Why does Embiid get so much hate for playing for team USA?

[Jplaya2023]

Im more tripping that dude is actually playing and not rehabbing.

Philly should have blocked this

 

[Mr. Jack Napier]

NAH ITS BECAUSE HE PRETENDED
HE WANTED TO PLAY FOR FRANCE
AND USED THAT AS LEVERAGE
TO GET AN EXPEDITED CITIZENSHIP...

THEN TURNED AROUND AND
PLAYED FOR AMERICA AFTER
HE GOT HIS FRANCE CITIZENSHIP.




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So he finessed France

 

[Illuminatos]

Because dude wasn’t even born and raised in America. It’s weird lol.


This could’ve been him but whatever.^

 

[GilSho]

Because dude wasn’t even born and raised in America. It’s weird lol.


This could’ve been him but whatever.^

shyt is weak as hell., I don't give a fukk how people try to spin it.

 

[GilSho]

Lowkey a sub at that dikkriding fakkit

 

[GilSho]

One day we'll discuss how so many Africans athletes have ZERO pride in their native countries. You rarely see this level of shamelessness with Asians, Europeans and South Americans.

Lionel Messi wasn't ever going to play for Spain instead of Argentina and Luka Doncic chose Slovenia over Spain.

Imagine if a National hero like Didier Drogba chose to play for France instead of Ivory Coast.

Didier Drogba has insisted he has no regrets about rejecting the chance to represent France.

The Chelsea striker pledged his international allegiance to the country of his birth, Ivory Coast, and he has no doubts he made the right decision.

"No, I have no regrets [about not playing for France," Drogba told L'est Republicain.

"I arrived in France at the age of five. I was always a fan of the team of Platini at the time of 1986 World Cup.

"But I am proud to play for Ivory Coast and to have been born in Abidjan.

"The choice of Ivory Coast always seemed natural"

 

[UpAndComing]

Patrick Ewing played for Team USA. Mike Brown coached the Nigerian Basketball team in the 2020 Olympics. So I don't see the problem

I think people who don't follow FIBA closely don't realize how common it is for countries to give players citizenship to play for their national team

List of naturalized basketball national team players - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Mirin4rmfar]

Lol why are people acting like Embiid still don't have an African accent? He is ring chasing.

Him and Siakam should have prepped Cameroon.

 

[Marc Spector]

All that shyt is wack too. The narrative around him being a playoff failure doesn’t help at all. Dude acted as if he was gonna play for France and did all that shyt with government officials and everything just to come play for a team that don’t need him. Wack. As an Embiid hater this one is a lay up, nikka.

they absolutely do need him. Europe has the bigger body players who were dominating the boards during FIBA

 

[pete clemenza]

 

[Mister Terrific]

Because dude wasn’t even born and raised in America. It’s weird lol.


This could’ve been him but whatever.^

One day we'll discuss how so many Africans athletes have ZERO pride in their native countries. You rarely see this level of shamelessness with Asians, Europeans and South Americans.

Lionel Messi wasn't ever going to play for Spain instead of Argentina and Luka Doncic chose Slovenia over Spain.

Like imagine if Didier Drogba chose to play for Ivory Coast instead of France.

"I've been here for a long time," Embiid told The Associated Press at Sixers training camp at The Citadel. "My son is American. I felt like, I'm living here and it's a blessing to be an American. So I said, why not?"

 

[Brolic]

Because he should represent his homeland

 

[Flight]

Jose is from Brooklyn if I remember correctly and of course he’s playing for Puerto Rico. He was never nice enough to hoop for Team USA.

 

[StatUS]

Jose is from Brooklyn if I remember correctly and of course he’s playing for Puerto Rico. He was never nice enough to hoop for Team USA.

Also Puerto Rico is America so a Puerto Rican pro baller from New York playing for them makes sense

 

[FukkaPaidEmail]

The USA soccer example is a bad example

1. The dual nationals that pick US soccer are usually not good enough (or they’re borderline)for the other country at the time they switched and they’re mostly born in the USA.

Embiid is clearly good enough for Cameroon


2. In the case of the German born usa players…who is gonna tell a kid whose parents served in the army that he ain’t a American