll pay you this much per game. We'll cut you a check for that amount after every game you play. But you don't play, no check. That would be very spicy indeed.
Nice idea but I’d tweak a few things A) For injuries that keep them out 10+ days they get 50% of every game missed, 60% if the timeline is over a month. If they’re out for the season they still get 100%. B) Certain personal issues still get paid 75%, which would be outlined in the CBA. If a player has a legitimate reason, ex. the birth of a child, they shouldn’t be harshly penalized for it _provided this reason get verified beforehand_
@@Phoenix-vr6bv That makes sense, except that injuries that keep a player out for the season have to happen during a game or during practice or during team activities or travel. I wouldn't want to pay 100% for a player crashing his McLaren while going 120 in a 45 zone.
Embiid is the biggest fraud mvp ever. He will never be regarded as a top big man in basketball history. I don’t even think he deserved to be in the hall of fame tbh. He’s a choker, dirty player and soft. He’s also shameless.
@@Bixeqe2 I’m from Cameroun how I’m racist? And ibaka is from Congo. We talking about basketball. I love joakim Noah siakam or all the young Cameroonian players Yves missi, koloko, cholnche
I spent 20+ years in the Army. I'm not an athlete by any means, but a large number of the people that I served with, especially in the Airborne units, were. People running 6 minute miles with 35 pounds on their back wearing boots wasn't uncommon. There was no such thing as "load management". You perform when it counts, period. If you need to "rest", that's what weekends are for. And guys do that for their whole 20 years, with a smile. Look at the Ranger Regiment: around 1500 infantrymen across three battalions who take on some of the toughest direct-action missions the Army has. Almost all of them ARE elite athletes, hitting weights, cardio, swimming, carrying loads, whatever. If you take a day off in a leadership role, you WILL be replaced. If you are a machine gunner (a prestigious job, despite the 20 extra pounds of weapon and ammo) and you hand it off, you will NEVER get it back. "Load management" would rightly be viewed as giving up on your teammates and letting them carry you. Are there times when you get injured? Of course. But there are techniques to build up your musculoskeletal system that can reduce those chances. These players need to have some kind of year-round conditioning program,, that would probably bring almost immediate benefits.
@@TYLOTYLOTYLO They jumped out of airplanes carrying 100+lbs of equipment and hitting the ground at 13+mph several times a month and ran multiple miles on concrete wearing body armor in boots. Their bodies take way more abuse than playing 30 minutes 80 times a year.
I served my country in the carribean. Hell yes I remember those runs with my rucksack stuffed with 40 lbs on my back and I didn't slow down. Most I did was try to encourage one of my now fallen squad mates to keep going as he sprained his ankle but yea....
Im not a doctor, or a physical therapists or anything like that, but maybe the reason players are getting injured playing basketball is because their bodies arent used to... playing basketball
As a former athlete and physical therapist I Agree. If you dont play enough your body does not develop the resilience and endurance it needs...this generation of athletes are lazy...they have too many distractions and too much money they cant wait to enjoy...
simple solution, hit their wallet. not available to play? reduced salary. injured? reduced salary. personal reasons? reduced salary. when i mean reduced, i mean a good percentaged. fans pay a price to see the stars play, they dont show up and next time they think twice about going.
What is really confusing here is that today's NBA is less physical yet players are more injured than to the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s. With how the game evolved, more spacing and less physical, yet more players experience injury. Weird!
And don’t forget they have modern medicine sports medicine.. physical therapists.. they have so much more money going into health today than ever before and these dudes are softer than ever!
it’s because these players give their body up to sell foul calls. before like 2011, no matter how hard you sold contact, it was only gonna be called a foul if it was a foul. now players like embid sell every ounce of contact they get so a foul will get called, thus giving up your body to the dude who “fouled” you, and he didn’t foul you, he didn’t want to foul you, so he’s not taking any impact or energy off of your body. so quite literally these dudes are not bracing for impact, thus causing fractures, torn ligaments, concussions etc. strictly because they’re more invested in getting a whistle rather than saving their own body.
Watch how they react to contact. They basically throw themselves down towards the court. It's not gonna do your body any favors, especially when you do it ~80 games/season
Kids dream about playing in the pros. It would be an honor to be in such a position. Those who truly love the game, would do anything to go out and play all 82 games. Embiid and Kawhi should retire.
He hid his own failure behind the mental illness of another man and has pushed virtually every teammate under the bus at one moment or other, it doesn't matter how much points he stuff against the Pistons, the wizads or the Raptors. Hating him because of his injuries is crazy, people should be hating him because of his moral failings.
Do you remember when everyone knew Blake Griffin wouldn't fly like that forever? You could tell. It's not healthy to throw your body around and into contact like that. At least Blake knew how to land...i think a lot of Scouts really dropped the ball and saw the potential over the darker truth which is that Joel Embiid has lacked a lot of professionalism and discipline from day 1. His body was NEVER ready and that's not just bad luck. As a pro athlete, your #1 job is to maintain your physical health (your workforce) and there are techniques to do that. Yet he doesn't know how to eat, fall, land or take contact. That's why he's always injured!! Don't believe me? Go watch some content on "how to avoid injuries in basketball" and come back to apologize ;) He could be their "don't" model while prime LeBron or prime Shaq would be fantastic examples for "do". They never landed out of control, out of balance or tried to stick a landing they couldn't. They didn't turn on a standing foot or intentionally land on someone else. Okay, hustle plays don't count, my point remains😅
2:08 no one has ever thought Embiid destroyed Jokic. He doesn’t even play against the Nuggets. I’m all for bagging on Embiid but do it with facts, not false storylines
Embiid did have a monster game against Jokic and the Nuggets in early 2023 in Philadelphia. Having said that, that was just ONE GAME. Most of the time Embiid doesn't even play against the Nuggets, especially in Denver.
@@chipmillard5043 The guy literally sits out games before the Denver match-up to save up energy/stamina. Then he goes all-world to show off how good he is. Then proceeds to miss multiple games after the match-up and never play in Denver. Guy is a clown.
