Joel Embiid, 76ers Bench Were Taunting Wizards Fan After Ot Win

The 76ers hit nan Wizards, 139-134, successful overtime connected Tuesday night. Tyrese Maxey had 39 points and 10 rebounds while rookie V.J. Edgecomb had a comparatively quiet 14 points, six rebounds and 4 assists.

Even much importantly for Philadelphia, they sewage 25 points, 7 rebounds and 5 assists retired of Joel Embiid successful conscionable 23 minutes. Embiid struggled successful nan season-opener and sat retired nan 76ers crippled connected Monday nighttime truthful immoderate superior signs of life from nan injury-prone halfway is ever bully to see.

With nan Sixers moving to 4-0 connected nan season, spirits were understandably precocious connected nan chair arsenic nan timepiece ticked down successful overtime. That's erstwhile nan bench, led by Embiid who had checked retired of nan crippled pinch 7:18 remaining successful regulation, turned their attraction to nan Washington fans. Particularly 1 successful a Jordan Poole jersey according to 1 personification who posted video. Another perspective of nan taunting was posted connected X by Philadelphia media characteristic Spike Eskin.

Embiid has ne'er been acrophobic to operation it up pinch fans. In nan past he's told fans successful France to "suck it" and had things to opportunity to Nets fans and been quiet encouraged to Nuggets and Raptors fans who were booing him. Breaking retired his signature D-Generation X ceremony to taunt a instrumentality of nan Wizards is conscionable different bully motion that Embiid is genuinely rounding backmost into form.

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