Joel Embiid Explains Decision to Play for Team USA over France at 2024 Paris Olympics | News, Scores, Highlights, Stats, and Rumors | Bleacher Report
Joel Embiid Explains Decision to Play for Team USA over France at 2024 Paris Olympics | News, Scores, Highlights, Stats, and Rumors | Bleacher Report
As Joel Embiid prepares to play in the Olympics for the first time in his career, the former NBA MVP has opened up about his decision to suit up for Team USA…
"Obviously, I got my home country, Cameroon, which I love, and the U.S., where I've been for 14 years now, and then France, where I have a lot of family," Embiid said. "I kind of felt rushed in that decision. I wanted to take as much time as possible, and it didn't help that France had put an ultimatum on when the decision had to be made."
Embiid said he wasn't aware there was a timeline, but he "saw it on Twitter" and was surprised because the U.S. was willing to give him as much time as necessary to make a decision.
Is it so hard for multimillionaires like him and Banchero to just admit they want the best chance to win something, no matter the country, the culture... ?
Losers with a medal are definitely not winners
Yeah that's lame, dude spent his entire childhood in Cameroon and just dropped his homeland like that, sad.
Didn't he petition the French President for citizenship with the promise to compete for them?
Desperate people are being denied such privilege, despite living in the country. Kind of a dick move.
Here's the letter from which you can read "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. I have sent a file to this effect to the Ministry of the Interior and Foreign Affairs."