Joel Embiid

Joel Embiid has an incredible basketball resume from his time in the NBA already, and he could be adding to it with international play next.

Embiid and Gobert would be quite the formidable center rotation, too. According to the French news outlet RMC Sports, Embiid has initiated administrative procedures to obtain French nationality to be able to play for the French national team. Joel Embiid has an incredible basketball resume from his time in the NBA already, and he could be adding to it with international play next.

The Sixers center has never played in the Olympics. That could change when Paris hosts the Summer Games in 2024.

(Another Cameroonian in the NBA whom Embiid knows well, Toronto’s Pascal Siakam, has said he’d like to play for the country but also hasn’t done so yet.) The team does have multiple NBA stars in Rudy Gobert, Evan Fournier, and Nicolas Batum. It’s not the first time that Embiid, a Cameroon native who has family in France, has considered playing for France. He has never played for Cameroon, though the country has tried to get him to do so.

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Now they’re prepared to weather the storm with Joel Embiid on the sidelines. While Daryl Morey acquired Harden to play alongside the center rather than replacing him, this is an added benefit of having multiple stars on the roster. During the first round of the 2022 NBA Playoffs, Joel Embiid tore a ligament in his thumb. Having him on the sidelines simply makes them a worse team on both ends of the floor. Shams Charania of The Athletic would later tweet that the center had suffered a mild concussion and a fractured right orbital. While the cliche might claim that defense wins championships, the modern NBA is all about star power.

The MVP candidate is currently rehabbing from a facial injury he sustained in the first round of the NBA playoffs against the Raptors.

Headlined by Rudy Gobert, Nicolas Batum and Evan Fournier, France defeated USA during the group stage. The two teams met again in the gold medal game, and France narrowly lost 87–82. Embiid, a Cameroon native who has family in France, is considering changing his nationality in order to play for the French national team in the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, per a report from French media outlet RMC Sport. The 28-year-old has never appeared in international competition.

With a dominant win against the Toronto Raptors last Thursday, the Philadelphia 76ers advanced to the second round of the playoffs, where they'll face the ...

As it turns out, that was the case. As the Sixers dominated the Raptors in Game 6, Philly's head coach Doc Rivers wanted to ensure his team kept their lead alive. A torn ligament wasn't going to keep Embiid off the court.

Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid started the process to represent France in international basketball, two years before Paris hosts the Olympics.

Anthony Davis, who skipped the Tokyo Olympics, is the lone U.S. center to make an All-NBA team in the previous four seasons. In Tokyo, a French team led by another center, Rudy Gobert, handed the U.S. its first Olympic defeat since 2004. The Americans then beat the French in the gold-medal game 87-82.