Joel Embiid may be the best basketball player I never set foot on the dance floor NBA. He's only 21, but his career is threatening the same injury that prematurely ended her career, Yao Ming.
Joel Embiid is one of the five most talented basketball players who came to the NBA in the last 25 years. That's my opinion. I may not be worth anything because Embiid may never play basketball now. The NBA has not yet played. He faces is that it will become one of those legends, which speaks during night meetings and theorized "what if".
- As I said, there is a chance that his career was over - says one source, quoted by the "Philadelphia Inquirer". - Some compare this to the situation of foot injury Kevin Durant. But it is much more serious. Injury Embiida like basketball murder.
Cameroonian, compared to Hakeem Olajuwon, it will go in the coming days the second surgery of the foot and leave the whole season 2015/16. After the first surgery left the whole season 2014/15.
95% of stories about koszykarzach from Africa contains such phrases as: "was wypatrzony", "started playing basketball very late", "it is a great athlete," and "little else can."
These terms also fit into the history of Embiida, outside the latter. To 17 years Embiid played football and volleyball. He did this in a family Yaounde, capital of Cameroon. The ball into the trash picked up for the first time in 2011. In the spring of 2014 years it was already the favorite to choose from No. 1 NBA draft pick. It's been less than three years from the moment when he first started to play, to pomeczowego interview in which the current coach of the Chicago Bulls - then coach of Iowa State University - Fred Hoiberg said, "That's the best player in the country. You ask why? Did you see how he played today? Because ".
- Grab everything like a sponge. Everything comes to him so easily. It has a natural feeling for this game, has a natural instinct. It also has skills that few gains even after working for several years - said about him, Bill Self, the coach who for one season 2013/14 led Embiida at the University of Kansas.
Perhaps it was the only and last season Embiida. 28 matches, 647 minutes and postpone for 40 minutes on average 19 points, 14 rebounds and 4.5 block. After this season Embiid was the favorite choice of No. 1 draft pick in 2014. Not Andrew Wiggins, hajpowany yet in 2013 on "Second LeBron James". Embiid played with Wiggins in the same team of Kansas, but from December 2013 mainly talked about measuring 213 cm Kameruńczyku.
In Cameroon Embiid played football - he was a helper. This is not a story of a boy wypatrzonego the middle of the steppe. His parents, Thomas and Christine have been married for 23 years and provided him a good childhood. For many surprise it was how Embiid quickly found himself in Western culture, but "JoJo" as a child had ... TV and the internet.
- Joel is a cheerful kid. Pulls it to the people - said his father.
Career "JoJo" began at age 17 when he was invited to a basketball camp in Yaounde. He led the camp Luc Richard Mbah a Moute, the Cameroonian winger, who plays in the NBA.
- He had a repertoire of such movements in the attack, which people learn to year - said today.
Then there was another camp in Johannesburg (South Africa), and then you Mbah a Moute Thomas Embiida convinced that this sent his son to the US. Yes Embiid landed in the well-known, the Florida school in Montverde. Then there was the season in Kansas, "Dream Shake" ...
But earlier was the first match Embiida when he stopped with the ball in the vicinity of the center line and surrounded by an aggressive half-zone and four players picked the ball up and shouted to coach, 'What should I do? What should I do? '. The coach yelled back, "Enter!".
Two years later Embiid Olajuwon did what he did after a good few years of NBA career
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