A biography for Joel Embiidhasn’t been written yet.
“I think it would've been a little easier if I grew up in America; they've got better conditions for basketball players. At the same time, many people have said to me that having to start playing so late helped me not pick up bad habits.”
“I want to be that type of guy - I want to be Kobe Bryant. I want to be Tim Duncan. I want to be Dirk Nowitzki - stay with one team my whole career.”
“In a season, you're going to go through slumps.”
“Chinese fans are just passionate about the game. The love they have is just insane.”
“If I feel great and my body feels great and my knee is fine, I should play 30 minutes or more. I definitely have my opinion on that.”
“I love when people tell me that I was gonna be a bust. I enjoy when people tell me, 'You suck. You can't dribble. You can't shoot,' because it's like, gotta go to the gym.”
“I'm competitive, and I think everybody knows that if you're talking trash, you're gonna get a reaction out of me.”
“When I play '2K,' I'll play in GM mode. And I choose different teams. But I always trade for myself because I'm unstoppable. Literally there's no way to stop me in '2K.'”
“The Process is never going to end.”
“It's basketball; it's always good to blow a team out.”
“When I was visiting schools, I wanted to go and see what they got. After my visit, I knew that Kansas was good.”
“My very first scrimmage at Kansas, I got dunked on so hard by Tarik Black that I almost quit. Tarik dunked on me so hard that I was looking at plane tickets home. This guy was a senior. He was a grown man. I didn't know what was going on. He got his own rebound and dunked over me so hard that everything went in slow motion.”
“Philly will be the place for me for my whole career.”
“Trust 'The Process.'”
“I see a lot of athletes that don't really use social media, or they're saying the same stuff. I kind of wanted to change the game.”
“I always think about myself as, like, a regular person. I want to be able to enjoy everything.”
“Basketball has given me everything, but it has to be bigger than basketball. That was the first thing that I said to Under Armour, and they were behind it 100 percent. This isn't about a shoe deal.”
“I'm very good at drawing fouls.”
“People have labeled the Process as whatever, tanking. I don't see it like that.”
“If I'm not making plays, I can't get the crowd going. When I'm making plays, that's where I can feel a vibe and can get into it with the crowd.”