Joel Embiid is a professional basketball player for the Philadelphia in the NBA. He is Cameroonian and American. He played college basketball for one year with the Kansas Jayhawks. In the 2014 NBA draft, the 76ers picked him third overall.
Since being picked third overall in the 2014 NBA Draft, 2022–23 NBA Most Valuable Player Joel Embiid has been a star for the Philadelphia. After 433 games, in which he started all of them, the seven-time All-Star has averaged 27.9 points, 11.2 rebounds, 3.6 assists, and 31.9 minutes per game.
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Philadelphia, PA (CBS) – Following Thursday night’s 125–114 win over the New York Knicks, Sixers center Joel Embiid said that he had been treated for Bell’s palsy. Embiid got 50 points in Game 3 for the Sixers, which was the most in his playoff career.
He made 50.4% of his shots from the field, 34.1% from three-point range, and 82.6% from the free throw line.
Embiid was born in Cameroon and mostly played volleyball and soccer as a child. In 2011, he was at a camp when former NBA player Luc Richard Mbah a Moute saw him and encouraged him to play high school basketball in the United States. He went to The Rock School in Gainesville, Florida, and played in both the Jordan Brand Classic and the Nike Hoops Summit. Later, he got a basketball scholarship to Kansas University.
“The Process” won the NBA’s regular season scoring title in 2021–22, becoming the first seven-footer since Shaquille O’Neal in 2000 and the only player from outside of the United States to do so. He was the third 76er to do so, after Wilt Chamberlain and Allen Iverson. He was the first center since former 76ers Moses Malone to average more than 30 points per game for a full season (1982), with an average of 30.6 points per game. He did it again the next year, getting 33.1 points per game.
The 2023–24 season was more of the same for Joel Embiid. He averaged 34.7 points, 5.6 assists, 1.2 steals, and 11 rebounds per game. The NBA’s most valuable player was made an NBA All-Star for 2024. This is his seventh All-Star selection.
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