Joel Embiid Signs $196 million Extension With 76ers

Joel Embiid Signs $196 million Extension With 76ers

Hot Damn! Joel Embiid Signs $196 million Extension With 76ers!

This is awesome for Joel Embiid. He and the 76ers previously signed a $148 million, five-year extension that kicked in with the 2018-19 season. Now, he is stacking the paper…

CelebnSports247.com reports that Philly has locked in another big-money deal, this time with an All-Star nicknamed “The Process” who wants to end his career as a Sixers lifer.

The 76ers kept their trust in Joel Embiid and signed the 7-footer to a multi-year contract that a person familiar with the situation said was a four-year, $196 million extension, taking him through the 2026-27 season.

Joel Embiid’s ew deal will start in 2023-24. Embiid and the Philadelphia 76ers signed a $148 million, five-year extension that kicked in with the 2018-19 season.

The proud 76ers star took to social media saying:

There’s no place like PHILADELPHIA!!! Excited to continue working towards bringing a title home and eventually retire here #PHILLY.

Philly’s owner Josh Harris with the contract that said:

Joel is the definition of elite — a role model in our community and a true MVP-caliber superstar on the court. Since he was drafted in 2014, his rare blend of skills, charisma and leadership has transformed this franchise. We couldn’t be more grateful and excited to continue watching him in a 76ers uniform.

Embiid, the No. 3 overall pick out of Kansas in the 2014 draft, shook off more injuries and averaged 28.5 points and 10.6 rebounds last season. He tore cartilage in his right knee during the playoffs but played through the injury and was unstoppable at times in the post. He scored 36 points in 28 minutes in a Game 3 first-round win over Washington. He followed that up with 39 points in Game 1 and 40 in Game 2 in the East semis. Embiid was 11 of 21 and scored 31 points in Philadelphia’s Game 7 home loss to the Hawks.

Embiid said after Game 7:

It just felt like this was going to be our year. If there’s one thing I want to say, I gave everything I had. It’s not easy, especially when something always happens at the wrong time. I was ready, this whole playoffs, to just come in and dominate and do what I had to do. The meniscus happened.

Embiid averaged 24.8 points and 11.3 rebounds over his first five seasons in the NBA. Embiid, a native of Cameroon, sat out his first two seasons with injuries and has never played more than 64 games in a season over his career. He missed games this year with a bone bruise on his left knee.

Embiid has solidified his future in Philly at the same time fellow All-Star guard Ben Simmons faces an uncertain one with the team after an ugly postseason. The Sixers expected to pair Embiid and Simmons as cornerstones who could keep the team as a contender in the East for a decade. Instead, Simmons became the scapegoat for the Sixers’ early elimination from the playoffs and his name has been dangled in trade rumors all summer.

Embiid, though, signed the kind of contract that locks him in as a Sixer through the prime of his career.

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