Put yourself in Joel Embiid’s enormous shoes for a moment.
You’re dealing with Bell’s palsy, a condition that weakens the muscles on one side of your face. It makes it hard to blink and even do something as simple as take a drink. You’ve suffered migraines for the last couple weeks — the most recent one being so bad that you had to miss shootaround. You’re also still not fully back from the meniscus surgery you underwent in early February.
On top of that, nearly 20,000 people are cursing your name.
“If I’ve got to be the punching bag and you hear a lot of ‘F Embiid,’ that’s OK,” Embiid told reporters, “I love it.