Joel Embiid screams into T.J. McConnell’s soul, celebrates accordingly

Lost in the fog of Joel Embiid being very good at basketball and also being very good at promoting his #NBAVote campaign is that he is very good at everything else in life. It gets a bit aggravating seeing people write about the same person doing different “interesting” things every day. Except when it doesn’t. I am not tired of Joel Embiid, and if you are then I’m tired of you.

Here. Have a picture of Joel Embiid grabbing T.J. McConnell by the throat and screaming directly into his face. If one’s soul could shatter, this is how it would happen to McConnell, if it hasn’t already.

Not a lot of good things happen when people grab you with both hands around the neck. That’s the posture of Homer while choking Bart. That’s also what happens in movies when someone’s dying and another person thinks screaming at various face holes will undo that. These are bad things. Joel, however, takes bad things and makes them good. Not the 76ers themselves, just yet. But he’s getting there.

Here’s another good thing:

Joel has a history of dancing. Even before the season started, he was impressing. He was, as the kids say, “on this beet.” Kids are vegetarians today. I don’t get it.

You know who really appreciated Joel’s dancing? SportsCenter. You know who really appreciated SportsCenter appreciating Joel’s dancing? Joel. Here’s a screencap to prove it. Note the caption. Only the greatest are allowed to refer to themselves in the third person.

With so much love and happiness going around, how could one not be pleased? Who could be curmudgeonly enough to not feel the fun seep through their pores and into their kidneys? Carmudgeon Anthony. That’s who.

To be fair, the game winning shot was shot over his head. But Matt Rutkowski isn’t fair, and you shouldn’t be either. Boo Anthony, and cheer Embiid, and check on McConnell. He might be dead.