One of the sad things about the NBA offseason is that we don't get quite as much Joel Embiid in our lives on a regular basis.
Sure, he'll pop up at a local basketball court every now and then or maybe at a charity soccer event but we don't get to see him on our television every third day or so. That's a bummer for trusters of the process.
Thankfully, Vulture's Nate Jones caught up with Jojo the other day to ask him about some of the more eventful moments of the offseason thus far, such as Bryan Colangelo's burner accounts and his playground antics.
Embiid's answers rarely disappoint.
Jones: One of the things you're famous for doing in the off-season is dunking on five-foot-tall white guys. Are you going to be doing more of that this summer?
Embiid: I don't know. That's not something I wake up in the morning like, I'm gonna go to the court and dunk on people. It's just usually I go do my regular stuff, play tennis, and then some random fans happen to be talking shit, so then I gotta teach them a lesson. And that's what I do.
I love it so much. Jo just has to teach fools a lesson. So that's what he does.
When asked about Colangelo's burner accounts, he calls Eric Jr., "my boy" and says he enjoyed the collar tweets: "The collar tweets were actually really fun. I enjoyed that one. Those were funny."
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There's some other funny stuff mixed in, so go check out the whole Q&A, and be happy that these words actually came out of Joel Embiid's mouth:
I've always wanted to be an astronaut.
Are you listening, Elon Musk? Make it happen. But not until he retires in 17 years. Maybe he can head up Donald Trump's Space Force at that point. Nobody would mess with Joel Embiid in space.
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