{"id":22153,"date":"2023-03-25T16:05:33","date_gmt":"2023-03-25T16:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/25\/joel-embiid-responds-to-nba-stars-mvp-diss-with-monster-game\/"},"modified":"2023-03-25T16:05:33","modified_gmt":"2023-03-25T16:05:33","slug":"joel-embiid-responds-to-nba-stars-mvp-diss-with-monster-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/25\/joel-embiid-responds-to-nba-stars-mvp-diss-with-monster-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Joel Embiid responds to NBA star\u2019s MVP diss with monster game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Joel Embiid must&#8217;ve watched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/title\/80203144\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cThe Last Dance,\u201d<\/a> because he just quoted Michael Jordan.<\/p>\n<p>The Philadelphia 76ers big man dropped 46 points, eight assists and nine rebounds in a 120-112 loss to the Warriors Friday night. Golden State&#8217;s Draymond Green revealed what the MVP favorite said to him postgame.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[Embiid] said, &#8216;You know why I played like that tonight? You said [Nikola Jokic] was the hardest person to guard in the league. So I took that personal,&#8221; Green recalled.<\/p>\n<p>The former Defensive Player of the Year retracted his previous take, now claiming &#8220;Joel is the hardest guy to guard in the league.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n\t\t\t(function(d, s, id) {\n\t\t\t\tvar js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n\t\t\t\tif (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n\t\t\t\tjs = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n\t\t\t\tjs.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.5&appId=125075807517358\";\n\t\t\t\tfjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n\t\t\t}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n\t\t<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/articles\/joel_embiid_responds_to_nba_stars_mvp_diss_with_monster_game\/s1_13132_38621522\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joel Embiid must&#8217;ve watched \u201cThe Last Dance,\u201d because he just quoted Michael Jordan. The Philadelphia 76ers big man dropped 46 points, eight assists and nine rebounds in a 120-112 loss to the Warriors Friday night. Golden State&#8217;s Draymond Green revealed what the MVP favorite said to him postgame. &#8220;[Embiid] said, &#8216;You know why I played [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22153","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}