I read the story and while I can relate since it seems like we have a lot of similarities in personalities. I'm quiet, I don't trust shyt, and occasionally I'll use laughter to blend in/hide pains. At the same time, I know my personality comes off as stoic & uncaring. If I choose to, I can present myself not entirely differently, but meet people half way to at least make a working relationship go smooth and I don't have a job where that's kinda mandatory or where I get paid hundreds of millions, yet anyway.
There's a lot of pieces left out and a lot of accountability left in the air. Yeah the Sixers were an unserious clown shoes org for having an intern as head of health & recovery, and might still be for all we know. But it isn't typical for a team to lightweight give up on a top 5 pick, especially with as much potential as Embiid had coming out. He's telling the Sixers what he's going to do and what he isn't and the article even admits he got out of shape as a result, so yeah, the Sixers are supposed to be pissed and feel like they got got when they're on the hook to pay a Cameroonian nikka that's being noncompliant. I get it he was frustrated with his recovery and ended up being right, but like I said there's too much missing, that's going from A-Z with no letters in between.
And ok, his first few years were rocky and a lot was outside of his control. When about reports coming out that he along with Simmons were coddled and he still wasn't taking recovery and fitness serious after he was right about the foot, he was established at that point and a made man "Mr. Trust The Process". Who's to blame for being out of shape and all around failures then, the article's hopping into a Delorean and skips a lot of years to now.
Now he's seeing things when it's too late and knows his body can't handle basketball anymore, that's why he's self conscious about his place in basketball. He knows he's left a lot on the table and now he's getting diagnoses about breaking his hip to take stress off the knee just to put a ball in a hoop. I get it, it's sad, but it's not all on Philly.
What's clear more than anything is Philly was probably the worst place for him to get drafted too. His real nature is being quiet and a place like San Antonio would've been perfect and probably be more of a home. Instead, he's spent years trying to fit into Philly and be a funny troll and have a laugh with Philly fans, now he's realizing what everybody else does. Philly fans are pretty shytty and he's put his health on the line just to get OD shytted on like only NY/Philly media & fans can do (Laker fans excluded). That bothers him heavily too.
That's totally unacceptable
say nothing at high decibels, but God forbid reading a well written article for 10 mins.
