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Embiid In Basketball Players

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This week, the Sixers and their fans finally got a chance to see center Joel Embiid play basketball for the first time in over two years. In the Sixers' first three preseason games, Embiid has been on a 12-minute restriction but has shown flashes of potential and athleticism that many analysts predicted when he first came out of Kansas. However, Sixers head coach Brett Brown has been impressed with Embiid over these last few years and believes he could be special, comparing him to a future Hall of Famer. “You see him and he just has ‘it,’" Brown said via Jessica Camerato of CSN Philly. "Years ago, you saw it with [Tim] Duncan. I see it with him in regards to a real target offensively and a real sort of centerpiece defensively.” In Embiid's

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