What people also fail to mention is that in those "load managed" years, Tim Duncan still mostly played more than 65 games. In 2014, when they won the chip, he only missed 8 games. At 37. Kawhi at 31 only played 52 games. Tony Parker in 2014 at the same age played 68. Manu also. So yes, while Pop was sitting out his starters they were still playing close to if not more than 80% of the games.
Also, the Spurs are always deep in the playoffs, and their superstars represent their countries in international competitions and they're doing this for their whole NBA careers.
The thing with the Spurs, is that the star players were SELFLESS. They weren't stat-padding when they went back onto the court. Pop would play his key players sometimes 25 minutes in the latter half of their careers. Today's load-managed players will miss a back-to-back game, or the following, but will put in 40 minutes against a cream-puff opponent like Washington or Detroit to fluff-up their stats. This is something that Joel Embiid ALWAYS does. Which is how maintains such a high scoring average even when he barely plays.
Pop's method worked because he was doing it the right way. In the 2013-2014 season when they won it all, Tony Parker led the team in minutes played - 29.4. Nobody played more than 30 minutes a game. THAT is how you rest your players and load manage. But players like Kawhi or Embiid like pretty numbers. They'll happily average 40 minutes a game for two weeks, get good averages, get injured, and rest for two months. What's better than not needing to work at all and still collecting millions of dollars of salary? Adam Silver needs to tell LeCunt to shut the fuck up and call the shots for once. Hit players like these where it hurts the most. Remove guaranteed contracts. Add clauses whereby a drastic percentage of their salary will be null and void if they refuse to play/get injured too many times. Imagine being a fan, paying for the tickets with your hard earned money, and showing up at a game, only to realize the player you came to see decided to give you the finger and take the day off.
Didn’t have loser principles when Kawhi hit THAT SHOT. Or when Ben Simmons threw up a free layup. Or when Harden went missing in game 7 against Celtics. Embiid only ever issue has been injuries in the playoffs.
Like to also point out, he shot 21-23 at the line. Once you see his big number games are fluffed-up by shooting 20+ free-throws, it is not that impressive.
His body isn't made for this and he has never seemed to put extra effort into conditioning but i won't let him off the hook with that. Didn't he play the all-star game and then miss weeks worth of sixers games immediately after it? Missed 43 games last year, was hurt for playoffs, then goes to the Olympics? Now already missing the beginning of the season? Don't give me the 'love of country' argument because dude got his citizenship from France in July 2022, so he could play for them if he didn't get US citizenship in time. He wanted to play in the Olympics and sure he would rather for America but only because you are nearly guaranteed a gold medal. if that didn't happen he would have played for France to give it his best shot. Has nothing to do with the love of any country it was for himself. Truth is this dude treats sixers as his side hustle, all-star games and Olympics and twitter are his main focus and his full time job. Sixers season ticket holders should ask for their money back for any game he doesn't play at home. Hurt or not. They extended him through 2029 now, nobody reasonable thinks he has any chance of playing basketball in five years, he cannot even play in October right now after playing a tournament in August. In 2029 he is slated to make 69 million that season. Not a shot he plays a single game. I am certain he will be fine to suit up for the All-star game this February though. lol
Only eight teams in the playoffs would see a lot of this load management stop and make the regular season more important generally. Have the teams finishing 7-14 in each conference playing best-of-seven 'qualifiers', with the losers going into an exclusion bracket for the next season along with the team that finishes 15. Any team in the exclusion bracket can't enter the playoffs, their season will be all about getting the best seeding in the qualifiers.
Problem is load management is not only not effective, it actually increases injury. Several doctors have written about this. The human body is not meant to have that much weight put on the joints. Therefore, you have to ensure your body is used to the impact playing basketball will have on your knees. When you rest, don’t practice and then go all out and play hard, then rest and then go all out again, your body doesn’t have the proper conditioning to stay level. The massive ups and downs create more strain on a players body. Look at the previous generations in the nba. You never had star players getting injured with this regularity. Not even close. They practiced hard, played hard and therefore the body got conditioned for the season. I don’t understand how they haven’t figured out that the entire concept is literally doing the opposite of what is intended
Damn must be nice to be Leonard, missing work almost half the time and never getting fired. Joel and him would never had made it in the 90s nba. Or leflop
Spurs already have doing a loud management with Wemby. Seeing the games you can tell, no matter what Wemby is doing he never plays more that he needs to.
One last word about load management :nobody said a thing about Pop s policy ,now everybody has a rant when it's for Kawhi Leonard .I think that says everything .Beyond that NBA star players are very well paid to play a game they love so it's very normal they are expected to produce every night.So sad some players didn't understand that.Excellent video
Embiid would be less prone to injury, if unlike nearly all other centers in the league, didn't spend half his shot attempts baiting for foul calls and careening to the ground like a baby giraffe. Seriously, if he would just cut that crap out, he wouldn't be so injury prone, and the kid's wouldn't have to call him "Mr Glass".
Well I think this argument is absolutely flawed from the beggining. I get what you were trying to say in the end, but I don't agree with the approach. For starters, Embiid admiting he'll most likely never play another back to back isn't a "losers" mentality, but actuality the harsh reality he's been dealt with. I see it as being honest and realistic, instead of being either a liar or a delusional fool. To me this came as no surprise at all, since I already knew he would never be able to play another back to back from the moment his surgery last year was announced. The meniscus it's a very complicated subject and people like Embiid and Kawhi who had more then one surgery there, will forever be faced with a degenaritive condition that will limit their abilities. This is "basic" medical science and anyone with a bit of knowledge about that type of injury and especially about the procedure they chose to do last season (which was a short term band-aid for the playoffs and seen by many medical staff as a bad one when considered the long-term knee health), will most likely tell you that there's no way in hell that his knee will ever be able to whitstand the NBA's workload with back to back's. Thinking otherwise is simply being either uninformed or unrealistic. Sorry Henry, I do really appreciate your videos, but this one deserved a lot more research and a lot less of Stephen A Smith and Kendrick Perkins blabbing on their ignorance.
