Sixers

Shout Out to Adam Aron for Taking Time from the Failing AMC to Congratulate Joel Embiid on His 70 Point Night

By Kyle Pagan

Published: Jan 23rd, 2024 · 11:32 AM EST

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I think Phil E. Moose wrote this:

So painful: 4 years after Covid the industrywide box office is still ludicrously anemic & AMC stock has slid to $4.48. Difficult to think about anything other than guiding AMC back in these challenging times. But greatness deserves praise: Sixers Joel Embiid… 70 points… 70! pic.twitter.com/02gkZSiRuw

— Adam Aron (@CEOAdam) January 23, 2024

Great tweet. Bring awareness to how hard you’re working for shareholders to bring up the anemic box office numbers and still congratulate Joel Embiid on his 70 point night. Don’t worry, I’m working 23 hours and 59 minutes a day, but please lend me some grace for a minute as I congratulate one of my former employees. That’s just one of the greatest marketing geniuses this world has ever seen doing some marketing baby.

This is the same guy who brought us the 8th Wonder of the World:

Maybe AMC needs more t-shirt cannons.

Anyone who lived through the Adam Aron era knows this type of unnatural behavior was par for the course. This is the same guy who held a press conference at the Constitution Center when we traded for Andrew Bynum (I was there), ejaculated confetti on us after every Sixers win (there weren’t many), and took creative liberties, copyright infringement, and Philly stereotypes to a whole different level when he introduced new mascots. Marketing genius. A guy who wasn’t afraid to push the envelope. The same guy who wanted to allow a texting area at the movie theatre until he got so much backlash from customers he had to release a statement. Every time he got in front of a camera or someone interviewed him, it ended in chaos. He’s the friend who has an opinion and immediately says he was “just kidding!” after everyone vehemently disagrees with him. I gotta hand it to the guy. He’s not afraid to try. Is he typically more wrong than he is right? Absolutely. He was the perfect face of the franchise for one of the oddest times to be a Sixers fan.