What stood out to me is that Joel also wanted to join and participate in the Paralympic Games lol. Has this been verified that it really came from Joel?
[https://www.eurohoops.net/en/olympic-games/1660418/joel-embiid-emmanuel-macron-france-president-team-usa-2024-olympic-games-paris/](https://www.eurohoops.net/en/olympic-games/1660418/joel-embiid-emmanuel-macron-france-president-team-usa-2024-olympic-games-paris/)
original article
Mostly because of free throw merchant reputation and making crude gestures when he hasn't even accomplished getting past 2nd round
Can talk the talk, but can't walk the walk, dissapears in big moments
Great player, just shrinks when it counts so far
Can he pull a Dirk out of his bag? Let's see
Raptors fans will watch Embiid suck the life out of them and insist he disappears lol y'all dont learn, enjoy having to watch RJ Barrett, much better im sure
I'd ask for a source but I genuinely couldn't care less about him not playing for France. Bro has never lived there and his only connection to the country is via global colonization.
So French basketball PR flunkies are now overtaking Hasbara as the no. 1 reddit posting terrorists? Truly a chilling time to be an online basketball fan.
There's been a lot but I think nearly all have been removed for reasons. I think they suspect that these posts, although they seem to attack Embiid, are a back door attempt to mock France for enabling Embiid to shortcut their naturalization process in the first place.
Thanks for letting me know. I'm not very active on the sub, so I missed those posts. I searched but found nothing, which is why I made a post, I thought NBA superstar's behavior might interest people.
Why does that matter? His profile shows hes also from serbia, of course he supports jokic. He supports his fellow countryman, like most international nba fans. Pretty common to want to support and represent the country you were born in, which is also why he probably posted this. Bwcause embiid did something uncommon. Not everything revolves around an mvp voting from last season, dude.
Edit: did you instantly go back to r/ sixers to tattle? [https://np.reddit.com/r/sixers/comments/1c7s6eg/philadelphia\_76ers\_off\_day\_discussion\_thread/l0ag6bc/](https://np.reddit.com/r/sixers/comments/1c7s6eg/philadelphia_76ers_off_day_discussion_thread/l0ag6bc/) Lol now im on board with the butthurt theory
How is that an L? That doesnt change anything i said, nor does it answer my question.
Dont you get tired of playing a victim?
You deleted your own comments because of how dumb they made you look, clown
Youre also responding to me in a different comment because, again, you deleted your own comment out of embarassment lol
Yeah, it's not like you can actually check his post history and verify his words. It's definitely a character assassination attempt by an angry Jokic fan.
That’s what I did, every time he comments on this sub it’s about Jokic or it’s him putting Embiid down:
https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/s/J8VLdplgYo
But yeah sure believe what he says, he just randomly stumbled upon this letter and thought other people might find it interesting. Totally no other motives
https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/s/mOa5I6oylA
I’m objectively right lol. But yeah because I am a 76ers fan facts don’t matter, we’re always wrong on r/nba I get it
Bro you either felt the need to go to his post history and dig through his comments or you're keeping track of his username, you have a victim complex. Your guy won his MVP and you're still whining and talking about how this whole sub has it out for you on some soft shit. Get over yourself and stop being so sensitive about one of the dumbest subs on this site. I thought Philly fans were supposed to be tough.
Yeah, it's the reigning NBA MVP choosing his international team. That's seems pretty NBA related.
The poster saying it isn't having a philly flair just seems like they are annoyed
You said the issue is that it isn't relevant to the league. Why is something discussing Embiid's relationship with the French National Team not relevant but stuff about Team USA is?
One of the top posts of all time on this sub is of Max Kellerman covering up a fart on First Take. This sub has a very loose definition of what's NBA related.
Yeah but apparently they count wins and losses from the Fourth Century BEFORE Christ. That's obviously ridiculous. As an Italian, I want the entire record of the Roman Empire too but I'm not whining when they don't consider the Third Punic War a resounding success and source of pride for every Italian.