Sooo… back in the day the guys just played and didn’t over play/train etc. They played 82 games a season most seasons. Now they’re rehabbing teenage injuries.
NBA management should give their players the same contracts that NFL management gives their players. There has to be some motivation for NBA players to play hard and not go into cruise control while putting up your legs. This would prevent players from just going through the motions.
It up to maxie & Lowry. For Paul George n Embid to not show up 2 a home opener on their own home floor tells you exactly how the rest of the season is going to go. Those players will collect $100 million dollars this year just to not play.
Joel has himself to partially blame, always taking those spinning fadaway jumpers like he's a small wing and flopping around like a damn fish at every chance. When you're that massive and that predisposed to injuries that kind of play will alway catch up to you.
Am I missing something? I thought the minimum games played rule only applied to the end of the season awards, not the All-Star game but 2 different times this video mentioned how Embiid and Kawhi would not have qualified if the rules were implemented years earlier.
Listen he is injury prone …dude has more heart playing with on leg and one eye against the Knick’s and the refs cheating for the other team that series
I'd be fine with it if there was actual data that it worked. Just as there's precisely zero data to back up innings limits. Guys seemed healthier when they threw 250ip a year. The Japanese throw literally every day and their injuries are no more common. I'm just not convinced it's helped at all and it's not impossible to believe it's actually having a negative effect on player health.
They get millions and millions and to play ball and they don't want to play ball. About 90% of us regular people will never see that kind of financial freedom and work at dead end jobs.
I read an article once that said all the new strength and conditioning regimes that have become fads are actually hurting players' durability. I think it said that the proper conditioning for a basketball player is just lifting weights and running. There's also the AAU argument, that young players in the pipeline play so many games as children that when they make it to the NBA, they have the bodies of guys who have played 5-6 years. You maybe wouldn't think that's what going on with Embiid, growing up in Cameroon. But he has a big body. He's heavy and running puts a lot of strain on his knees and ankles. You could maybe think there might be something in his upbringing, nutritional or cultural or something. But his attitude just doesn't help him at all.
Embiid has never had a work ethic. He got by because of sheer size and athleticism. If he had any heart he could have been the next Wilt Chamberlain but Embiid is just another soft ass player that will make half a billion dollars without accomplishing anything noteworthy
problem with load management, is that the floor is unbeatable. you rest for 30 games, and you slip your ankle due to a wet part of the court, before even getting subbed in. hypothetically speaking, it makes sense, but it's not. it's more of, when are you gonna get by the grim reaper to be honest.
The NBA is run by Woke Leftist that are Soft. When Laundry Jones took over the Hawks he said he wanted to focus on "Player Empowerment" & that mentality lead to firing Hawks Coach Nate McMillan who took them to the Eastern Finals & had the best winning % for the Hawks since Larry Drew. Nate McMillan even said it's hard to coach these last few generations for obvious reasons. Again the real problem is these Players act like they are Entitled & if they don't get there way they act like Victims. They also put themselves ahead of the game & don't have any drive to compete & win. They just want to be famous & get paid & they are extremely soft. You talk about Load Management well just look at who started that crap, the Super Woke Leftist Gregg Popovich who uses the NBA Platform to push Political Agendas. The NBA used to be about Sports & a Uniting realm but Leftist in the NBA ruined it like they've done with Gaming, Hollywood, Media, Music Industry, just about everything been used by SJWs to push agendas.
The incentive structure of the NBA, like other professional sports, is all about success in the playoffs. Very little of rhe regular season matters outside of qualifying for the playoffs. Tennis and golf have faced this issue for decades - many prominent players choose to only play in major tournaments, with higher prestige and payouts. Why get your players injured in the regular season only for them to miss time when it really counts? "Load management" is a cover, a "marketing term", for this reality. Major League baseball counters this to a far greater extent than the NBA. The top 2 teams in each league get first round playoff byes, and avoid having to play a short series. The NBA could at least increase the reward for finishing the regular season at the top or near top of the conference.
193 millions for 3 years ? Joel is the happiest player in the NBA, je got a monster contract, plays less than 40yo LBJ or CP3....he is living his best life. A ring ? He doesnt care about it and I don't think he has the skills to carry the Sixers in the playoffs anyway. Being CONSISTENTLY terrible in playoffs is not bad luck, it's just that he doesnt have it.
It's a travesty to sit out players when the cost of watching games in the arena is very high. Was Coach Pop wrong to rest his starters for certain games? Absolutely. But no one called him out because in the end he won championships, and in other cases, it benefited stars who were juicing their stats to have a "greater" legacy. The money has also gotten too good so players try to extend their playing years even though in reality they are no longer playing to compete, but to secure their retirement. We can't blame them because the culture all around the league has welcomed this mentality. The traditional media is also to blame for persisting on creating drama because it generates engagement. As for Embiid, he should agree to a pay cut if he continues to sit out games. When he missed two whole seasons even before he started playing, that was already a red flag. If he were actually self-aware, fans would be more sympathetic to his situation. But these days players keep on opening their mouths to say something when nothing needs to be said. Or sometimes flat out lie to avoid taking accountability. Just play and let your play do the talking.
BREAKING: Joel Embiid & Paul George ruled OUT for Season Opener!
WHAT!!!
Damn that was quick 😅😅😅😅
The NBA is run by Woke Leftist that are Soft. When Laundry Jones took over the Hawks he said he wanted to focus on "Player Empowerment" & that mentality lead to firing Hawks Coach Nate McMillan who took them to the Eastern Finals & had the best winning % for the Hawks since Larry Drew. Nate McMillan even said it's hard to coach these last few generations for obvious reasons. Again the real problem is these Players act like they are Entitled & if they don't get there way they act like Victims. They also put themselves ahead of the game & don't have any drive to compete & win. They just want to be famous & get paid & they are extremely soft. You talk about Load Management well just look at who started that crap, the Super Woke Leftist Gregg Popovich who uses the NBA Platform to push Political Agendas. The NBA used to be about Sports & a Uniting realm but Leftist in the NBA ruined it like they've done with Gaming, Hollywood, Media, Music Industry, just about everything been used by SJWs to push agendas.
