Disgusting Behavior: 76ers fans turning on Joel Embiid after a team collapse in Chicago

Drew Smith
November 5, 2025
Sixers
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The Philadelphia 76ers managed to outdo themselves Tuesday night in Chicago. They built a 24-point lead, dominated for three quarters, and then completely imploded down the stretch.

The Bulls didn’t lead once until Nikola Vucevic hit a dagger three with just over three seconds left, sending the United Center into chaos and handing Philly a 113-111 loss that felt like a gut punch.

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The second half was brutal. Anyone with half a brain can look at the numbers and see that Joel Embiid only scored two points on 1-for-10 shooting from the floor and coughed up three turnovers.

It wasn’t pretty. There’s no sugarcoating that, but I’m not going to do the whole “Trash Joel Embiid” routine because of it. That’s lazy and here at The Liberty Line, we refuse to buy in to the narratives curated by the NBA Deep State and their bot armies online.

This team isn’t firing on all cylinders right now.

The Sixers are trying to figure things out on the fly when it comes to how they manage Joel Embiid’s minutes, how to keep him healthy, how to build chemistry when he’s in and out of the lineup, and how to find a rhythm around a superstar who clearly isn’t himself.

That’s not an easy puzzle to solve, especially when the schedule doesn’t let up.

Again, watching Joel Embiid late in the game was painful.

Joel Embiid kept trying to go one-on-one with Vucevic, settling for fadeaways instead of attacking inside. The same move. The same result. Over and over.

Here’s the thing though, that really doesn’t matter…

While the Sixers were falling apart and while Embiid kept missing shots.

I think it’s important to realize that there’s going to be nights, more often than not, where those shots do fall and the Sixers get an easy win. That’s because I know ball while the rest of you engagement farm on social media, but I digress.

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The offense fell apart around a bad Joel Embiid. It is what it is.

The Sixers led 109-102 when Embiid checked back in with 5:39 left. They did not score again after Tyrese Maxey hit two free throws with 4:26 remaining. That’s almost five minutes of lifeless basketball to close it out.

Fans wasted no time unloading on Embiid after the final buzzer. Social media lit up with criticism, jokes, and frustration, many calling him lazy, soft, or out of shape. The problem is, it’s not just about one player right now. The whole operation looks confused.

If you want to be mad at someone, aim higher.

This one’s on Nick Nurse. There’s no reason Embiid should still be on the floor in the closing minutes of a game where he was clearly gassed and not moving right. Nurse has to be smarter with his rotations and protect his MVP from himself.

This team is still learning who it is and how to function with all the new faces, lineup changes, and health restrictions. It’s going to take time. It’s not fun to watch right now, but it’s way too early for fans to turn on Embiid like he suddenly forgot how to play basketball.

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Drew Smith

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Anonymous says:

November 5, 2025 at 4:49 pm

I watched the whole 2nd half closely. They were competitive without Embiid on the floor. As soon as he came in the sixers became slow unresponsive defensively waiting for the center to protect the front of the rim and receive the ball down low. I didn’t take a score, but almost every time the center struggled to get from below the baseline on one end of the court to the other end of the court beyond the free throw line on the other end, almost every possession going either way. The center was not in sync with the flow of the play and became disconnected from the transition going back and forth from offense to defense and back. Let’s be honest. The center had 0,0,0,+1 on the turnover in the 4th quarter, at crunch time, with one person playing the majority of the key minutes down the stretch. They look like a train wreck. Where is the adult in the room? Ha ha. Nowhere. I’m a lifelong Sixer lover. I was the only white boy in northwest Wyoming that group up wanting to become ‘the Doc’. I am from here though. It’s time for the experiment to end. They hypothesis is false. Come on let’s just use the sniff test and common sense.

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