Beijing time on May 7, 76ers ushered in the third game of the semifinals with the Heat, the first two games were away to Miami, 76 people in the absence of Embiid, both swallowed double-digit losses, and today's key game, 76ers inner core Embiid also chose to make a quick comeback, specially wearing a black mask Embiid, although the feel is not ideal, 12 shots only hit 5 goals, but the influence on the court, is indeed the key to the 76ers can usher in revenge with 99-79.
Embiid post-match po text, eliciting Butler's "friendly" response
Due to the elbow hit by Cameroonian compatriot Siakam in the last game of the first round of the playoffs with the Raptors, which also made Embiid miss the first two matches with the 76ers semifinals, the result was that the 76ers who did not think less embiid had no resistance on the road, and the penalty area was directly destroyed by Adebayo, but today's game returned in time, and Embiid let Adebayo "show its original form". Only 9 points and 3 rebounds were scored in the game. After the game, Embiid also updated his social media, accompanied by a photo of himself wearing a black mask, and borrowed a line from the movie "Batman": "No one cares who I am before I put on the mask." As a result, this also attracted the attention of the Heat's core Jimmy Butler, who commented under the message posted by Embiid: "Go xxx's mask." ”
Butler Embiid had a brief collaboration, spitting out fragrance more like a "friendly interaction"
And Butler's spit is not disrespectful to Embiid, but a friendly interaction, the two have worked together in the 18-19 season, when Butler just transferred from the Timberwolves to the 76ers, want to compete with Embiid for the championship, and the cooperation between the two is indeed a lot of sparks, during the regular season, they helped the 76ers to achieve 52 wins and 30 losses, the third best in the East, and easily eliminated the Nets in the first round 4-1, In the semifinals against the Raptors led by Leonard, the two sides fought to grab seven, but unfortunately, with Leonard's difficult mid-range kill, the 76ers failed to enter the East Final stage, which also made the two short and cooperative relationships end, but under the court, the two still maintained a good personal relationship.
Embiid made it clear that the team's release of Butler was a bad decision
In the summer of 19, Butler, who had just expired his contract at the time, chose to reject the maximum salary extension given by the 76ers, joined the Heat with a maximum salary of 142 million in 4 years, took the mountain in Miami on the South Coast, became the boss of the team, Embiid was also very dissatisfied, in a previous podcast hosted by Redick, Embiid made it clear that the team let Butler leave is a wrong decision, and the "initiator" who caused Butler to leave the team is the former young lord Ben Simmons, who just left this season. Embiid said on the podcast: "We signed Horford, gave up Butler, I still think it was a mistake, but we did that to make sure the ball was in Simmons' hands. ”
Since Simmons and Butler are the core points that need to hold the ball, but the team chose to give up Butler in order to cultivate a younger and seemingly larger Simmons, which also led to the team suffering a lot of losses on Simmons in the past two seasons, and looking back at Butler, now it seems to have become the league's top forward player, if the team left him and gave up Simmons, would the outcome be different (breakthrough in the East Final)?