No. They robbed Jalen Brunson of the MVP. NOT jerkic. Jerkic only plays half a game and HE'S somewhat of a dirty player.
@@HenryHoops big shocker! Wimps
The last time Embiid actually *PLAYED* in Denver against Jokic, Kobe was still alive
He destroyed Jokić every time he has played him tho
@@talkingmoney4499 Jokic led his team to the finals and to a ring. Dirty Flopbiid cannot lead a team out of the 2nd round.
@@page8301 agreed but he has also been screeed by the refs and injuries …..talent for talent embiid is better but jokic is the better player due to avaibsliyl but to sit here say he didn’t deserve e that mvp and the year before is insane
@@talkingmoney4499 clown his not better !!!!! his a cry baby
@@talkingmoney4499if Joel was better he wouldn’t consistently play horrible in the second round in the eastern conference
Weak Mind.
Weak Body.
Weak Heart.
“Fragile ego, fragile body, weak mind, weak spirit.” -Jon Moxley
Ph#q embidd smoke some weed!
Imagine if you told your boss you’ll miss 1/5 days but expect to get paid for 5
the joys of making salary
You don't get OT sure but, you get paid for 40 hours a week. Even if you only work 24 hours.
I wonder if the sixers can pay him only 80% of his contract and use the other 20% to get someone else to fill in
That dude changed citizenship to be sure to win an Olympic medal... what more do you need to know about him? :D
He's a prick
He’s a bum. He even betrayed his country to get an easy Gold with the US. He won’t win anything in the NBA
A fraud
I can’t exactly blame him for not wanting to play for Camaroon cause, they probably weren’t making the Basketball Olympic events to begin with. I mean look at Luka he made the finals and even his team couldn’t make the cut. But telling the President of France if you get citizenship in the country you’ll play for them and then just deciding to play for Team USA after getting your citizenship is a dick move.
Well he's filthy rich at least
USA Basketball Team should be grateful Embiid opted to play for the USA Basketball Team. Don't forget USA defeated France by a mere Point. Had Embiid opted to play for France, who do you think can stop Embiid scoring at least 20 points against the US Team? France woul have been the Gol medalist
@@DaniloBarcenas-n1qYes because Embiid did SOOOOO well on team USA compared to everyone else right?
Im so happy to not be a sixers fan man
We glad u not lol 😂😂😂😂
@@GodSon91yall are a bunch of crack fiends
Philly sports fans are always insufferable. Regardless how good or bad their teams are doing.
@@GodSon91 stfu you got a horrible human being as your star player
I wonder what Paul George had to be thinking leaving a team with Kawhi and joining one with Embiid. What a waste of a career.
Embiid is probably THE only athlete in history to win MVP by race-baiting through media. Soft doesn't cut it. He's a spineless snake.
This is why I never acknowledge him as an MVP, Jokic is a 4-time MVP in my book. Case closed.
There is a reason why no one really respects that mvp reward he got
he's been a top 2 MVP candidate for 4 years straight, why are you actually surprised he won it? Mind you, Jokic stole his in 2021
@@kaysheye7784 Not even close. Why are they always calling those ticky-tack fouls on Embiid while he's breaking ft records and playing great in easy games and sit-out challenges? Embiid isn't even half a basketball player that Joker is. You're just delusional. It's clear who has the ring.
@@soloistdeve you're arguing about something that literally happened, he was runner up 2 straight years in 2021 and 2022. In his MVP season (2022-23), he had multiple highlight games such as bringing the Sixers back from a 20 point deficit in the 4th against the Bucks, dropping 50 against the Celtics AND giving Jokic the business with 47/18/5. He was leading MVP candidate in 2021 before he got hurt and leading MVP candidate last season in 2023-24 before he got hurt
Embiid has no shame at all, its just so crazy how he would openly say some shit like that, doesnt he have a media trainer to tell him what to say and not to say, shit like this affects his brand, his merch, heck his LEGACY.
unfortunately he has no legacy
The Sixers as an organization are as tone deaf as it gets. He's spent his whole career with the Sixers, so it makes sense. I'm disappointed in him that he still can't rise above it. I'm hoping the team's young star, Maxey, grows into a more reliable star that Sixers fans can get behind more easily.
that's where you are wrong, he definitely has plenty people to tell him, his dumb ass self just doesn't understand and won't hear or listen
bro how he snaked france and cameroon for team usa was the nail to the coffin of his legacy
Hes not very smart , which is evidenced by the way he plays.
Embiid wasn't hurt when he scored 50 points. That's his story for naive people like you. He plays well against Jokić because he wants to prove himself as a player. Unlike him, Jokic has nothing to prove to anyone. His results say it all. Embiid plays the worst road games in Denver and that's why he avoids those games for years. Jokic alone dominated the American national team at the Olympic Games, and Embiid showed that he cannot play a serious role in a good team.
France would have been the Gold Medalist had Embiid decided to play for them. France would provide him with set plays making it easier to score. Not to mention the French twin towers.
Yeah you’re just on here talking I watched that game and Jokic went 7-17 with 17 points . Embiid went 8-11 with 19 points, and they played in France so it was nobody’s home floor to get an advantage on. Jokic just dominates anybody that’s smaller than him, the second he gotta face Embiid or even Wemby he struggles. Embiid literally started that last come back to put Serbia away with the Joker as the primary defender.
@@saucegodnas7318 With the whole Serbian team's support & set plays Jokic surely plays well. Serbia depends on him. Embiid had none of those set plays. It's Lebron show remember. He got to outshine everyone in the USA Team.. But in the NBA I saw how Embiid outplayed Jokic one on one. Despite Embiid's not so good health, Slow footed Jokic saw for himself whose better one on one.
We don't need Embiid, the guy is bad@@DaniloBarcenas-n1q
Nba salaries shouldnt be on a yearly basis but on games played.
That way if they miss a game, thats a chunk of money deducted from their salaries.
