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Joel Embiid is often exhausted. A 7-foot, 280-pound center who dreamt of being a volleyball player growing up, born in Yaoundé, Cameroon on March 16, 1994. That makes the Big Fella 27 years old, starting basketball at the late age of 15 striving to be like his Idol Hakeem Olajuwon, who grew up not too far from JoJo in Nigeria. Luc Mbah A Moute hosted a pre-selection camp where kids from Cameroon could come together and compete for five spots at an annual basketball without borders camp. Before winning the job and catching the eyes of NBA talent — and the Sixers — the only English Embiid knew was “good morning”.