GQ Profiles Joel Embiid

This morning, GQ published its first-ever digital cover online, adorned by none other than our very own Joel Embiid. Interspersed with a decadent retelling of author Clay Skipper’s afternoon with Embiid are stylized clips of the star dressed to the nines, dribbling a basketball, not smiling, etc. The profile is long and expansive and very well done. Here’s some of what you’ll find if you give it a read:

It has all the trappings of a standard GQ or Esquire celebrity profile, which is to say that it doesn’t take long until the author described what the subject was eating. In this case, it’s chicken. Like, an obscene amount of chicken. And cajun pasta. And Brazilian cookies that Jo describes as…