Players will then actually TRY to STRENGTHEN their bodies to avoid injuries. Not just show up to practice and go home, but actually hit the gym and do strengthening exercises.
Their mindsets are now "oh shoot did i get injured? Meh I'll still get paid anyway" coz superstars know that they wont get traded
It's an interesting idea, but I'm sure the CBA probably has a clause requiring contracts to be based on the full season. Maybe not, since I think they still have 10-day contracts.
If there's some wiggle room there, though, some ballsy GM might just go up to a player with a number in his head, divide it by 82, and say, I'll pay you this much per game. We'll cut you a check for that amount after every game you play. But you don't play, no check.
That would be very spicy indeed.
That's a great suggestion...
Nice idea but I’d tweak a few things
A) For injuries that keep them out 10+ days they get 50% of every game missed, 60% if the timeline is over a month. If they’re out for the season they still get 100%.
B) Certain personal issues still get paid 75%, which would be outlined in the CBA. If a player has a legitimate reason, ex. the birth of a child, they shouldn’t be harshly penalized for it _provided this reason get verified beforehand_
@@Phoenix-vr6bv That makes sense, except that injuries that keep a player out for the season have to happen during a game or during practice or during team activities or travel. I wouldn't want to pay 100% for a player crashing his McLaren while going 120 in a 45 zone.
@ that I agree with
These dudes are soft period. KG's take is right on and hilarious. Thats the job, fkn do it and quit cryin
This is one dude. There are plenty of tough dudes in the nba
@@blicleak1101 Yep, there are plenty of guys doing their job without fear. This crybaby getting treated like a King.
They saw ben simmons get paid without playing any games and said "shoot i wanna do that"
Kawhi started this trend tbh
Embiid is the biggest fraud mvp ever. He will never be regarded as a top big man in basketball history. I don’t even think he deserved to be in the hall of fame tbh. He’s a choker, dirty player and soft. He’s also shameless.
Facts on facts and I’m background is Cameroun.
@@jeremynoumen3172what you said is racist asf and too far . Serge Ibaka was from Cameroon i believe. Da fuck
@@Bixeqe2Embiid is from cameroun. Whats racist about his statement lmao?
@@Bixeqe2 I’m from Cameroun how I’m racist? And ibaka is from Congo. We talking about basketball. I love joakim Noah siakam or all the young Cameroonian players Yves missi, koloko, cholnche
He is the only mvp that should never get in the hof
The dude joined Team USA to boost his resume. He wont win a chip because he mostly takes the easy way out.
I spent 20+ years in the Army. I'm not an athlete by any means, but a large number of the people that I served with, especially in the Airborne units, were. People running 6 minute miles with 35 pounds on their back wearing boots wasn't uncommon. There was no such thing as "load management". You perform when it counts, period. If you need to "rest", that's what weekends are for. And guys do that for their whole 20 years, with a smile.
Look at the Ranger Regiment: around 1500 infantrymen across three battalions who take on some of the toughest direct-action missions the Army has. Almost all of them ARE elite athletes, hitting weights, cardio, swimming, carrying loads, whatever. If you take a day off in a leadership role, you WILL be replaced. If you are a machine gunner (a prestigious job, despite the 20 extra pounds of weapon and ammo) and you hand it off, you will NEVER get it back. "Load management" would rightly be viewed as giving up on your teammates and letting them carry you.
Are there times when you get injured? Of course. But there are techniques to build up your musculoskeletal system that can reduce those chances. These players need to have some kind of year-round conditioning program,, that would probably bring almost immediate benefits.
Did any of them play 80 games in an nba season??
@@TYLOTYLOTYLO They jumped out of airplanes carrying 100+lbs of equipment and hitting the ground at 13+mph several times a month and ran multiple miles on concrete wearing body armor in boots. Their bodies take way more abuse than playing 30 minutes 80 times a year.
I served my country in the carribean. Hell yes I remember those runs with my rucksack stuffed with 40 lbs on my back and I didn't slow down. Most I did was try to encourage one of my now fallen squad mates to keep going as he sprained his ankle but yea....
@@TYLOTYLOTYLO Play games... Do you realize how childish you sound? Do you think playing hoops is harder than actual combat and training for combat?
@@TYLOTYLOTYLOfor real?
Im not a doctor, or a physical therapists or anything like that, but maybe the reason players are getting injured playing basketball is because their bodies arent used to... playing basketball
Jalen Brown and Jason Tatum of the Boston Celtics almost never miss games. Never have.
I guess they are used to playing basketball?
@@Jonteponte71 Yeah I guess so
As a former athlete and physical therapist I Agree. If you dont play enough your body does not develop the resilience and endurance it needs...this generation of athletes are lazy...they have too many distractions and too much money they cant wait to enjoy...
@@Jonteponte71JT and JB never stop playing or working out even during the offseason...they do not want to lose their level of fitness
The man is charmin, plus dirty, plus non-inteligent.
Gotta clarify. He is charmin ultra soft, not ultra strong.
He might be the first MVP to never reached even the conf finals and won't be HOF.
Things that are both soft and dirty:
1. Poop
2. Embiid
I think even d rose reached the ecf
@@tpsam yes, in 2011 when they are the no.1 seed but defeated by the big 3 miami heat
cmon now don't disrespect poop like that, some are tough and hard, it'll make you sweat letting it out!
That's racist
@@Darshdev232 how tf is that racist ? lol
honestly i don't even take that word seriously on the internet anymore.
simple solution, hit their wallet.
not available to play? reduced salary. injured? reduced salary. personal reasons? reduced salary.
when i mean reduced, i mean a good percentaged.
fans pay a price to see the stars play, they dont show up and next time they think twice about going.
lol docking pay for injury which 9 times out of 10 is caused by playing basketball (their job) isn't legal. like wtf are we even saying here
So if I'm injured on company time, my pay should be reduced??
Lol reducing pay due to injury is borderline slavery
@@potatoman305if it's your own fault. Yes.
@@Garth-bd3pu HUH?
