“They call him soft while he has the Mamba Mentality!” Joel Embiid shows his true mindset after suffering a torn thumb, fractured orbital and concussion

Joel Embiid is as tough as they come, displaying grit and determination that carried his team to the next round of the playoffs this year, putting them against the Miami Heat in the conference semi-finals. Embiid suffered various injuries in the post-season to which he added another injury of a fractured orbital, caused by an elbow from the Raptors’ Pascal Siakam.

What was seen as a terrible display of sportsmanship, the Raptors fans cheered on Siakam as he elbowed Joel, and even the commentators took part in the slander of player who groaned in pain. While all the people cheered for the elbow, Embiid already knew it had broken his bone.

Joel Embiid was elbowed by Pascal Siakam with under 4 minutes remaining in the 4^th quarter, which is exactly when “The Process” felt the pain and held his face as he was hurt. While he didn’t really say anything to anyone at that time, in the post-match interview, he mentioned that he might have suffered a broken bone from the brutal elbow, while he also ignored it and said the elbow was justified as they were in the playoffs.

His belittling of the injury highlights the mentality and strength of the player to the people who call him soft and also to the fans who mocked him for getting elbowed, a situation where he was the victim and wasn’t at fault.

While NBA Twitter is occupied in calling the Raptors fans the worst fanbase in the history of the sport, let us take a look at how Joel Embiid exactly knew what had happened to him, despite of which he continued to play for his team and took them to the much-needed win.

Joel Embiid knew exactly what injury he suffered after being brutally elbowed by Pascal Siakam

Joel Embiid was the victim of a brutal elbow coming from the Toronto Raptors’ star player Pascal Siakam, who was cheered on by the crowd for hitting his rival, without keeping into consideration that it was wrong and would’ve probably injured the player, which is exactly what happened, in a terrible way. Embiid suffered a fractured orbital from the brutal elbow, and he seemed to have realized it right at the moment.

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After the game against the Raptors was won by the 76ers with a comfortable 25-point margin, Joel Embiid was in a post-match interview right besides court where he specifically mentioned, “I think he broke my face. I’m serious I think he might have broke my face. But it’s all good, it’s the playoffs.” And just laughed it off, belittling the brutal injury that he suffered.

This just highlighted the strong mentality the player carries, which proves his haters who call him “soft”, wrong.

Embiid has now suffered a torn thumb, a concussion and a fractured orbital in the post-season so far, which is one of the worst things that could happen to a player. Let us now take a look at how twitter reacted to Embiid’s assessment of his injury right after the game.

Twitter Reacts to Joel Embiid’s immediate understanding of his injury post-game

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