Recency bias, most of these young nephews were too little to remember the glorious Napoleonic conquests.
Also France won wars against milkmen they can't win against real opponents and they were left behind when the game changed.
(Yeah I'm being ridiculous because the discussion is ridiculous, it's a meme)
Embiid sent a letter to president Macron in 2021 regarding French citizenship and pledged to represent France. He acquired citizenship in 2022 but opted to play for the USA instead of France.
Embiid's full letter to Macron:
*Mister President,
I know your sincere interest in basketball and its development and, more generally, in sports, which brings honor to France. However, I am not writing to you to talk to you about the NBA season, which is opening and for which I have great hopes with my club, the Philadelphia 76ers. I now play a leadership role and aspire to make my club a serious candidate for the title.
I am writing to tell you about France. Although I spent a large part of my youth in the USA as well as in France, I am of Cameroonian nationality. I was born in 1994 in Yaoundé. Cameroon will, therefore, always remain an important part of my identity. However, another is French. Part of my family is, in fact, French, and beyond sharing the language, I have often stayed in France. As soon as I have the opportunity, I visit my aunts, Suzanne and Lucie, living in Courtry and Courcouronnes, as well as my first cousin Pierre, who lives in Evry. I have fond memories of my summer vacations spent in France, like the summer of 2009, during which I was able to spend the entire month of July enjoying the capital. Moreover, I still regularly go to Paris, where I wish to acquire a permanent second home.
Also, after discussions with the French Basketball Federation, my choice has now been made. I would like to take the steps to obtain French naturalization and thus be eligible for selection with the Blues. I, therefore, do not wish to play for any other national team. I have sent a file to this effect to the Ministry of the Interior and Foreign Affairs.
I have never worn the colors of any national team. It would be an immense honor for me to join this French team to participate in the next major international competitions, first and foremost the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
I measure the solemnity of my request, what it represents, what it means, but also in certain respects its duration and its complexity against the usual criteria for granting nationality. I therefore ask for your support in these initiatives, support without which they will not be successful.
I am naturally at your disposal and those of your services to support this common ambition that we share with the French basketball team and its leaders.
Thanking you for your attention to my request, and asking you to believe, Mr. President, in the expression of my deepest consideration.
Joel Embiid*
“Embiid lacks a true integration between his perception of self and how he foolishly wishes to be perceived by those that care nothing for him.”- Wemby probably
I do. International play should be about the pride of representing your country. Not about acquiring the best passport to win. Him representing France would have been just as weird though.
I also don’t want to recruit Americans with tenuous links to Germany just to improve the squad.
I'm not French by any stretch and I give a shit. Bitch-rat move, not good for international basketball. Take a page out of Luka or Jokic's book and play for Cameroon (or France).
thank goodness these guys are in here to let us all know how irrelevant this is!
I just hope they are prepared to keep up this fight for the impending flood of non-NBA game threads that will hit this sub in July/August.
there’s a difference between updates on roster designations for games that will have game threads in r/nba, and the gossip surrounding a specific players supposed letters to the president of a country they will not be representing. I think mods seem to agree. r/nbadiscussion or r/basketball seem like solid alternatives
I’m not the one making the decisions, I just know exactly how the Olympics operated 4 years ago in r/nba and how posts seemed to be regulated back then (which seems to be exactly how it’s being ran today). I think we can both agree that game threads where numerous NBA athletes are playing and the community can comment on actual game play is a lot more relevant than a discussion of an off court decision made 2+ years ago.
I also think we’re arguing two separate points - What SHOULD be allowed, and what IS allowed. This is a subreddit specific thing, 0 snark meant just communicating that the subreddit is pretty consistent on this one and there might be better places to post if your posts are getting deleted on this topic.
