Last weekend, my father called me before the Patriots game. For 43 years and counting, he’s been paying for Celtics season tickets. He’s seen every basketball player who mattered, in person, since 1974. That stretches from the Kareem-Cowens-Walton-Havlicek era through this budding (and genuinely thrilling) Davis-Giannis-Porzingis-Kyrie-Embiid era. If you ever heard my father appear on my podcast, you know he’s not exactly a hot-take/hyperbole guy. Anyway, we talked about the Pats, then Dad mentioned attending the Sixers-Celtics game on Friday, January 6.
“Have you seen Embiid in person yet?” he said.
“No.”
“Oh my God. He’s unbelievable. He’s huge. Really huge. He moves like Olajuwon. But he’s huge. And he shoots 3s. We couldn’t stop him. He almost won the game. He’s huge. He’s so huge. You gotta see him, he’s huge. He’s amazing. He’s so huge …”
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