Do The Sixers Have Beef Already...

Is there trouble in paradise already? Is there accountability being held? Or is the fake news media just after LeBron to get their clicks in? What's going on everybody, Christian Pedersen back with another episode of Sixers Digest. The show that needs to give you guys an apology for the last couple of days has been running that fever and it peaked yesterday at 102 and the combination of a lack of sleep while trying to take care of a toddler and a fever and a copious amount of NyQuil and Theraflu. I left Trendon Warford in a thumbnail and an intro to the videos. So apologies for my lackluster coverage the last couple of days while being sick. Thank you for everyone sticking with me. But as I always say, I'm bringing you daily content no matter what. So I hope if anything, this proves to you guys that I'm here ride or die no matter how good or bad this thing all goes. And whether or not LeBron James and Joel Embiid are beefing already. And I wanna just, I wanna talk about this, vent about this, get some reactions from you guys about this because I think that maybe this is something where there is no clear like this is all true or this is all a lie, but could be maybe an example of some of what is going to be happening this season that could be a good plot line to take away some potential upside for the Sixers on this one. As always, before we get any further into the video, gotta say a quick thank you to Kalshi for sponsoring this video and remind everybody that we are the third favorite team to win the NBA championship. And if you would like to get in on that market, you are welcome to use the code DigestNBA when you sign up for Kalshi and they will hook you up with $55 when you trade your first $25 in options. Okay, the quote that was said during the game from none other than Mike Breen was that somebody told me before the game that they were out ready to practice and Joel Embiid walked out on the court a couple minutes late and LeBron let him hear it. Okay, let's go one step further to the rebuttal before I get to it opinion-wise. LeBron countered with, and I can hear my journalism school professors rolling in their, I don't wanna say rolling in their graves, but rolling their eyes saying like you're going to someone's Instagram for verifiable sources. But LeBron on his source or on his Instagram is the source saying Kap, he ain't been late, so stop the lies. Let me ask your initial, what do you guys make out of this? Do you think that this is a complete nothing burger? Is this a something burger? This is where I think that, I don't believe that LeBron has been ripping into anybody. I don't think that Embiid, is there a chance that Joel Embiid was 47 seconds late to a practice or that LeBron James was two hours early and said something out loud to the effect of, hey Joel, where you been? Or good to like just said a word and that somebody who is a auxiliary, auxiliary, extra tertiary person that was around them as media or as a ball boy or as something said to Mike Breen, something to try and get into Mike Breen's favor and get some quotes on the air. Yeah, I can totally believe that both of those things existed at the same time. Do I think that LeBron James ripped into Embiid publicly facing him in the way that an anonymous source could then go to Mike Breen and say something like that? Absolutely not. But do I think that there is a core thread here that LeBron James is an incredibly hard worker and somebody who is, he has said all along, I didn't come to Philly to lose in the second round. I didn't leave my family to lose in the second round. And so yeah, I do think that there is a chance that LeBron James is an incredibly hard working individual who did show up, who probably shows up early to every practice as was evidenced by, I drew this quote from a different article here, but saying that Vijay Edgecombe had told reporters last week that James was the first person into the locker room of the team's training facility, saying he was there before everybody as usual. He dapped me up, yeah, I go, yo, what's up? Like we know each other for a minute. I think that this speaks to exactly the point of just LeBron, even at his age, is going to be the hardest working person on this team. LeBron is the most competitive person on this team, probably is going to be the hardest, probably is going to be the most competitive. I shouldn't say any of this with definition given that I'm not actually in any of these rooms, but it makes me wonder if, I don't know the entirely right way to say this, but if some of this isn't okay to happen, like if Embiid was two minutes late, is it that bad to actually say that Embiid got, you know, ripped a new a-hole by one of the greatest players of all time? If VJ, if Maxi, is there somebody who is too big of a superstar to be held accountable to any degree on this team? Because I kind of don't think there is. Now if it was, if the quote came out that Dean Wade goes ballistic on Embiid for something, you could be like, okay, what are we doing here, homie? Like, understand your role in all this. And if it was Nick Nurse loses his cool on it, I could be like, you know, I get it, you're the coach, but that's a kind of a way to lose the locker room dynamic potentially a little bit. But if it's player on player and within the hierarchy of player on player accountability, one element of that equation is the literal goat and somebody who is the elder statesman of basketball success and ethics and ethos. You kind of got to defer to him as being like, yo, if he's here first, if he's working harder than any of us, if he's putting in all of this effort, you got to accept that at the same time, like what he says goes, and if he says work harder, if he says get here earlier, if he's here, if LeBron James is here to hold players a tad bit more accountable and has the cart launch to hold everybody a tad bit more accountable, I think that's good for the Sixers. And if that proves to weed out some of the chaff and have some of the players not be ready for the moment right away, hopefully in the short term, okay, a little turmoil, but that makes everybody actually get there earlier, work harder, be more accountable, be more ready for the moment to rise to the occasion, to be their best selves. So do I think that Mike Breen is blowing smoke and taking things way out of proportion and probably capping? Hell yeah, I do. He's a broadcaster. What else is he going to talk about? The weather? I mean, they got to fill the time with something and mediocre, lukewarm stories don't drive headlines and clicks. But do I think that this is hopefully an example of if this is true, that LeBron is not scared to hold anybody and everybody on this team accountable? Heck yeah, I'm absolutely here for that. So that's what I got for you today. Thank you, like I said, for sticking with me through the, brain's not still back to 100%. You get what I'm trying to say. 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