NBA: Embiid:”I just wanna feel like an NBA player.”

Although he doesn’t have any health problems at the moment, Joel Embiid is still not allowed to play in back-to-backs with the Philadephia 76ers. The Center has now expressed its resentment about this.

Embiid said after the game against Boston on Friday, where he hung up 11 points and 14 rebounds in 28 minutes, that he is assuming he will not be playing against Toronto on Saturday. He was asked whether he was in agreement with it:”No, I am not. But we have a plan, and I think we must stick to it.”

The Sixers are very careful with Embiid, who missed the first two years of his career completely due to injury and only played 31 games last season. Actually, he was supposed to get a minute limit of less than 20, which he called “bullshit”. However, Embiid has never played back-to-back games before.

He hopes that this will change soon:”I just want to feel like an NBA player,”said Embiid,”I feel like I’m not a real player because I can’t play back-to-back games,” he was asked,”I think so. But I’ve never done this before in the NBA. I can’t really say it.”

As a rookie, Embiid had put on historic figures last season, if he was ready for action: The center scored 20.2 points, 7.8 rebounds and an average of 2.5 blocks.