Yesssss now the truth is leaking out, now we're getting some of those juicy details that we wanted. Embiid starting to speak up today with his recent comments
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Earlier this week, a report came out from Sam Amick at The Athletic, which more or less said that Ben Simmons was done with Joel Embiid and didn’t want to play with him anymore. It didn’t have anything to do with the off-court relationship, but was purely an Xs and Os type of things. A stylistic clash.
From the story, a snippet:
There’s nothing personal about this choice, it seems, but the 25-year-old Simmons has clearly decided that his career is better off without Embiid blocking the runways in the paint that he so badly needs to succeed.
As he sees it, sources say, the organization’s choice to build its basketball ecosystem around Embiid’s style simply isn’t conducive to the way he needs to play. So while Embiid insisted to reporters on Monday that he wants Simmons back, this much is clear: The feeling is not mutual.
Embiid was asked about this Thursday at Sixers training camp, and this is what he said, courtesy of Kyle Neubeck at Voice:
Key part of what Embiid said is this:
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Embiid on Ben, partial: "Our teams have always been built around his needs. So it's just kind of surprising to see. Even going back to, the reason we signed Al, we got rid of Jimmy, which I still think was a mistake, just to make sure he needed the ball in his hands."