‘Terrible’ Joel Embiid is embracing the hate from Knicks fans
NY Post
New York hates Joel Embiid. But Tuesday he soaked up all the vitriol and answered back with victory.
The Sixers star overcame a bad knee, a bad migraine and for the most part his own bad performance, doing just enough to help his team stave off elimination.
Philadelphia pulled out a 112-106 come-from-behind first-round Game 5 win over the Knicks at the sold-out Garden to extend their season.
The series moves back down the Turnpike to Wells Fargo Center for Thursday’s Game 6 with the Knicks leading 3-2.
But at least the Sixers have hope – and the expectation that Embiid can’t possibly be as bad as he was on Tuesday.
“I was terrible, but I’m hoping that I can be better,” said Embiid, who notched a dubious triple double with 19 points, 16 rebounds, 11 assists and five blocks.
It feels right that on the day we celebrate Aaron Judge joining an elite pantheon of athlete — the multi-time winner of the Most Valuable Player award — that we take a walk back to the beginning, when Judge was little more than a 6-foot-7, 280-pound curiosity who mostly specialized in striking out.
The NFL has warned its players to take precautions against a “transnational crime ring” that is suspected of orchestrating a number of break-ins of athletes’ homes including Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce.
Joel Embiid isn’t pleased with details of the 76ers’ team meeting after Monday’s loss being leaked, telling reporters after Wednesday’s road loss to the Grizzlies, “whoever leaked that is a real piece of s–t.”
PHOENIX — Jalen Brunson didn’t want to comment on the NBA looking into his father’s promotion and contract as a potential salary-cap circumvention, but the point guard certainly had a message to anybody questioning Rick Brunson’s coaching credentials.
PHOENIX — Wednesday brought some cautiously optimistic updates for the Knicks frontcourt.
The Greatest Escape in franchise history was perpetrated by Glen Sather, when the general manager extricated himself and the Rangers from the final five years of Scott Gomez’s contract by moving the $7,357,143-per-year center to Montreal on June 30, 2009 after two years in New York.
The Yankees publicly are on the same page: Hal Steinbrenner, like Brian Cashman and Aaron Boone before him, said that issues with the club’s fundamentals did not hover over the team all season.
The first day of the rest of Daniel Jones’ dwindling time with the Giants arrived Wednesday, with Jones in the building, in the meetings, on the practice field (although not doing very much) and not at all part of the game plan for the next game, relegated to a non-participant role for the remainder of the season.
There will be a little extra magic for Knicks-Spurs on Christmas Day.
The quickest way for the Giants to climb out of quarterback hell is also the quickest way to extend their stay there for at least three more years.