Stanley Johnson: Joel Embiid Made Interview With Sixers 'Easy'
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) --- It's not often, if ever, a player accompanies his team's front-office at the NBA Draft Combine. Then again, it's not often the Sixers do things the conventional way.
So when Sixers center Joel Embiid asked to attend the combine in Chicago, no one said no.
"I mean, really, this was his initiative," Brown said via CSNPhilly.com. "He asked about it and we extended the invitation and he was all in. I think that for him to come here to Chicago and share in the selection and opinions of people that we may draft is an impressive quality that he has shown us. We get a workout in the morning. We a get lift in the morning. We're going to a see a playoff game [Thursday night], the Cavaliers-Bulls game, let him take all that in. But I think to just digest this whole purpose in Chicago, something that he didn't have an experience to look at last year, as well as help us grow the program that we're trying to build, is a good thing."
Embiid, and his quirky personality, is loosening up interviewees of the Sixers.
"That made it easy on me," said projected lottery pick Stanley Johnson said of seeing Embiid in the interview room. "It was fun because I got to have some dialogue with him. Jo-Jo is always playing around. You know that."
"I saw [Embiid] in the hotel lobby prior to the interview," Texas forward Myles Turner. "Seeing him in there was kind of funny. He's a cool dude. He was my host when I made my visit to Kansas. Me and him are pretty cool."
"Joel Embiid was in there," UNLV forward Christian Wood said of his Sixers' interview. "That was very interesting. They asked me a lot of questions. They told me to do certain things. They asked me to write plays up on the board. It was a very interesting interview."