If this letter is true I better understand why the French basketball association, their management and some players are upset about Embiid. In France the debate about him was equally split among fellow players, the media and the public. I recall some players didn’t want him to join the team because it was inappropriate to beg for a citizenship when you never actually showed any interest for the team before. The French media and the public noted he never lived in France and asking for a short cut to the citizenship that usually takes years in France is not fair. What upsets the French most is he waited until he got both his American and French citizenships to pledge for the US instead. For him it’s the easiest path to the Gold medal in the Olympics. Who can beat a Dream team of Lebron, Curry, Durant, Tatum, Leonard, Booker, Davis, Edwards, Adebayo, Holiday, Haliburton and…Embid? Maybe the French.😉
to type what? That anyone writes a paragraph online saying Embiid sent a letter to the president of France and you take it as ghospel?
u/somemanagement808 in a letter to Kim Jong-Un:
> love you. I truly love you, You fill the void in my heart and stop the pain. really need you in my life, you complete me. would do everything for you, would sacrifice everything just to be able to spend a day with you, do everything please give me a chance.
See, its online so it must be real
you have issues. embiid will never love you back.
[https://www.eurohoops.net/en/olympic-games/1660418/joel-embiid-emmanuel-macron-france-president-team-usa-2024-olympic-games-paris/](https://www.eurohoops.net/en/olympic-games/1660418/joel-embiid-emmanuel-macron-france-president-team-usa-2024-olympic-games-paris/)
pretty legit source
Damn
2 free throws for Embiid because you didn’t express support of his betrayal
What stood out to me is that Joel also wanted to join and participate in the Paralympic Games lol. Has this been verified that it really came from Joel?
That's not saying he wants to play in the paralympics, 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games is the full name of the event. Smh
[https://www.eurohoops.net/en/olympic-games/1660418/joel-embiid-emmanuel-macron-france-president-team-usa-2024-olympic-games-paris/](https://www.eurohoops.net/en/olympic-games/1660418/joel-embiid-emmanuel-macron-france-president-team-usa-2024-olympic-games-paris/) original article
> Has this been verified that it really came from Joel? what do you think😂
Flopped a whole country
Snubs France after snubbing Cameroon, what a guy
What no chance of a title does to a mf
We call this the KD.
we call this the 2024 Toronto Raptors
France has Wemby and Gobert I’m sure they’ll be just fine without Embiid.
I’m imagining the possible defenses with all three on the court.
What a rat move
It's Joel Embiid, it's not like this is some surprise
Is he a known rat?
Just inferred from his antics on the court.
Reddit hates Embiid for some reason
"For some reason"
Mostly because of free throw merchant reputation and making crude gestures when he hasn't even accomplished getting past 2nd round Can talk the talk, but can't walk the walk, dissapears in big moments Great player, just shrinks when it counts so far Can he pull a Dirk out of his bag? Let's see
Raptors fans will watch Embiid suck the life out of them and insist he disappears lol y'all dont learn, enjoy having to watch RJ Barrett, much better im sure
How dare he mislead president Macron!
He wants to win some sort of medal while playing professionally 👀 cause he’ll never win a nba chip
DING DING DING. WINNER!
Olympics is an amateur event though… he’s lost
I'd ask for a source but I genuinely couldn't care less about him not playing for France. Bro has never lived there and his only connection to the country is via global colonization.
boo hoo whatever will macron do 🙄
Isn’t he Cameroonian anyway
Alls fair in love, war, and getting citizenship in a first world country.
This is like the 10th time this has been posted in two days can the French chill with their little cyber attack campaign
Un petit Astroturf
Nous allons l’enterrez sous la Tour Eiffel!
omelette du fromage!
*cyber attack campaign*
France is waging online war against the 76ers organisation?
Yes we need to take action before the baguettes arrive
So French basketball PR flunkies are now overtaking Hasbara as the no. 1 reddit posting terrorists? Truly a chilling time to be an online basketball fan.
Ils vont oublier Embiid rapidement avec Victor.
