He’s an African Cameroonian who wanted to represent his European coloniser France and ended up representing the American country he moved to at 16. Make it make sense to me. Joel just wanted to win something. If I was Cameroonian I’d be pissed. He only wanted to go to France because they are one of the best teams outside of America, then he realised “oh wait I can skip straight to the top” Cameroon isn’t even a bad team. If he had any dog in him he could along with siakam have a great Olympics and fiba with Cameroon and make your home fans happy at the same time (now he’s just getting criticised by American media)

Let’s be real, Embiid made his decision to increase his chances to get a medal. Cause if he felt Paris had a chance to win gold he would’ve stayed and not left for the USAMNT.

Imbiid is a "Basketball Mercenary" LOLOLOL🤣🤣🤣

Embiid finessed a frech citizenship despite never going there. Great play Joel.

He's not French in the first place

The number of times I've heard him call himself and Siakam as "African brothers"... and then he pulls a move like this?

I think his target was the French citizenship so that he can easily go there to visit his family and friends.

It was no deception for us and the entire country doesn't care about a mercenary who holds 3 or 4 passeports and prefer the greener grass instead of his country. He could have played with Siakam, and others but have slapped Cameroonians in the face to favor his own interest . no drama in France, we really don't care, but I guess the Cameroon do .

He’s not from France. He’s from a former French colony.

Embiid chose the easiest path he thinks he can win gold

That medal will be worth less than Kevin Durant's championships.

But he’s not even from France in the first place, he’s from Africa lol 😅

🤣they can keep him! He should play for Cameroon anyway.🤣

This USA team is a once in a lifetime chance to be apart of the greatest team ever ensembled.. I would’ve played for them too

bro you're criminally underrated! earned my sub, keep it going!

He played for a country that gave him everything. Makes sense

Back in the days they want to compete against the best, now they want to play with the best

Oh thats why he get booed 😂😂😂

The only thing that bothers me is that, basketball wise, I would’ve liked to see Wemby, Gobert, and Embiid on the same team at the same time lol. Other than that, he ain’t really American or French. He got citizenship from both, but what he did to get French citizenship is grimy. They should revoke it.

Embiid is desperate for a win.

Good vid man

Bro your content desrves much more views and subs. Keep up a good job!

I want to see USA team play with France team in the final.🤣🤣

W vid keep going

Its the nba collecting payment for that MVP they gifted him. They knew joel gobert and wemby is gonna be hard for team lebron to overcome

Representing your African country instead of representing another country

Good job here ! Thank you for your serious work about that sad story. I'm glad he finally choose to play for the US : we, as French, don't need a mercenary like him, with no respect for his word, himself, the country, the french basketball federation, and all the people who have to wait for years to earn the french nationality. I feel he would have brought more problems than otherwise, and if I had to choose, I'd have preferred a good silver medal (even it will be difficult with so many good team this time) to a gold one which would have had a taste of cheating. I also prefer to admire our new jewel, Victor beautifully playing alongside Rudy like their first time against Germany, Rudy with his offensive limitations, but who is always here and play with his heart to make us proud of our team.

At this point its up to the French to show him he is not welcome

Cant believe he one upped KD in the sport of frontrunning

as a cameroonian as much as i would have felt proud to see him play for CMR i still think he took the right decision because our team level is very low and the country only like literally only obsesed with football(soccer) and will not have gotten any grace nor any accomplishment. but they fact he switches allegences like flip flop heck thats bad should have accepted france but cmon he knows too well usa are stacked already and he wont even shine under the radar heck even be spotted.

I congratulate him because he didn’t played for France thank you bro Tu a bien fais 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

Neither should be an option, he should just play for Cameroon and if they can't qualify that's their problem. It would be cool to see Serbia and Jokic upset team usa.

the problem is not that he choose to play for Usa, the problem is how was the process, he doesn't deserve any french passport, he lied.

From the sounds of it France didn’t want him.

