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Embiid will play for Team US in the Olympics

Discussion in 'NBA Dish' started by daywalker02, Oct 5, 2023.

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    They don't say you won a title after you win a gold medal, ask Harden.
     
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    Yeah, the terminology and status of an Olympic Champion is different, Zeus and the Gods are its symbols.

    Probably just an Ancient Greek Champion.

    The Americans do not know about it. It is popular as ever because sponsors do value that.
     
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    USA sending out the heavy artillery for 2024 after the Z team lost this year
     
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    Finally, sending in the A team again.

     
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    Once you send the actual A team, it goes back to dominance.

    You send B/C team to get their feet wet or whatever and you get the results you just got this past summer. A bunch of good players but the gap between the elite A team is that much greater
     
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    What a ****in fraud!!!!

    Hakeem would never.

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    If you can't win the NBA World Championship, you can at least try to win the regional Greek championship at Olympia.
     
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    Yes, Percy Jackson knows the Gods are with you on Mount Olymp.
     
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    Team USA needs a big for international ball. Embid is a big get.
     
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    Embiid had previously expressed his interest in playing for the French national team, so much so that it was thought the 76ers player could already be available to coach Vincent Collet for EuroBasket 2022. However, the Cameroon native, partly due to some physical troubles, chose to sit out last offseason, postponing any possible talk until the following summer. It was precisely his interest in playing for the French national team that had prompted the top leadership of the federation to get him a passport, as confirmed by the president of the French federation himself, Jean-Pierre Siutat, at a recent press conference. “We met Joel Embiid together with Boris Diaw in March of 2022,” the president of the French basketball federation clarified. “But we didn’t ask for that meeting. He had shown interest in playing for France, and we helped him get French citizenship upon his request. But we were never demanding of him, I’m just sorry that we have spent so much time and energy on a file that should never have been opened,” Siutat added.
    Source: Orazio Cauchi @ BasketNews
     

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