Nothing like some good self-deprecating humor. It’s good for the soul.

Joel Embiid hasn’t been on social media since April 9th, which is before the start of the playoffs, but he popped up this week and changed his profile picture to this:

Those are the shots of Joel crying after the game seven loss.

King hard ass Seth Joyner didn’t appreciate the tears, because he thought it showed softness I guess, but I’ll go ahead and disagree. I’ll disagree, not because I’m some “soy boy liberal” (which isn’t even accurate, but the comments section trolls say it anyway), but because it shows that Embiid is a human being and he cares. He could have just walked off the floor, dissed the media, and started planning summer vacation while raking in his millions of dollars, but the crying to me shows that he actually gives a shit about winning. Who really cares how a single adult responds to adversity anyway? Everybody’s different.

This was Joel’s first post in more than five weeks:

Anyway, I like the approach, the humor. You can’t take yourself too seriously. You’ll go crazy living life that way.

Reporting for Crossing Broad, I’m Dr. Phil.