PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Already an NBA MVP and an Olympic gold medalist, All-Star middle Joel Embiid now has till the tip of the last decade to attempt to win his first NBA championship with the Philadelphia 76ers.
With one other most contract secured, Embiid needs to chase that title in Philly — and stay a Sixer for the remainder of his profession.
“Philadelphia is dwelling,” Embiid wrote on Instagram.
A seven-time NBA All-Star, Embiid and the 76ers agreed to a $193 million extension with a participant choice for the 2028-29 season, an individual accustomed to the deal stated. The particular person spoke to The Related Press on situation of anonymity as a result of the phrases haven’t but been introduced.
The 30-year-old Embiid, who graduated from a Florida highschool and performed a season in school at Kansas, broke his personal information early Friday morning when he posted a photograph on Instagram of him signing a contract alongside staff proprietor Josh Harris.
“I wish to be right here the remainder of my profession. I like this group and all the things you’ve given me and my household,” Embiid wrote. “There’s much more work to do. You guys deserve a championship and I believe we’re simply getting began.”
Embiid, who dropped a franchise-record 70 factors final season towards San Antonio, signed off with the acquainted 76ers hashtag, “#trusttheprocess.”
Embiid — nonetheless within the second yr of a $196 million extension he signed forward of the 2021 season — turned the third cornerstone participant this offseason to signal an enormous contract with the 76ers. The staff hasn’t received an NBA title since 1983.
The 76ers enticed Paul George to go away the Los Angeles Clippers and signal a four-year, $212 million contract. The NBA’s Most Improved Participant final season, Tyrese Maxey, was rewarded with a five-year, $204 million extension. The 76ers dedicated greater than $400 million in wage to 2 gamers they consider place them as the highest contender to dethrone the NBA champion Boston Celtics.
George and Maxey each congratulated Embiid on the extension on Instagram.
Throw in Embiid’s deal and the Sixers are relying on a Massive Three that may contend for the lifetime of their contracts. Embiid, although, has a historical past of accidents and has but to result in the franchise out of the second spherical of the Jap Convention playoffs. Embiid has by no means performed greater than 68 video games in a season and averaged 34.7 factors in simply 39 video games final season.
Initially chosen by the 76ers with the No. 3 general choose within the 2014 NBA draft, Embiid was named NBA MVP within the 2022-23 season and he received a gold medal with Workforce USA at this yr’s Paris Olympics.
He has 5 All-NBA Workforce honors, seven consecutive All-Star choices from 2017-24, three All-Defensive Workforce nods, and twice has been the NBA scoring champion.
“Joel has cemented himself as one of many best Sixers of all time and is nicely on his option to being the most effective gamers to ever play the sport. We’re ecstatic that this extension retains him and his household in Philadelphia for years to return,” Harris stated. “Joel is a superb household man, chief, and particular person. He’s an elite two-way participant with a mixture of dimension, power, and athleticism that this league has hardly ever – if ever – seen. He’s integral to this franchise’s quest for one more NBA Championship, and we’re honored that he continues to decide on this group as his NBA dwelling.”
In 433 video games (all begins) with the franchise, Embiid has averaged 27.9 factors on 50.4% capturing, 11.2 rebounds, 3.6 assists and 1.7 blocked photographs throughout 31.9 minutes per contest. He ranks first in franchise historical past in scoring common (27.9 factors per sport), fifth in blocked photographs (720), tied for sixth in triple-doubles (seven), and seventh in whole factors scored (12,071). Embiid additionally ranks third on the franchise listing with eight 50-point video games.
“I had no thought after I was drafted as a 20-year-old child from Cameroon how fortunate I used to be to be in Philadelphia,” Embiid stated in a staff assertion. “By all of the ups and downs, this metropolis and the followers have been all the things, and I’m so grateful for a way they’ve embraced me.”
A youth soccer participant, Embiid didn’t choose up a basketball till he was a teen in Africa, when a buddy knowledgeable him that only a few 7-footers achieve soccer.
A couple of months later, Embiid was lured to a basketball camp within the capital of Yaounde run by NBA veteran Luc Mbah a Moute, considered one of simply two gamers from Cameroon to have performed within the NBA. Mbah a Moute persuaded Embiid’s mother and father to let him transfer 6,000 miles to Florida, and helped enroll him at Montverde Academy, the most effective highschool applications within the nation. He performed simply 28 video games in his lone season at Kansas earlier than leaving for the NBA.
Embiid missed his first two full seasons with accidents earlier than settling in as one of many prime huge males — and richest gamers — of his technology.
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