At the “whistle meter”, Joel Embiid remains number 1 at the Pierre-Mauroy stadium, and on Wednesday, during the warm-up, the Sixers pivot even asked the crowd to boo him more… It's classic with the new player from the United States, who is always so provocative. On the side of his teammates, we discovered that the Cameroonian was not welcome in France, and Anthony Edwards is having fun with it.
“I don't understand what's going on… I don't understand why he's being booed all the time.” reacted the Wolves full-back. “You've got Wemby and Rudy, why have them all? You've got Wemby and Rudy, what more do you need? You want to play with three guys who are 7'3″ and taller? Well, at the same time, that would be hard to beat…”
Joel Embiid discusses political choice
Another reaction, that of Bam Adebayo, very good on Wednesday against South Sudan as Anthony Davis' understudy. “We understood what the public wanted and we understood why they were booing him. But he's one of us, and when you're one of us, you stick together through thick and thin.”
Asked again about his choice to prefer the United States to France, where he also has a passport, Embiid spoke of a personal and political decision. “I want my family to be safe, and relations between France and Cameroon, or Africa in general, are not good,” Embiid had declared. “There is a lot of reluctance to drive the French out of the country because there have been so many years of oppression. That was my mentality.”