Remember Sixers fans: Trust the process!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Him winning the mvp was embarrassing
I will never forgive Embiid for purposely trying to injure Mitchell Robinson.
What is really confusing here is that today's NBA is less physical yet players are more injured than to the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s. With how the game evolved, more spacing and less physical, yet more players experience injury. Weird!
And don’t forget they have modern medicine sports medicine.. physical therapists.. they have so much more money going into health today than ever before and these dudes are softer than ever!
@cwavygaming6615 💯 Agreed!
it’s because these players give their body up to sell foul calls. before like 2011, no matter how hard you sold contact, it was only gonna be called a foul if it was a foul. now players like embid sell every ounce of contact they get so a foul will get called, thus giving up your body to the dude who “fouled” you, and he didn’t foul you, he didn’t want to foul you, so he’s not taking any impact or energy off of your body. so quite literally these dudes are not bracing for impact, thus causing fractures, torn ligaments, concussions etc. strictly because they’re more invested in getting a whistle rather than saving their own body.
Watch how they react to contact. They basically throw themselves down towards the court. It's not gonna do your body any favors, especially when you do it ~80 games/season
Kids dream about playing in the pros. It would be an honor to be in such a position. Those who truly love the game, would do anything to go out and play all 82 games. Embiid and Kawhi should retire.
He hid his own failure behind the mental illness of another man and has pushed virtually every teammate under the bus at one moment or other, it doesn't matter how much points he stuff against the Pistons, the wizads or the Raptors.
Hating him because of his injuries is crazy, people should be hating him because of his moral failings.
Do you remember when everyone knew Blake Griffin wouldn't fly like that forever? You could tell. It's not healthy to throw your body around and into contact like that. At least Blake knew how to land...i think a lot of Scouts really dropped the ball and saw the potential over the darker truth which is that Joel Embiid has lacked a lot of professionalism and discipline from day 1. His body was NEVER ready and that's not just bad luck. As a pro athlete, your #1 job is to maintain your physical health (your workforce) and there are techniques to do that. Yet he doesn't know how to eat, fall, land or take contact. That's why he's always injured!! Don't believe me? Go watch some content on "how to avoid injuries in basketball" and come back to apologize ;)
He could be their "don't" model while prime LeBron or prime Shaq would be fantastic examples for "do". They never landed out of control, out of balance or tried to stick a landing they couldn't. They didn't turn on a standing foot or intentionally land on someone else. Okay, hustle plays don't count, my point remains😅
2:08 no one has ever thought Embiid destroyed Jokic. He doesn’t even play against the Nuggets.
I’m all for bagging on Embiid but do it with facts, not false storylines
But even if it were true, Jokic actually managed to get to the finals and even win. Dirty Flopbiid cannot even lead his team out of the 2nd round.
Embiid did have a monster game against Jokic and the Nuggets in early 2023 in Philadelphia.
Having said that, that was just ONE GAME. Most of the time Embiid doesn't even play against the Nuggets, especially in Denver.
@@chipmillard5043 The guy literally sits out games before the Denver match-up to save up energy/stamina. Then he goes all-world to show off how good he is. Then proceeds to miss multiple games after the match-up and never play in Denver. Guy is a clown.
Embiid losing 20 pounds would do more to prevent injuries than sitting out back to backs.
He’d much rather lose in the conference semis
You know whats crazy, Kawaii has been with the Clippers 6 years this season. Holy crap, I've barely seen in in a Clippers jersey.
What people also fail to mention is that in those "load managed" years, Tim Duncan still mostly played more than 65 games. In 2014, when they won the chip, he only missed 8 games. At 37. Kawhi at 31 only played 52 games. Tony Parker in 2014 at the same age played 68. Manu also. So yes, while Pop was sitting out his starters they were still playing close to if not more than 80% of the games.
Also, the Spurs are always deep in the playoffs, and their superstars represent their countries in international competitions and they're doing this for their whole NBA careers.
The thing with the Spurs, is that the star players were SELFLESS. They weren't stat-padding when they went back onto the court. Pop would play his key players sometimes 25 minutes in the latter half of their careers. Today's load-managed players will miss a back-to-back game, or the following, but will put in 40 minutes against a cream-puff opponent like Washington or Detroit to fluff-up their stats. This is something that Joel Embiid ALWAYS does. Which is how maintains such a high scoring average even when he barely plays.
Pop's method worked because he was doing it the right way. In the 2013-2014 season when they won it all, Tony Parker led the team in minutes played - 29.4. Nobody played more than 30 minutes a game. THAT is how you rest your players and load manage.
But players like Kawhi or Embiid like pretty numbers. They'll happily average 40 minutes a game for two weeks, get good averages, get injured, and rest for two months. What's better than not needing to work at all and still collecting millions of dollars of salary?
Adam Silver needs to tell LeCunt to shut the fuck up and call the shots for once. Hit players like these where it hurts the most. Remove guaranteed contracts. Add clauses whereby a drastic percentage of their salary will be null and void if they refuse to play/get injured too many times. Imagine being a fan, paying for the tickets with your hard earned money, and showing up at a game, only to realize the player you came to see decided to give you the finger and take the day off.
Load management in pro ball is a joke.
Injuries ruin things man just imagine historical games that could have happened but never did
I have the perfect solution pay them per game. Case closed u don’t play you do t get paid simple
Per game and minutes per game
Who ever supported the “process “ deserves this … can’t win with loser principles
Didn’t have loser principles when Kawhi hit THAT SHOT.
Or when Ben Simmons threw up a free layup.
Or when Harden went missing in game 7 against Celtics.
Embiid only ever issue has been injuries in the playoffs.
@ that raptor series Embid sat out a game cuz his stomach hurt.. smh LOSER
As being the leader of the team, this is truly pathetic on Joel Embid’s end and he needs to do better
I am a simple person, I see Embiid getting shit on, I click
Embiid wasn’t hurt when he scored 70 points against the hyped up Wemby tho was he?
Like to also point out, he shot 21-23 at the line. Once you see his big number games are fluffed-up by shooting 20+ free-throws, it is not that impressive.
