“Most Skilled Center of All-Time” Twitter admires Joel Embiid’s Dedication to Better his Craft by Emulating Jordan and Kobe


“Most Skilled Center of All-Time” Twitter admires Joel Embiid’s Dedication to Better his Craft by Emulating Jordan and Kobe

Joel Embiid's moves being compared to Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant

Joel Embiid is one of the most skilled centers of all time. He is just into the 6th season in his NBA career and is already a 5x NBA All-Star. Apart from this, he has several All-NBA and All-Defensive honors to his name too. He is not only the center but also the centerpiece of the Sixers franchise.

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Joel Embiid
Joel Embiid

Drafted in 2014 as the number three pick overall, Joel Embiid missed his first two years in the NBA owing to injuries. He started his NBA career in 2016-17. Embiid has been an injury-riddled player for most of his ongoing prime. In the past five seasons, he has played 51, 51, 64, 63, and 31 games respectively. He has played 39 games already this season and looks good to be a potential MVP candidate till the end of the season.

Joel Embiid
Joel Embiid

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The 76ers traveled to Dallas to take on the Dallas Mavericks on Friday night. During the game, a video clip was shown that has been doing rounds on the internet. The video showed how Joel Embiid borrows the pages from the playbooks of legends like Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan. A lot of post moves that Embiid uses look strikingly similar to those of a lot of legends.

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The videos match Embiid’s fadeaways to that of Michael Jordan’s fadeaways after being posted up. Since, Kobe Bryant himself borrowed a lot of moves from Jordan, Embiid’s moves show shades of the Black Mamba too. Kobe Bryant’s post up into hesitation fake pumps to get the layup are also used by Embiid a lot.

Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant
Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant

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Twitter reacts to Joel Embiid’s stark similarity with Jordan and Kobe 

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Joel Embiid has been very vocal about how much he respects and tries to emulate the legends of the league. Not only Jordan’s fadeaways and Kobe’s turn-around up-and-under but Embiid has also been seen using Hakeem Olajuwon’s Dream Shake. His paint domination has even been compared to prime Shaquille O’Neal. Besides, Embiid has also been showing how well he can handle the Sixers after Ben Simmons‘ refusal to play. Simmons used to be the primary playmaker for the Sixers. Now, Embiid has not entirely taken over the role. but his playmaking has improved a lot as he averages career-high 4.4 assists per game.

Shaquille O'Neal and Hakeem Olajuwon
Shaquille O’Neal and Hakeem Olajuwon

Jordan and Kobe were both guards at 6’6″. Embiid is a 7-foot center who can dominate the paint along with putting up dribble moves, hitting threes and mid ranges, euro steps, crossovers, and most of the moves in the book. Safe to say, Joel Embiid is destined for greatness with those skills. Twitter fans lauded him too (and the highlights maker) for stark similarities in plays of Embiid and Jordan and Kobe:

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