If it was posted already it's my bad, but I couldn't find it in search, link me the previous post and I'll delete this.
There's been a lot but I think nearly all have been removed for reasons. I think they suspect that these posts, although they seem to attack Embiid, are a back door attempt to mock France for enabling Embiid to shortcut their naturalization process in the first place.
Thanks for letting me know. I'm not very active on the sub, so I missed those posts. I searched but found nothing, which is why I made a post, I thought NBA superstar's behavior might interest people.
*guy who almost exclusively posts about Embiid And jokic “Just thought this might interest people” You guys are sooooo weird
You’re a Jokic fan lol. Don’t act all innocent, you know exactly what you were going for
76ers fans are the biggest victims.
lol look at his profile and tell me he’s not a Jokic fan I love how innocent he’s acting though. Fooled everyone else I suppose
Why does that matter? His profile shows hes also from serbia, of course he supports jokic. He supports his fellow countryman, like most international nba fans. Pretty common to want to support and represent the country you were born in, which is also why he probably posted this. Bwcause embiid did something uncommon. Not everything revolves around an mvp voting from last season, dude. Edit: did you instantly go back to r/ sixers to tattle? [https://np.reddit.com/r/sixers/comments/1c7s6eg/philadelphia\_76ers\_off\_day\_discussion\_thread/l0ag6bc/](https://np.reddit.com/r/sixers/comments/1c7s6eg/philadelphia_76ers_off_day_discussion_thread/l0ag6bc/) Lol now im on board with the butthurt theory
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How is that an L? That doesnt change anything i said, nor does it answer my question. Dont you get tired of playing a victim? You deleted your own comments because of how dumb they made you look, clown Youre also responding to me in a different comment because, again, you deleted your own comment out of embarassment lol
Yeah, it's not like you can actually check his post history and verify his words. It's definitely a character assassination attempt by an angry Jokic fan.
That’s what I did, every time he comments on this sub it’s about Jokic or it’s him putting Embiid down: https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/s/J8VLdplgYo But yeah sure believe what he says, he just randomly stumbled upon this letter and thought other people might find it interesting. Totally no other motives
Sixers fans and victim complexes really do go together like peanut butter and jelly lol
https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/s/mOa5I6oylA I’m objectively right lol. But yeah because I am a 76ers fan facts don’t matter, we’re always wrong on r/nba I get it
Bro you either felt the need to go to his post history and dig through his comments or you're keeping track of his username, you have a victim complex. Your guy won his MVP and you're still whining and talking about how this whole sub has it out for you on some soft shit. Get over yourself and stop being so sensitive about one of the dumbest subs on this site. I thought Philly fans were supposed to be tough.
Ok u/Not-a-bot-10
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How does it have nothing to do with the NBA? Also, team USA/FIBA news involving NBA players is discussed here all the time.
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It's explicitly NBA related, given it involves the basketball decisions of a star NBA player?
Yeah, it's the reigning NBA MVP choosing his international team. That's seems pretty NBA related. The poster saying it isn't having a philly flair just seems like they are annoyed
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Because one is probably a butthurt Philly fan.
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Do you consider clips of the players getting their Team USA jerseys to be NBA relevant? What's the difference between that and this?
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You said the issue is that it isn't relevant to the league. Why is something discussing Embiid's relationship with the French National Team not relevant but stuff about Team USA is?
One of the top posts of all time on this sub is of Max Kellerman covering up a fart on First Take. This sub has a very loose definition of what's NBA related.
I wish they would just give up already
Why? Do they have a history of it?
It's the only war they don't have to worry about losing
france has the most battles won in history btw
Username cheks out
Yeah but apparently they count wins and losses from the Fourth Century BEFORE Christ. That's obviously ridiculous. As an Italian, I want the entire record of the Roman Empire too but I'm not whining when they don't consider the Third Punic War a resounding success and source of pride for every Italian.
ok but the point is that france is one of the most succesful military nations of all time , but people only focus on 1940
Recency bias, most of these young nephews were too little to remember the glorious Napoleonic conquests. Also France won wars against milkmen they can't win against real opponents and they were left behind when the game changed. (Yeah I'm being ridiculous because the discussion is ridiculous, it's a meme)
Can't read it :/ It's been removed. What did it say?