He is from CAMEROON in Africa and doesn't want to play for their colonial masters, France. But rather for the imperialist called America. Shit Happens.

To be fair he should never be allowed to represent USA. He is a U.S citizen not an American. He should represent his country of birth or that of his parents or grandparents. He should represent Cameroon. Imagine what impact this could have on raising profile, resources and potentially highlighting future talent that would never get scouted without media interest. Embiid chose the U.S for glory, not for the honour of singing the national anthem of your country with hand on heart and flag. His children can represent the U S if they were born stateside or gheir mother is an American.

They can take him back from the way he’s playing 😹(w vid)

It does show a bit of a problem with the Olympics (and for that matter the World Cup of Football and some other competitions). The Olympics is supposed to have the best athletes in the world but you can be the top athlete in the world in your sport and still never get a chance to go to the Olympics if your country's team is not that strong and never qualifies for the Olympics. I can see why he doesn't want to play for France and can't really see a reason why he would play for France and I can see how he feels ties to the United States after living their so long but it seems overkill for not only players who grew up in the United States to play for the American team but also players who grew up somewhere else and then went to the United States half way through high school or when they started university. Virtually every Canadian player went to the United States half way through high school so just as much as Embiid could claim a connection to the United States and decide to play for the American team. Imagine if SGA and Murray also decided to play for the American team. The American team already has such a huge advantage given its huge population. It shouldn't also be getting players who grew up in another country and then moved to the United States to finish high school or to go to university once they had already shown they had great basketball talent. It's like a European hockey player who moved to Canada to play junior hockey deciding to play for Canada instead of for his home country. Canada's national hockey team doesn't need that help and doesn't deserve that help. In the same way the American national basketball team doesn't need Embiid's help and doesn't deserve Embiid's help. (though surprisingly Embiid has apparently not looked very good on the court so far) Maybe, just as the Olympics had a refugee team it should also have a teams of top athletes from countries that have no hope of making the Olympics in some team sports - in other words Embiid and Siakim could play on a team of players from a variety of countries that are weak in basketball.

They reject him. Player of France doesn’t want him. Until he became MVP

Bro should’ve play for Cameroon because he came to the states damn near when he was 18 him and Pascal Siakam was enough to make the Cameroon team good enough

He wants the medal in a ease way

I have lost respect for embiid..but then..he is just someone who plays great basketball and gets paid well..no one expected him to be more than that...

USA was so afraid to loss so they recruited embid for easier win in olympics. USA is home of the best basketball player are still afraid of getting lose.

I was very confused about this as well to the point where when I first heard this that I thought they meant he was playing for team France. He shouldn't be playing at all , it does feel like he is just trying to get an easy medal.

People need to leave the man alone, let him do whatever he wants

should play for Cameroon

i dont understand how he can play for France if hes never lived there? he just speaks the language but he was born and raised in Cameroon, and lived in America

To be fair also--the French team already has 2 starting caliber Centers.

He will play for Canada soon, then for Germany

It's a no brainer DOH!!!

Embiid is injury prone. The only thing he would be good for is to injure and hurt opposing players.

That’s not a problem His American

He chose DA BEST! 🤷🏿

I mean you guys really are shocked? Its embiid were talking about

Yall know very little about Cameroon. Cameroon is essentially a neo colonial french colony. Their currency is the African Franc controlled by france, they have a 91 yearold dictator who has been in power for nearly half a century supported by guess who, France. I wouldnt want to play for Cameroon either.

What’s up with his middle name „Hans“? Is there a German lineage somewhere?

Bro post be to on South sudan

What Embid did is he stub a devil in the bck. France will beat the USA. The guy wasted all France effort then turn them down. What a shame Joel.

