Joel Embiid suspended three games and deprived of pay for altercation with journalist

Joel Embiid suspended three games and deprived of pay for altercation with journalist

basketball – The 76ers pivot lost his temper against a reporter who signed a critical article in which he referred to his family

Absent from the courts since the start of the season, Joel Embiid will have to wait a little longer before making his return. The American-Cameroonian pivot of PhiladelphiaMVP in 2023, was suspended three games for shoving a journalist, announced the NBA mardi.

References to his deceased son and little brother

After the 76ers game on Saturday, Embiid took on a reporter from the locker room. Philadelphia Inquirer who had recently written an editorial critical of him. The latter criticized the pivot for his lack of professionalism and involvement, which can still pass, but he referred in his article to the player’s son and his deceased little brother. Which, we understand, went less well.

“The next time you talk about my dead brother and my son, you will see what I am going to do to you and… I should assume the consequences,” he said in particular. Joel Embiid to the journalist.

“While we understand that Joel may have been offended by the personal nature of the first version of (…) Read more on 20minutes

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