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Michael Sykes

Twitter savagely roasted Joel Embiid for simply asking a question about the NBA Finals

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NBA fans are ruthless. They will never ever ever let you live down a bad tweet.

If anybody knows that, Joel Embiid knows that. The dude has basically been criminally online through his entire career.

That’s why it’s hard to believe he didn’t know exactly what he was doing when he tweeted in the middle of Game 3 of the NBA Finals about the Bucks simply handing the Celtics the NBA championship.

Everyone was just minding their business watching the game. Then, all of a sudden, this tweet from Embiid comes up out of nowhere.

“Did the bucks give them the championship?” he asked.

Basically, he’s asking if the Jrue Holiday trade is the thing that got the Celtics over the hump. As Robert Zeglinski points out here, Jrue Holiday’s stellar play results from the Celtics’ greatness and not necessarily an indictment on the Bucks. Most teams make that trade 10 times out of 10.

Also, it’s not like the Bucks traded Holiday to Boston. The Trail Blazers did! So maybe they should take the blame?

I guess Embiid thought this was a fair question to ask, so he did. Fans replied, but they sure didn’t get him any answers. Just snark.

 

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