Joel Embiid and displacing fundamental truths
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Everyone wants to talk about Joel Embiid, but what I want to talk about is the future that Joel Embiid’s short career alludes to. I want to talk about an NBA in which NBA titles only matter to provide context to a point in time instead of a watermarked descJoel Embiid and displacing fundamental truths
Everyone wants to talk about Joel Embiid, but what I want to talk about is the future that Joel Embiid’s short career alludes to. I want to talk about an NBA in which NBA titles only matter to provide context to a point in time instead of a watermarked description of what the league presumably was for that particular season. I want to talk about the increasing fluidity of positionality and how size can still determine, at the very least, a bit of your future. I want to talk about how raw talent means nothing if there are no opportunities for it to cook.I don’t want to talk about "The Process," but I want to talk about processes and how the NBA has built on them through players like Embiid. I want to talk about transcendence, but more importantly, I want to talk about the truth in an era where "The Answer" — and players like him — doesn’t exist anymore.Everything and nothing about the slow and then suddenly accelerated start to Embiid’s career makes sense. His skill set shouldn’t be this polished, his impact s Read more