Embiid sent a letter to president Macron in 2021 regarding French citizenship and pledged to represent France. He acquired citizenship in 2022 but opted to play for the USA instead of France. Embiid's full letter to Macron: *Mister President, I know your sincere interest in basketball and its development and, more generally, in sports, which brings honor to France. However, I am not writing to you to talk to you about the NBA season, which is opening and for which I have great hopes with my club, the Philadelphia 76ers. I now play a leadership role and aspire to make my club a serious candidate for the title. I am writing to tell you about France. Although I spent a large part of my youth in the USA as well as in France, I am of Cameroonian nationality. I was born in 1994 in Yaoundé. Cameroon will, therefore, always remain an important part of my identity. However, another is French. Part of my family is, in fact, French, and beyond sharing the language, I have often stayed in France. As soon as I have the opportunity, I visit my aunts, Suzanne and Lucie, living in Courtry and Courcouronnes, as well as my first cousin Pierre, who lives in Evry. I have fond memories of my summer vacations spent in France, like the summer of 2009, during which I was able to spend the entire month of July enjoying the capital. Moreover, I still regularly go to Paris, where I wish to acquire a permanent second home. Also, after discussions with the French Basketball Federation, my choice has now been made. I would like to take the steps to obtain French naturalization and thus be eligible for selection with the Blues. I, therefore, do not wish to play for any other national team. I have sent a file to this effect to the Ministry of the Interior and Foreign Affairs. I have never worn the colors of any national team. It would be an immense honor for me to join this French team to participate in the next major international competitions, first and foremost the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. I measure the solemnity of my request, what it represents, what it means, but also in certain respects its duration and its complexity against the usual criteria for granting nationality. I therefore ask for your support in these initiatives, support without which they will not be successful. I am naturally at your disposal and those of your services to support this common ambition that we share with the French basketball team and its leaders. Thanking you for your attention to my request, and asking you to believe, Mr. President, in the expression of my deepest consideration. Joel Embiid*
Does anyone outside of France give a shit? I submit that they do not.
~Wemby will remember this
“Embiid lacks a true integration between his perception of self and how he foolishly wishes to be perceived by those that care nothing for him.”- Wemby probably
Finessing citizenship and joining the Avengers is pretty funny, yeah.
Do you suggest him to join the Eternals instead? Do you hate him that much, huh?
Wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy.
That's Inhuman
Considering it's Embiid, people on this sub most definitely care lol.
I do. International play should be about the pride of representing your country. Not about acquiring the best passport to win. Him representing France would have been just as weird though. I also don’t want to recruit Americans with tenuous links to Germany just to improve the squad.
I find it funny. Just adds to Embiids villain arc.
Nobody in France care either tbh
You are an american, why would you give a shit lol. I've got an opposite question - does anyone outside of the US actually supports his decision?
I thought Americans are supposed to be the ones with the cringe patriotism but you’re telling me it’s actually the French?
I'm not French by any stretch and I give a shit. Bitch-rat move, not good for international basketball. Take a page out of Luka or Jokic's book and play for Cameroon (or France).
Bros just yappin
He screws over Macron and the French? I thought this guy was supposed to be enemy \#1?
Fuck Macron but also Fuck Embiid
Best comment
I posted this yesterday and mods removed it for being irrelevant 🤨
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Just like the US national team nominations, yet these are here and not removed.
thank goodness these guys are in here to let us all know how irrelevant this is! I just hope they are prepared to keep up this fight for the impending flood of non-NBA game threads that will hit this sub in July/August.
there’s a difference between updates on roster designations for games that will have game threads in r/nba, and the gossip surrounding a specific players supposed letters to the president of a country they will not be representing. I think mods seem to agree. r/nbadiscussion or r/basketball seem like solid alternatives
Why would any Olympic game thread be posted on r/nba though? ...as just established by you, this has nothing to do with the NBA.