Load management makes player softer. They need to train their body to get stronger just ike other sports like boxing, mma, muay thai etc.
Embiid casually stole the Joker's 3-peat MVP
You also forgot lazy! 🤣
His body isn't made for this and he has never seemed to put extra effort into conditioning but i won't let him off the hook with that. Didn't he play the all-star game and then miss weeks worth of sixers games immediately after it? Missed 43 games last year, was hurt for playoffs, then goes to the Olympics? Now already missing the beginning of the season? Don't give me the 'love of country' argument because dude got his citizenship from France in July 2022, so he could play for them if he didn't get US citizenship in time. He wanted to play in the Olympics and sure he would rather for America but only because you are nearly guaranteed a gold medal. if that didn't happen he would have played for France to give it his best shot. Has nothing to do with the love of any country it was for himself.
Truth is this dude treats sixers as his side hustle, all-star games and Olympics and twitter are his main focus and his full time job. Sixers season ticket holders should ask for their money back for any game he doesn't play at home. Hurt or not. They extended him through 2029 now, nobody reasonable thinks he has any chance of playing basketball in five years, he cannot even play in October right now after playing a tournament in August. In 2029 he is slated to make 69 million that season. Not a shot he plays a single game. I am certain he will be fine to suit up for the All-star game this February though. lol
Merit-based pay should be implemented. A lot of these injuries will stop being prevalent when these players see pay cuts.
Wasn't everyone hating on him for going for the MVP a couple years ago instead of prioritizing being healthy for the playoffs
Embiid's ESPN ranking might need another look. Dude is a monster when healthy but how often is that?
Only eight teams in the playoffs would see a lot of this load management stop and make the regular season more important generally. Have the teams finishing 7-14 in each conference playing best-of-seven 'qualifiers', with the losers going into an exclusion bracket for the next season along with the team that finishes 15. Any team in the exclusion bracket can't enter the playoffs, their season will be all about getting the best seeding in the qualifiers.
Embiid isnt a leader, he’s a spoiled kid. soft and no drive at all.
Bro just came off a playoffs where he had a knee injury a literaly bells palsy
Problem is load management is not only not effective, it actually increases injury. Several doctors have written about this. The human body is not meant to have that much weight put on the joints. Therefore, you have to ensure your body is used to the impact playing basketball will have on your knees. When you rest, don’t practice and then go all out and play hard, then rest and then go all out again, your body doesn’t have the proper conditioning to stay level. The massive ups and downs create more strain on a players body. Look at the previous generations in the nba. You never had star players getting injured with this regularity. Not even close. They practiced hard, played hard and therefore the body got conditioned for the season. I don’t understand how they haven’t figured out that the entire concept is literally doing the opposite of what is intended
Ppl with working brain know this, human are very adactive, emmid is just lazy
Load-management worked for Kawhi on the Raptors. But I think the Raptors implemented load management differently.
Joel Embid too soft always has been. 😂😂😂
Kobe,MJ, and much more impressively, WILT CHAMBERLAIN never considered load management.
Damn must be nice to be Leonard, missing work almost half the time and never getting fired. Joel and him would never had made it in the 90s nba. Or leflop
Cut his salary 20%
If someone is right, why does that makes him hater?
Embiid is being told he has to do this btw. 😂 the iq of internet basketball fans is mad.
Spurs already have doing a loud management with Wemby. Seeing the games you can tell, no matter what Wemby is doing he never plays more that he needs to.
That's why their seats empty???
I’m fantasizing with going to my boss and announcing I won’t be coming in on Fridays from now on 😂
One last word about load management :nobody said a thing about Pop s policy ,now everybody has a rant when it's for Kawhi Leonard .I think that says everything .Beyond that NBA star players are very well paid to play a game they love so it's very normal they are expected to produce every night.So sad some players didn't understand that.Excellent video
Embiid would be less prone to injury, if unlike nearly all other centers in the league, didn't spend half his shot attempts baiting for foul calls and careening to the ground like a baby giraffe. Seriously, if he would just cut that crap out, he wouldn't be so injury prone, and the kid's wouldn't have to call him "Mr Glass".
Well I think this argument is absolutely flawed from the beggining. I get what you were trying to say in the end, but I don't agree with the approach. For starters, Embiid admiting he'll most likely never play another back to back isn't a "losers" mentality, but actuality the harsh reality he's been dealt with. I see it as being honest and realistic, instead of being either a liar or a delusional fool. To me this came as no surprise at all, since I already knew he would never be able to play another back to back from the moment his surgery last year was announced. The meniscus it's a very complicated subject and people like Embiid and Kawhi who had more then one surgery there, will forever be faced with a degenaritive condition that will limit their abilities. This is "basic" medical science and anyone with a bit of knowledge about that type of injury and especially about the procedure they chose to do last season (which was a short term band-aid for the playoffs and seen by many medical staff as a bad one when considered the long-term knee health), will most likely tell you that there's no way in hell that his knee will ever be able to whitstand the NBA's workload with back to back's. Thinking otherwise is simply being either uninformed or unrealistic. Sorry Henry, I do really appreciate your videos, but this one deserved a lot more research and a lot less of Stephen A Smith and Kendrick Perkins blabbing on their ignorance.
Sooo… back in the day the guys just played and didn’t over play/train etc. They played 82 games a season most seasons. Now they’re rehabbing teenage injuries.
NBA management should give their players the same contracts that NFL management gives their players. There has to be some motivation for NBA players to play hard and not go into cruise control while putting up your legs. This would prevent players from just going through the motions.
Can you imagine Kobe doing "load management?!?!" hilarious
Comparing anyone's mentality to Kobe and MJ is unfair lol
It up to maxie & Lowry. For Paul George n Embid to not show up 2 a home opener on their own home floor tells you exactly how the rest of the season is going to go. Those players will collect $100 million dollars this year just to not play.
hth jokic always destr0yed embiid
He wasnt worse in the playoffs last year with multiple injuries was he?
