PHILADELPHIA — Most will remember the dream shakes and fadeaway makes, the fluid pick-and-pops and NBA Jam-like blocks.
But if you want an actual barometer for how special Joel Embiid is, and what his performance Wednesday night against the Thunder meant to the Philadelphia 76ers, their fans and the NBA as a whole, all you have to know is this:
He’s taken a hacky, Ted Talk-like corporate maxim and made it cool.
“Trust the process,” Embiid said from his locker following the Sixers’ 103-97 home loss to the Thunder, large smile stretching across his face and yellow ice bucket at his feet. “That’s my motto.”
Embiid spent the preseason repeating that phrase—the brainchild of former Sixers general manager Sam Hinkie, designer of the Sixers’ previous strategy to, well, not win games—whenever and wherever he could. There were pictures of him dunking posted to his Twitter account with the caption “Processing…” He stamped nearly all his tweets with a "Trust the Process" hashtag. The word “process& ...
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