Joel Embiid Jokes That He Would Rather Retire Than Join Tyrese Haliburton And The Indiana Pacers
Sports Illustrated: With Netflix releasing 'Court of Gold,' a documentary about Team USA's journey through the 2024 Olympic run in Paris, France, a conversation between Embiid and Indiana Pacers star Tyrese Haliburton created a viral moment on social media this week. Haliburton jokingly attempted to recruit Embiid to the Pacers. In his career, Embiid has played in just 450 out of a possible 860 games, including games this year. That means he's barely played more than half of the possible games.The extension he just signed makes things even worse. He has played in just 17 games this year, right after signing a three-year, $193 million deal.
Haliburton is out here like he's some mid major college coach desperately trying to get big recruits to come check out what the Missouri Valley Conference has to offer. Yeah, this smaller school might not be up to the same standards as some other power conference schools, but if you simply love playing ball and getting black out drunk in a corn field - you'll love the state Indiana.
Got to respect the hustle, but this feels like it was an invite because Tyrese is too polite. Yeah, we offered this recruit something, but the real booster $ went towards Hali trying to lure Ant Man to Indy with a van full of white women - Rick Pitino style.
Shitting on Indiana for being a boring place to live is too easy. It's like shitting on Joel Embiid for never making the Eastern Conference Finals. Low hanging fruit. BUT, if I'm Tyrese Haliburton, I reverse Sike Embiid's ass here. Tell his fat ass that he can't ride Indy's coattails past the second round the playoffs, AND if Embiid can't stay healthy for a full season in Philly, he'd be load managing the entire regular season running at the Pacer's pace.
Where is Philly this year in the Eastern Conference? I had to click and expand the standings to find them. Paul George has more clips uploaded to YouTube than made field goals this season. Not great. Meanwhile, despite a slow start to the season, a healthy Pacers roster is sitting in a better spot at the All-Star break than they were at last season. Which feels impossible after the 10-15 sky is falling start to the season.
Yeah, we might only have one halfway decent night club and lose during the playoffs to a super team located in a warm climate city, or any semblance of a public transit system, but at least Indy is competitive? If only young millionaires loved reasonably priced cities where you could raise a family, and not beaches where you can fuck the hottest models.
I haven't had time to watch, but I'm hearing Court Of Gold (Netflix) and We Beat The Dream Team (HBO) are two solid basketball docs. Probably smart for them to drop after All-Star break, because people would have spent the weekend consuming good basketball content.