Joel Embiid Crying About How Jayson Tatum Has A Superteam Is Extremely Embarrassing

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Listen we've heard a lot of loser type shit from Joel Embiid over the years, but this is most certainly up there. Does this man have no shame? Then again, I guess I'd be crying like this looking for every excuse in the book if the same player (Jayson Tatum) and the same team (the Boston Celtics) repeatedly kicked the shit out of me every time they've played in the playoffs since Tatum entered the league.

Every year it's the same story with Embiid and the Sixers. They "win" the offseason and THIS is the year The Process will finally get the job done. Then they lose in the 2nd round again and we start the process over. They "win" the next offseason and THAT is the year The Process and Embiid will get the job done. Then Jayson Tatum and the Celtics whoop that ass again, and around and around we go.

What I love is after each one of these failed seasons, everyone then moves the goalposts to "oh Embiid just doesn't have help" like he's played his entire career for the Hornets or something. Then if it's not the talent, it's the coach. Well now that it can't be Doc Rivers' fault, we're back to Embiid just never having a superteam and that's why he can't win like Tatum has. What a great teammate! I'm sure all his teammates love hearing Embiid continue to throw them under the bus while he repeatedly shits his pants on the biggest stage whenever the Sixers play Tatum. What a great teammate!

Now I may be wrong here, but I'm pretty sure the Celtics did not have a superteam back in 2018 when they took care of the Sixers in 5 games. That's a series Embiid shot 44/23% by the way, and the one game they won? He scored only 15 points on 6-15 shooting. That's so strange! I'm pretty sure the Celtics didn't have a superteam in the 2020 playoffs when they swept Embiid's Sixers either. Now, I may be wrong here, but I'm also pretty sure the Celtics didn't have a superteam when they beat Embiid's Sixers in 2022 either, despite PHI having a 3-2 lead. Mind you, in the two games PHI won Embiid shot 21-47 so again, this is confusing. Surely Embiid closed that series out right? 

Now that I think about it, maybe he does have a point?

He did go 5-18 in that Game 7 and the Sixers did get blown out. Why might that have been? Oh yeah, because Jayson Tatum dropped 51 right in his eyeball

I'm also pretty sure this quote did not come from this past season

so to now be crying about how unfair it is that Jayson Tatum has a superteam, suggesting that you'd be winning a whole lot more if you had better teammates when YOU'VE been a big part of the Sixers' underachievement is such a lack of awareness I think I have no choice but to sneaky respect it? 

Now I'm not blind. The 2024 NBA Champion Boston Celtics are loaded and will be for the foreseeable future. Sorry Brad Stevens is better at his job than Daryl Morey I guess? Granted all these same fanbases who cry about the Celts being a superteam are the same people that repeatedly told us Jaylen Brown sucked and had no left hand, Derrick White wasn't an All Star, Holiday was a playoff dropper and KP sucked. But now they're all these dominant players who carry Jayson Tatum, despite you know, reality

We also shouldn't pretend that Embiid has never won a game in which he shot like shit. Remember Game 5 vs NYK this past postseason? Embiid shot like shit (7-19, 1-4) and the Sixers won, how could that be??? I thought they always got blown out because he doesn't have a superteam? Last time I checked, the Sixers had the same amount of All NBA/All Star players the Celtics did this past season. Were they a superteam? 

I can't lie, these Embiid excuses/tears do bring me immense joy. And the thing is, after the Sixers once again "won" the offseason and loaded up, Embiid now has no excuse. He has his own superteam now, and in my opinion, no player enters next season with more pressure to win a ring than Embiid. Not just making the ECF or Finals, but winning it. Giannis did it, Jokic did it, Tatum did it, so let's see it. They fired Doc and brought in a championship level coach (who then lost in the 2nd round), they added Paul George and depth around Embiid, so surely there should be no excuses this time around right?

Wrong. We all know there will be if the Sixers don't finish the job and reach the top of the mountain this year. It'll be everyone else's fault but Embiid's, just like it is after every underachieving season.