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Joel Embiid sees you

By Dotun Akintoye · ESPN · July 2025

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"IT HAS TAKEN months to get here. Months of waiting, for Joel Embiid to play, for him not to play, for him to decide what, if anything, he wants to say about a season that once seemed so full of promise."

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