After the Philadelphia 76ers beat the Chicago Bulls on the back of Joel Embiid’s first career 50-point game, Marc Zumoff asked Tobias Harris to give a “different description” of Embiid’s play, one “we haven’t heard before.”
Tobias initially says “dominant,” a word everyone already uses to describe Embiid, before switching to the word “determined,” which does give some good insight on Embiid’s mindset this season.
This got me thinking about the word I would use to describe the feeling of watching Joel Embiid play this season, and the best word I can come up with is “appreciation.