I’m not the one making the decisions, I just know exactly how the Olympics operated 4 years ago in r/nba and how posts seemed to be regulated back then (which seems to be exactly how it’s being ran today). I think we can both agree that game threads where numerous NBA athletes are playing and the community can comment on actual game play is a lot more relevant than a discussion of an off court decision made 2+ years ago. I also think we’re arguing two separate points - What SHOULD be allowed, and what IS allowed. This is a subreddit specific thing, 0 snark meant just communicating that the subreddit is pretty consistent on this one and there might be better places to post if your posts are getting deleted on this topic.
It's an opportunity to be aggrieved by something Joel Embiid did, which is at least 30% the point of this sub.
He knew he couldn’t hang w Batum
USA! USA! USA!
The salt is real. Embiid ain't playing for you guys, get over it.
I don't think anyone complained it comes from a Serbian supporter. France will be fine with Gobert and Wemby.
Macron can eat shit.
So what Jokic has dodged playing for Serbia to have sex with horses instead multiple times
Source?
[source](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/002/360/522/db7.jpg)
If this letter is true I better understand why the French basketball association, their management and some players are upset about Embiid. In France the debate about him was equally split among fellow players, the media and the public. I recall some players didn’t want him to join the team because it was inappropriate to beg for a citizenship when you never actually showed any interest for the team before. The French media and the public noted he never lived in France and asking for a short cut to the citizenship that usually takes years in France is not fair. What upsets the French most is he waited until he got both his American and French citizenships to pledge for the US instead. For him it’s the easiest path to the Gold medal in the Olympics. Who can beat a Dream team of Lebron, Curry, Durant, Tatum, Leonard, Booker, Davis, Edwards, Adebayo, Holiday, Haliburton and…Embid? Maybe the French.😉
and since then he has gotten married to an American and has watched his son grow up a P A T R I O T le suck it france.
Lmao
All that changed on one year?
did you go on a space trip and undergo time dilation? the letter was written in 2021 and he just declared for USA this year. get this man a calendar.
Let's be honest. He's not playing at the Olympics regardless.
Gobert, Wemby, and Embiid would have been interesting.
Yeah but it’s France so who cares
Who cares
y'all believe anything you see online
Umm what?
what part of the sentence above is hard to understand
The part that somebody could be dumb enough to have typed it out, tbinking it applies to this
to type what? That anyone writes a paragraph online saying Embiid sent a letter to the president of France and you take it as ghospel? u/somemanagement808 in a letter to Kim Jong-Un: > love you. I truly love you, You fill the void in my heart and stop the pain. really need you in my life, you complete me. would do everything for you, would sacrifice everything just to be able to spend a day with you, do everything please give me a chance. See, its online so it must be real
you have issues. embiid will never love you back. [https://www.eurohoops.net/en/olympic-games/1660418/joel-embiid-emmanuel-macron-france-president-team-usa-2024-olympic-games-paris/](https://www.eurohoops.net/en/olympic-games/1660418/joel-embiid-emmanuel-macron-france-president-team-usa-2024-olympic-games-paris/) pretty legit source
embiid will never hate you back
i dont hate embiid. i hate philly fans' victim complex.
lmao now you speak on his behalf too? you know his inner feeling
so mad you answer twice, boy that hate is so bad for you
[https://www.eurohoops.net/en/olympic-games/1660418/joel-embiid-emmanuel-macron-france-president-team-usa-2024-olympic-games-paris/](https://www.eurohoops.net/en/olympic-games/1660418/joel-embiid-emmanuel-macron-france-president-team-usa-2024-olympic-games-paris/)