Seeing him now, can I even believe that he was "playing on one leg" last year? 🤔😂🤦
he’d probably get less injuries if he quit falling on the court like a toddler learning to walk
Should be Mandatory for Embiid to pay out 1% of his contract to any fan that has the disservice of watching him!
Joel has himself to partially blame, always taking those spinning fadaway jumpers like he's a small wing and flopping around like a damn fish at every chance. When you're that massive and that predisposed to injuries that kind of play will alway catch up to you.
After receiving 3 year extension deal and saying 0:48
Am I missing something? I thought the minimum games played rule only applied to the end of the season awards, not the All-Star game but 2 different times this video mentioned how Embiid and Kawhi would not have qualified if the rules were implemented years earlier.
Let’s stop calling the correct take “hating”
Listen he is injury prone …dude has more heart playing with on leg and one eye against the Knick’s and the refs cheating for the other team that series
the fact that stephen a smith compare embiid situation to coach pop strategic mindset is diabolic. All he does is yap
I'd be fine with it if there was actual data that it worked. Just as there's precisely zero data to back up innings limits. Guys seemed healthier when they threw 250ip a year. The Japanese throw literally every day and their injuries are no more common.
I'm just not convinced it's helped at all and it's not impossible to believe it's actually having a negative effect on player health.
If they just kept it internal I would think less ppl would care. Load Management doesn't necessarily improve championship odds
7:01 damn man 😂😂
They get millions and millions and to play ball and they don't want to play ball. About 90% of us regular people will never see that kind of financial freedom and work at dead end jobs.
He’s not nearly as soft physically as he is mentally.
Imagine getting called racist because you got jokic as mvp
the voters throwing him a bone is the only reason that Nikola Jokic hasn't been MVP reigning for four years in a row
I read an article once that said all the new strength and conditioning regimes that have become fads are actually hurting players' durability. I think it said that the proper conditioning for a basketball player is just lifting weights and running.
There's also the AAU argument, that young players in the pipeline play so many games as children that when they make it to the NBA, they have the bodies of guys who have played 5-6 years.
You maybe wouldn't think that's what going on with Embiid, growing up in Cameroon. But he has a big body. He's heavy and running puts a lot of strain on his knees and ankles. You could maybe think there might be something in his upbringing, nutritional or cultural or something. But his attitude just doesn't help him at all.
Embiid has never had a work ethic. He got by because of sheer size and athleticism. If he had any heart he could have been the next Wilt Chamberlain but Embiid is just another soft ass player that will make half a billion dollars without accomplishing anything noteworthy
problem with load management, is that the floor is unbeatable. you rest for 30 games, and you slip your ankle due to a wet part of the court, before even getting subbed in. hypothetically speaking, it makes sense, but it's not. it's more of, when are you gonna get by the grim reaper to be honest.
The NBA is run by Woke Leftist that are Soft. When Laundry Jones took over the Hawks he said he wanted to focus on "Player Empowerment" & that mentality lead to firing Hawks Coach Nate McMillan who took them to the Eastern Finals & had the best winning % for the Hawks since Larry Drew. Nate McMillan even said it's hard to coach these last few generations for obvious reasons. Again the real problem is these Players act like they are Entitled & if they don't get there way they act like Victims. They also put themselves ahead of the game & don't have any drive to compete & win. They just want to be famous & get paid & they are extremely soft. You talk about Load Management well just look at who started that crap, the Super Woke Leftist Gregg Popovich who uses the NBA Platform to push Political Agendas. The NBA used to be about Sports & a Uniting realm but Leftist in the NBA ruined it like they've done with Gaming, Hollywood, Media, Music Industry, just about everything been used by SJWs to push agendas.
Just waiting for Steph Curry to retire so I can stop watching the NBA. too many prima donas and most of them are overpaid.
Steph the only respectable superstar in the league
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The incentive structure of the NBA, like other professional sports, is all about success in the playoffs. Very little of rhe regular season matters outside of qualifying for the playoffs. Tennis and golf have faced this issue for decades - many prominent players choose to only play in major tournaments, with higher prestige and payouts. Why get your players injured in the regular season only for them to miss time when it really counts? "Load management" is a cover, a "marketing term", for this reality.
Major League baseball counters this to a far greater extent than the NBA. The top 2 teams in each league get first round playoff byes, and avoid having to play a short series. The NBA could at least increase the reward for finishing the regular season at the top or near top of the conference.
Contract should be terminated due to fundamental dishonesty.
193 millions for 3 years ? Joel is the happiest player in the NBA, je got a monster contract, plays less than 40yo LBJ or CP3....he is living his best life.
A ring ? He doesnt care about it and I don't think he has the skills to carry the Sixers in the playoffs anyway.
Being CONSISTENTLY terrible in playoffs is not bad luck, it's just that he doesnt have it.
AAU delivers Broken Down Players too the NBA
The fact that he still thinks he can beat Boston, when he never won a playoff series against them just baffles me 😂
Vaginitis has been taking over every professional sports leagues. Dudes are just soft as fuck nowadays
It's a travesty to sit out players when the cost of watching games in the arena is very high. Was Coach Pop wrong to rest his starters for certain games? Absolutely. But no one called him out because in the end he won championships, and in other cases, it benefited stars who were juicing their stats to have a "greater" legacy. The money has also gotten too good so players try to extend their playing years even though in reality they are no longer playing to compete, but to secure their retirement. We can't blame them because the culture all around the league has welcomed this mentality. The traditional media is also to blame for persisting on creating drama because it generates engagement. As for Embiid, he should agree to a pay cut if he continues to sit out games. When he missed two whole seasons even before he started playing, that was already a red flag. If he were actually self-aware, fans would be more sympathetic to his situation. But these days players keep on opening their mouths to say something when nothing needs to be said. Or sometimes flat out lie to avoid taking accountability. Just play and let your play do the talking.
Contracts should be paid out in proportion to games played.
Kween Kawhi, The Lady of Load Management.
Announcing that Kawhi is out is not dropping a bomb. It's more like dropping a cotton ball.