France hated they way out of gold wemby Embiid & rudy starting 5 would have been crazyb

Imagine if Africa was one country😅😅😅 team would have been crazy😅😅

He wants to beat Giannis and Jokic in Europe

He got a bout of LeBronism and was motivated by chasing a gold medal

Why was he given a deadline to play by the France team? Anyway knowing both countries I think he made a better decision. France would have never really accepted him as one of them. He was just going to be used. I don’t even know why he wanted to play for France in the first place

Do you know how hard it is for African Teams to just be organized. Chances are they even asked for him to pay them to be considered for the Cameroonian National Team. I feel your video is half baked since it did not explore his reasons for not choosing Cameroon. On snubbing France i understand they wanted to give him undue pressure, i would have snubbed France also given the comments by French players. USA actively courted him whilst France just threw their passport to him but without the current Admin or players actively seeking him out

Who cares. Its his career and he chose to play with the best team on paper. The french got played and lost the game. Thats life

Saying Embiid is french is like saying 21 Savage is British. Embiids American let him play for america

He's chasing the win. Just like in the NBA. Not a real player. Just big.

He ain't french bro those coaches need to stop actin he like he broke they heart

Your Cameroonian….start there

Stop the hate just embrace and respect his decision WTF your just making a content out of it getting viewers. You have Hakeem Olajuwon and others was not even born in the U.S. but was able to play in USA.

Embiid looks cooked.

Embiid is so dramatic LOL

France needed Joel, they sucked in basketball this Olympics lol. They didn’t win any games except against Japan, even that win was questionable lol.

Everyone just needs to play where they are born. Simple.

The guy is useless anyway. Sympathy MVP.

could have been a legend for France with Wemby, but never on some over stacked USA team. I tell if this guy is floppin and foul baiting around the floor, which isn't that easy in FIBA and USA gets kicked out, xenophobe Media will blame him. Embiid ain't very smart...

Joel is a snake. No honour in sports...

Embiid should have stayed with the volleyball plan.

its funny how french are against naturalized player but getting an african athletes on their team 😂

Also why france wanted him they got 2 large players already haha

Batum: “I am against naturalized people”. Wow what a jerk. I know plenty of French Naturalized citizens. I wonder if this is how all “Pure Born” French people think.

Embiid is a worm, he chooses what gives him the best chances of winning. I hate that since he should show love to his home country first. Especially when you consider he became a US and French Citizen fairly newly.

Born in Africa, but "deceived" France? nimbaplease

That’s easy choice USA is best country in the world!!!

If he doesn't feel french he shouldn't play for france, there shouldn't be any animosity, it's his choice who he supports

but hes cameroonian

He can be the best big man in Team USA. He'd be number 2 if he played for France

Straight tether behavior smh 🤦🏾‍♂️

Man has no national pride. Chicken has a great history of playoff failures so, hey goes the easy way to get a medal. Real men: Giannis. Luke, Joker, Wemby.....

Embid should be ban from international basketball for this. Trying to get citizenship to represent the country is quite common in Olympic but using it as a lie is different story.

Kyrie Irving did a similar thing

He is most pity person in bb game.

in all sport France is still colonizing,so he might be pissed of that. in usa he is simply american.. so why not

He just wanted the french passport

“After discussions with the French Basketball Federation, my choice has now been made. I would like to take the steps to obtain French naturalization and thus be eligible for selection with the Blues. I therefore do not wish to play for any other national team. » The Philadelphia 76ers player obtained French nationality in July 2022 “It would be an immense honor for me to join this French team to participate in the next major international competitions, first and foremost the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.” "I measure the resonance of my request, what it represents, what it means...." in the letter for macron ( for france )

He is not born French or American so who cares!

Please i advise you not to go into to the comment section they don’t know the difference between country of origin/ birth and becoming a citizenship. It’s a bunch of kids 🤦🏾‍♂️

I see why he wanted to play for France but if the players don’t want him then he should play for a team that appreciate he’s mvp talent. Those ignorant French players will never sniff Olympic metal

How do I know he's French? He's as fragile as French fries... but French fries are an American thing.... I'm confused now

Now nobody in the Olympics wants him