Over the years, Joel Embiid has made no bones about it: he feels his life is like a movie. He has opined on the topic consistently, most recently in the lede to his firsthand look through the rearview mirror for The Players’ Tribune. He’s been saying it for years:
It’s hard to argue with him. From playing volleyball in Cameroon, to playing basketball at 16 years old under the stewardship of Luc Mbah a Moute, to Montverde, to Kansas, to Twitter, to Philadelphia, to Rihanna’s DMs, to breaking his back, to breaking his foot, to breaking his foot again, to Qatar, to the All-Star game — listen, there’s a lot.