Derek Bodner: Brett Brown sets a target of 38 minutes per game for Joel Embiid in the playoffs. Embiid averaged 30 per game in the playoffs last year, which jumped up to 34 per night in the second round against the Raptors.
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Position: C
Born: 03/16/94
Height: 7-0 / 2.13
Weight:250 lbs. / 113.4 kg.
Salary: $27,504,630
Born: 03/16/94
Height: 7-0 / 2.13
Weight:250 lbs. / 113.4 kg.
Salary: $27,504,630
Noah Levick: Joel Embiid says Shake Milton has been the starting point guard in practice and has been “doing an amazing job.”
Serena Winters: Brett Brown said he will likely be more ‘frugal’ with minutes for his high-minute guys (like Ben, Joel, Tobias) in the scrimmage games, but expects ‘normal numbers’ once the regular season (8 seeding games) get underway. #Sixers
Ky Carlin: Joel Embiid has jokes already about the food in the bubble #Sixers
NBC Sports Philadelphia: Joel Embiid has arrived for the flight to Orlando, in full mask, suit and glove gear.
“I thought about it,” Embiid said when asked whether he considered opting out. “The current trend (of) people getting sick and a lot of people dying, obviously you don’t know what’s gonna happen, (but) you don’t want to be in a situation where you put your life at risk and all that stuff just for, what, the money? “At the end of the day, basketball is not all that matters. I got family, I got myself to look out for,” Embiid continued. “All I want to be is stay healthy and stay safe. Keep the people around me safe. I want to make sure I’m able to live for a long time and not have any sort of consequences in the future.”
“There’s some guys that like to go out, there’s some guys that like to do stuff, there’s some guys that like adventure,” Embiid said, joking that all he wants to do when on the road is play videogames. “I know myself. I know I’m not gonna put everybody else at risk. But the question is, is everybody else gonna do the same? Just being around this business, I surely don’t think so.”
Serena Winters: Joel Embiid on Ben Simmons: “We’re going to need him…I’m going to do my best to keep helping him & create some space for him. At the end of the day, it’s all about winning a 🏆 & I feel like he has the right mindset. I know one thing about him, he wants to win.” #Sixers
Jon Johnson: “We got a great chance(to win title). I truly believe it.” – Joel Embiid pic.twitter.com/SBcQDvA8Jo
Kyle Neubeck: Embiid says he was not a fan of the Orlando restart initially: “I hated the idea. I feel like with everything that’s been going on, it’s unfortunate with what’s going on…all I wanna do is stay safe and stay healthy, keep the people around me safe.”
Derek Bodner: Joel Embiid on restarting the season in Orlando in a bubble: “I’m not a big fan of the idea. But then again, I’m going to do my job. I’m not going to let the city down…I don’t like the idea.” Embiid says he’s not confident in everyone following protocols and being responsible.
Kyle Neubeck: Embiid says being assertive is one of his top priorities in Orlando. “I should never be in a position where I have to complain about getting the ball…I have the ability to carry the team.” Promises to be aggressive during the restart.
Ky Carlin: Joel Embiid adds that he and Al Horford are fine. He doesn’t see the pairing as a problem and that they just need some shooting around them. #Sixers
Serena Winters: Josh Richardson says he’s seen Joel Embiid in the gym ‘quite a bit,’ since he got back to Philly. “He looks good & looks like he’s in good shape so that’s encouraging.” #Sixers
For all the focus on the many imperfections of the Simmons-Joel Embiid duo in Philly these past three seasons, or the style of play tug of war that has taken place in their Kobe-Shaq Lite environment, the fact remains that they’re the two most pivotal pieces on a team that some scouts still see as capable of being the surprise team in the East. And Simmons, it seems, is not only fully recovered from the “nerve impingement” that was threatening their chances at a long playoff run back in mid-March but he’s bigger and stronger too.
For all the focus on the many imperfections of the Simmons-Joel Embiid duo in Philly these past three seasons, or the style of play tug of war that has taken place in their Kobe-Shaq Lite environment, the fact remains that they’re the two most pivotal pieces on a team that some scouts still see as capable of being the surprise team in the East. And Simmons, it seems, is not only fully recovered from the “nerve impingement” that was threatening their chances at a long playoff run back in mid-March but he’s bigger and stronger too.
