Dave DuFour, Zena Keita, and Es Baraheni react to the Joel Embiid beef in Philadelphia and the hot starts for the Thunder and Cavaliers. Then, the crew talks about the game of the year so far and the Vince Carter jersey retirement.Host: Dave DuFourWith: Zena Keita & Es BaraheniExecutive Producer: Andrew Schlecht Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
What happened between Joel Embiid and the media?
Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily for November 4th, 2024. Coming up, Joel Embiid has beef in the locker room, Drake is on his worst behavior in Toronto, and we make our picks for next week. Good morning, everybody. Good morning, S. Good morning, Zena. Welcome back. Man, we had a crazy weekend. It feels like there's so much stuff happening every single night in the NBA.
And there's even stuff happening with guys who aren't playing. Joel Embiid has gotten into an altercation with a Philadelphia columnist who wrote... What I can only describe is a disrespectful piece about Joel not playing. I'm not going to give this guy any more attention than he needs, but there was a scuffle in the locker room.
Joel Embiid confronted this columnist, and according to reports from the locker room, shoved him. This is a big deal. Players shouldn't shove media people, and maybe media people shouldn't you know, make personal attacks on players who are injured or have degenerative conditions in their knees. Zena, you know, you're in locker rooms just about every week talking to players.
You ever seen anything like what we're hearing coming out of that locker room?
No, and rightfully so, because I don't think writers usually say things that cross the line in the way that this one particularly did. I mean, it had nothing to do with the point that was trying to be portrayed, which is this player should be playing, etc. Feel how you want to feel, but I have no idea how someone's child and late brother has anything to do with that topic.
You know, it's an old school sort of throwback mentality, you know, and equating fatherhood to playing basketball as is pretty ridiculous. It's childish.
And again, like we all just know better at this point. It's antiquated. That's what it is. It's just this like ancient way of thinking. And it's so ridiculous that this gets brought up. And I think the thing that I have, the issue that I take with this in general is how we got to this point.
Right.
The article got taken down because it received a lot of criticism. You know, obviously, Joel Embiid himself a couple of days ago mentioned that specific article in his media press conference. And so for the Sixers or the NBA to not step in at that point, to me, that's what was surprising. And so I'm
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