Sielski: Why watching made Wentz and Embiid better

It would seem impossible at first to find any shared characteristics between a 6-foot-5 quarterback from North Dakota who uses his spare time to bow-hunt bucks and a 7-foot-2 center from Cameroon who uses Twitter to trash-talk his teammates about Play Station soccer.

But as all of us are learning, there is more to both Carson Wentz and Joel Embiid than the eye can see. Broadly speaking, they are generating excitement around here in similar ways, for similar reasons. From the available evidence, they appear to be prodigies, and for the moment, the optimism about each one's future - Wentz with the Eagles, Embiid with the 76ers - is boundless.

What's funny about this optimism, of course, is that…