Kyle Neubeck: Brown offers a strong endorsement of Embiid’s work during quarantine: “There is nobody on our team that has put in more time than Joel Embiid.”
Serena Winters: Brett Brown on Joel Embiid: “The respect & applause I give him for putting in time. There is nobody that has put in more time than Joel Embiid…I’m looking for Joel to come in, in as good as shape as I have coached him.” #Sixers 👀👀👀
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The NBA will use March 11 as the end date of the regular season for incentives clauses. That means player bonuses will be prorated over the amount of games his team had played at the time the season was postponed. For example, the New Orleans Pelicans’ Jrue Holiday has a games-played bonus in his contract that will be prorated from 66 down to 51 games. The bonus is considered met since Holiday played in 55 games — more than his new threshold of 51 games played. The 76ers’ Joel Embiid will have the remaining three years left on his salary — $29.5 million, $31.6 million and $33.6 million — become fully guaranteed, even if he suffers a career-ending injury to his feet or lower back. Embiid had a benchmark for playing 1,650 minutes that has been reduced to 1,307 based on the 65 games Philadelphia played as of March 11. At the time the season was postponed, Embiid had played 1,329 minutes.
Philadelphia 76ers star Joel Embiid pointed to his relationship with upper management as one of the reasons he is bullish about the team’s prospects and has moved past a PR snafu in the spring when its owner moved to cut pay for workers before quickly retracting the decision. Embiid, 26, spoke with Business Insider about that very decision for a profile of the man who was involved with making it: the team’s owner Josh Harris.
Embiid cited his relationship with Harris as one reason he came away from the pay cut episode feeling good about team management going forward. He said Harris had quickly tried to make the situation better after Embiid reached out in March. “Since I got to Philly, he’s made me feel like a partner instead of treating me like someone who works for him,” said Embiid. “He values my input and we got it fixed.”
Now he has his sights set on changing course, and winning an NBA championship. He cited it as his biggest goal. “I think we have a chance to make it happen,” he said. “That is the first step. And once you get that first one, you are going to think about a couple more.”
Joel Embiid's final three years of contract now guaranteed
One agreement finalized in recent days includes the NBA prorating performance bonuses and incentives using March 11 as the end date of the regular season — eliminating the eight additional seeding games in Orlando as part of the formula, sources said. For Philadelphia 76ers All-Star Joel Embiid, it means meeting the minutes-played criteria needed to fully guarantee the final three years and nearly $95 million on his $148 million maximum contract, sources said.
Embiid signed a five-year, $148 million deal extension in 2017 that included financial protections for the Sixers had Embiid suffered career-ending injuries involving his back or feet. Those protections are moot now; Embiid has shown his durability and his All-NBA production has actually outsized his contract. Embiid needed 1,650 minutes this season to fully guarantee the contract, but prorated over the Sixers’ 65 games that lowered the requirement to below the 1,329 minutes he had played this season.
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Among the players on the call Friday: Milwaukee’s Malcolm Brogdon, Portland’s CJ McCollum, Philadelphia’s Joel Embiid, Indiana’s Justin Holiday, San Antonio’s Rudy, Brooklyn’s Spencer Dinwiddie, Sacramento’s Harrison Barnes, Orlando’s Al-Farouq Aminu, Philadelphia’s Tobias Harris, Toronto’s Kyle Lowry, Utah’s Mike Conley Jr., Portland’s Zach Collins and Indiana’s Myles Turner. Former NBA player and NBPA executive Roger Mason Jr. was also on the call, sources said.
Joel Embiid has been hitting the gym – preparing for an unknown future with championship aspirations still top of mind. Following a recent workout, he described his life during the hiatus – from sweat, to documentaries, to video games. Here’s some of what was said…
The big man’s training routine has ramped up lately, as he prepares himself for a potential return to play: “We’ve been going at it for the past four weeks, about six times a week, just trying to get a head start, and get ready for whatever’s coming. I have something to prove, and I feel like whenever that opportunity comes, it’s going to be my time.” The All-Star will aim to capitalize on the momentum he was building prior to the hiatus: “I felt like before the season got shut down, I was on that path. Especially after that All-Star game, my mentality completely changed. First part of the season wasn’t up to my standard, not even close. I was on that path of changing it all, go out, and make it happen.”
