PHILADELPHIA — Joel Embiid slammed the stanchion under the basket twice in quick succession.
Maybe that’s an odd place for me to start, a rare low point in a night that had so many highlights. But the 7’2’’ twice-redshirted rookie showed some frustration after he was whistled for an offensive foul, effectively sealing the game with five seconds to play.
I guess I could’ve started with the Dream Shake turnaround jumper from the free throw line, or the three-pointer, or the way he cut across the lane to swat Russell Westbrook’s floater out of thin air.
But the fact that Embiid pounded the basket with just five seconds left reveals much about the kind of night it was inside the Wells Fargo Center on Wednesday.