Despite constant concerns about a lack of front court size in recent years, the Boston Celtics have been one of the better teams when it comes to slowing one of the game’s most dominant interior forces, Joel Embiid.
Embiid had previously averaged 23.3 points per game on 42.8 percent shooting in 11 career outings against the Celtics. Across three games during the 2019-20 season, those numbers dipped further to 21.3 points per game on 39.1 percent shooting. He shot just 45.9 percent in Boston’s four-game sweep of Philly in the 2020 playoffs while coughing up 3.