Like millions of basketball fans across the country, Embiid had a formative experience watching The Last Dance documentary on ESPN: “I did watch it. It was interesting. I saw a lot of similarities, and a lot of people have told me that. I’m always quiet about it, but I kind of saw that there’s a lot of similarities, and I can also be that guy. I just need to keep putting in the work, and that’s what I’ve been doing. It was a great documentary and I enjoyed it.”
Early in the hiatus, Embiid pledged $500,000 to COVID-19 relief and research efforts. Embiid thought it was important to give back: “Being where I’m from, the way I grew up, I saw a lot of struggle. Being in my position, where I have the power to change people’s lives, and to help people, it’s just me. I didn’t even have to think twice about it. That’s the way my parents raised me, that’s the way I was brought up. Add in the fact that growing up in Africa, in Cameroon, all the struggle that I saw – it’s only right for me to make that kind of gesture… I want to keep doing it, and help as many people as I can.”
Even as the NBA appears to be closer to a return, Embiid is still emphasizing safety — though he misses playing in front of the Wells Fargo Center crowd. “First of all, I want everybody to remain safe. I want to be safe,” Embiid said. “This is nothing to play with. You don’t know what can happen. But when the time is right and everything is safe and I can be on the court, I feel like what I’m going to be missing the most is just being out there, winning for the city of Philadelphia, representing the city of Philadelphia, and just going out there and dominating.”
It was an odd first half to the season, but outside of a shoulder injury that cost him five games, Embiid was looking more like his old self after the break. “I feel like before the season got shut down, I was on that path,” Embiid said. “Especially after that All-Star Game, my mentality just completely changed. First part of the season, it wasn’t up to my standards — not even close. I was on that path to just changing all that and making it happen.”
Like anyone missing basketball, Embiid watched “The Last Dance” documentary. There are some parallels to be made as Embiid and Ben Simmons have had their share of disappointment in the postseason. Much like Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen did with the “Bad Boy” Pistons, the Sixers’ All-Star duo may have to overcome their playoff boogeymen in Boston and Toronto. Embiid believes he can push his teammates the same way Jordan once did. “I did watch it. It was interesting,” Embiid said. “I saw a lot of similarities and a lot of people have told me that. … I can also be that guy, I just need to keep putting in the work and that’s what I’ve been doing.”
Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid made a donation of $500,000 to #FirstRespondersFirst to provide personal protective equipment to hospitals in Philadelphia and across Pennsylvania. Embiid, a three-time All-Star, did research before making his donation to the partnership of CAA Foundation, the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Thrive Global.
Joel Embiid: So far, my biggest efforts have been in Cameroon and Philadelphia, the two places I call home. My very first initiatives were focused on my Arthur Embiid & Angels Foundation, inspired by the memory of my brother Arthur, and established to protect and unite disadvantaged children in Cameroon. We wanted to partner with a well-established organization in Cameroon and did so with UNICEF to help children in need. I’ve since also worked with my incredible partner Under Armour as it relates to efforts in Philly, including a court refurbishment in my brother Arthur’s name at the Boys & Girls Club of Philadelphia.
Joel Embiid: When the NBA put the season on hold, I literally couldn’t believe it. If something could shut down the NBA, then I really needed to understand it. As I am lucky to be in a position to help, I immediately wanted to know how best I could help. As the virus continues to spread, the biggest thing to me was how to better prepare those who are putting their lives on the line for us.
Last year, Trindle was diagnosed with Stage 4 Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Following more than six months of chemotherapy, her bell-ringing tweet went viral and caught the attention of the team. “I think Tobias Harris was the first one, that was in the morning and I was like, ‘Oh my God.’ And like Ben Simmons,” Trindle said. “Joel Embiid did.” That short six-second video of perseverance has been viewed over 600,000 times, and it also led to an invitation from Mike Scott and the Sixers.
