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Joel Embiid Pokes Fun at Himself with New Twitter Profile Picture
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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:
Hell of a season. Proud of my guys and I appreciate all the support you guys gave us all season long. Extremely disappointed and fell short of our goal but this is the motivation I needed and best believe I’ll be BACK EVEN BETTER AND STRONGER #TheProcess pic.twitter.com/sN7ufCM1pD
— Joel Embiid (@JoelEmbiid) May 15, 2019
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.
Kevin has been writing about Philadelphia sports since 2009. He spent seven years in the CBS 3 sports department and started with the Union during the team's 2010 inaugural season. He went to the academic powerhouses of Boyertown High School and West Virginia University. email - k.kinkead@sportradar.com