The Philadelphia 76ers’ season already feels like it’s sliding toward the tank, as they fell to 1-4 with a loss to the Memphis Grizzlies on Saturday, or worse, Joel Embiid. he pushed a journalist in the locker room later, according to ESPN’s Shams Charania. The league is aware and starting an investigation about the incident, according to more than one study.
The incident was described by the Associated Press as follows:
Embiid participated with Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Marcus Hayes, who discussed the actor’s late brother and his son, both named Arthur, in columns that questioned Embiid’s professionalism and his goal of not being in the circumstances and then playing in the Paris Olympic Games. Embiid has yet to play in games for the 76ers this season.
When reporters entered the locker room to talk to the players, Embiid stood and looked at Hayes.
“Next time you bring up my dead brother and my son again, you’re going to see what I’m going to do to you and I’m going to have to…live with the consequences,” Embiid told Hayes. .
Embiid persevered, with multiple instances of profanity in the following sentences. Hayes offered an apology, which Embiid didn’t need. “That’s not the fucking first time.” Embiid mentioned.
Embiid soon mentioned that it doesn’t help with what the hounds say. “But you do,” Hayes responded.
Embiid seemed to make the most noise at the time, and not long afterward he boosted Hayes as members of the team’s nation’s family came between the two. Another PR guy moved Tyrese Maxey’s interview to the hallway outside the storage room, looking for clear reporters.
At the same time, a team security person asked the media not to report on what happened. Embiid yelled over the safety.
“They can do whatever they want,” Embiid said. “I don’t give a damn.”
Kyle Neubeck, a Philadelphia reporter who covers the Sixers for PHLY Sports, was once informed of the incident and provided a detailed account of the events on the PHLY podcast.
“The essential thing is that we have our press conference with [Sixers coach] Nick Nurse, we’re in the locker room, Joel. [Embiid] is sitting there…Marcus Hayes, everyone knows he was on Joel’s radar this week, Marcus was present in the locker room, and the moment Joel realized he was there, [they] We engaged in a verbal tug-of-war,” says Neubeck.
“Obviously we cannot repeat many of the words that were said in this program,” Neubeck insisted, “however, the essence of what once was, [from Embiid to Hayes]: ‘You’ll say it sucks, you’ll say whatever you want from me as a participant… never put my dead brother’s name in your mouth, don’t talk about my audience, no’ I don’t transfer them to this. You need to talk to me like a person and communicate with me about basketball, that’s another. But when you talk about my audience again, we assume we have real problems.”
“They go back and forth, and at some point, say between 90 seconds and two minutes of this back and forth, Joel pushes [Marcus]team security intervenes, the players surround the situation and everyone disperses,” concluded Neubeck.
According to ESPN’s Ramona Shelburne, the push was on the reporter’s shoulder.
As noted above, Embiid was not shy about expressing his frustration on Friday about the way the media has portrayed him – in his view – as a man who has not made circumstances a concern and has not persistently shown himself for your team, calling it a “b—-hit” Furthermore, he has accomplished “too much for this damn city” to be run that way. The closest thing to quote was the story written by Hayes, who certainly mentioned Embiid’s son and his deceased brother.
We may continue to update this story as we learn more information.
