Joel Embiid  Suspended due to shoving a columnist who writes about his son and late brother - video Dailymotion

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Things get personal and Joel Embiid's professionalism is called to question after shoving a columnist in the locker room due to him writing about his son and late brother. This results in Joel's suspension, Leroy comes to his defense.

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00:00who I wanted to briefly discuss the Joel Embiid news that came out.

00:07Oh, yeah.

00:09We we know that he got into an altercation with a reporter

00:12where he allegedly assaults him.

00:16But I mean, rightfully so, based off of the news

00:18that's coming out, that this reporter was mentioning,

00:22you know, his late brother, his child, things that are completely unnecessary

00:27in regards to covering sports.

00:29But they have made their decision.

00:33The following was released by the NBA

00:36in regards to the situation, the 76ers center.

00:40Joel Embiid has been suspended three games without pay

00:43for shoving a member of the media.

00:45It was announced today by Joe Dumas.

00:48Embiid's actions took place in the 76ers locker room

00:50following the team's 124 to 107 loss to the Grizzlies.

00:56It goes on to say mutual respect is paramount

00:59to the relationship between players and media.

01:01And the NBA, Joe Dumas said, Oh, we understand.

01:04Joel Joel was offended by the personal nature

01:07of the original version of the reporter's column.

01:11Interactions must remain professional on both sides and never turn physical.

01:16So is that that?

01:22Here's what I would say.

01:24Yes. And here's why you got to be careful.

01:28My biggest complaint about being.

01:30An athlete was it neutered you.

01:35So you have people that can do or say anything.

01:40And you're not and no, you're not going to respond to them as men.

01:46And for a person.

01:50Who is writing about sports?

01:53The other stuff that he's writing about has no place.

01:59In the article, no place.

02:02So, well, I agree with the stance to lead to.

02:09I think the writer knew where he was going with that.

02:13You see what I mean?

02:14Yeah, for sure. You got to know better, man.

02:16Yeah. And so these are people I've never.

02:20Although I don't condone condone violence.

02:24Or that type of aggression.

02:28I'm not going to get on him.

02:31For being a man.

02:34Right for, you know, thinking, hey, man, you got no right.

02:40To go after me personally, if you want to say I suck at basketball, that's fine.

02:44Leave my personal stuff out of it.

02:47And I'm more than sure the guy had a smart ass comment coming back.

02:52And that's why Joel and B went after.

02:54It didn't just end like that, because if it meant no harm. Right.

03:01And. All you had to do.

03:06Was. Say, no, no, no, hey, Joel, Joel.

03:13I don't know, like I wasn't trying to go there.

03:16I was just trying to, you know, because then he got snippy at the end with

03:19and Joel's not playing.

03:21So the whole tone of the article.

03:24Right. If you bring some personal into it,

03:26it's not going to come across very positive.

03:29Yeah, and I will say that prior to me

03:32even finding out the details of who it was and what happened,

03:38a lot of people were commenting underneath, speculating

03:40that it was a certain reporter that I can imagine is someone

03:44who gets under the skin of players or like is known.

03:48Again, right.

03:49Like so. So my question is.

03:54You know what you were doing?

03:56See, when people do things.

04:01To get a reaction.

04:04You can't then be surprised at the reaction you get.

04:07Because we're all different.

04:10You know, it's like when people come at you

04:13and you all come and collect and that's not good enough.

04:16And then they want to get you until you get riled up.

04:20And then you react the way they want you to react.

04:23And I'm just saying it ain't going to be in your,

04:27you know, confines of what you accept.

04:30You see what I mean?

04:31So I just think we need to leave the personal stuff out of it.

04:36You can talk about Joel and being in the basketball

04:38and the fact that he's not playing.

04:41But at no point in time, like even down here.

04:44Right. We had an issue.

04:48We didn't know what the issue was.

04:50Did he do an excellent job of keeping personal stuff out of it?

04:54Yeah. Then we found out with the

04:57with the Netflix thing with Jimmy.

05:00But nobody went at him like that.

05:03Right. For sure.

05:05And so you keep it professional.

05:09And so the fact that.

05:14You will look at a reporter who's been doing it

05:16for 20 plus years or older guy.

05:19And then look at a 20, 30 year old

05:22and say the 30 year old is supposed to be more professional than him.

05:27Is a joke in itself.

05:29We can all be professional, but if you want professionalism,

05:33how about giving it?

05:35Nobody ever thinks about that.

05:37So what, Joel, probably shouldn't have been that way.

05:41But at the same time underneath, I'm doing a fist pump because, yeah,

05:45you asked for the beast and you got it. Yeah.

05:49Sometimes people try to be tough.

05:51So, hey, everybody get tough till they get punched in the face.

05:55Then they ain't so tough.

05:57Then they why? Why?

05:59Oh, too late now, buddy. Too late.

06:02How would you think that I did it to you?

06:04Right. Exactly.

Joel Embiid Suspended due to shoving a columnist who writes about his son and late brother

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