Joel Embiid’s healthy enough to beat Justin Bieber at arm wrestling
Good news, you guys: Joel Embiid is officially healthy enough to beat a Canadian pop star in an arm-wrestling match.
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Taste the fury, Justin Bieber:
Video of Justin Bieber having an arm-wrestle early this morning in California. (July 22) pic.twitter.com/zm5s0qvHtH
— JustinBieberCrew.com (@JBCrewdotcom) July 22, 2016
TASTE IT:
And now, embrace it
On one hand, this wasn’t exactly a fair fight for the Biebs, what with the Philadelphia 76ers center going a full 7 feet tall and somewhere around 260 pounds. On the other, if you’re going to take a basketball-related L, at least this is better than the last one Justin took.
Now that I’ve sufficiently whetted your appetite for Embiid-centric goodness, drink deeply of this silk spin move and detonating dunk from a summer workout:
… and come back for another round of Embiid trying to say goodbye to yesterday with a tribute to the man who chose him with the No. 3 overall pick in the 2014 NBA draft: since-resigned general manager Sam Hinkie.
#TrustTheProcess pic.twitter.com/Nc1v602YSf
— Joel Embiid (@JoelEmbiid) July 23, 2016
“He died for our sins.” Man alive, am I ready for the Joel Embiid Era to finally, hopefully, officially start.
Hat-tips to Zach Harper of CBSSports.com and The 700 Level.
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