PHILADELPHIA — The centers at the center of the NBA’s fiercest ongoing debate shared an embrace Tuesday that indicated they don’t share even an ounce of the animosity that exists between their fans.
Even if a key difference between them is how they regard the fan vitriol: apathy vs. chip on shoulder.
After Joel Embiid dropped 41 points in a 126-121 Sixers win over the Nuggets, he revealed in a TNT interview what he told Nikola Jokic during that embrace: that Jokic is the best player in the league.
“We were just talking. He came, and we just hugged it out,” Embiid elaborated afterward.