Karl-Anthony Towns has made back to back conference finals appearances in two different conferences.

[og15]

Embiid: Olympic Gold

Ah, the Christian Laettner of his Olympics.

Let's be honest. Any RealGM poster could have gotten a gold medal on that team.

Yes, but not by playing any actual minutes

[Black Jack]

Everyone in this thread is going to look silly next season when Embiid plays 82 games, wins MVP and Finals MVP.

Biid up!

You forgot to mention, on the Warriors.

[Calinks]

Good, I always liked him. But the franchise player in Minny was Edwards and in NY is Brunson.

I honestly feel like Embiid needs to be the number 2 as well. That's not shade against him, I think I'm today's game you are just FAR better off having a guard or wing be your number 1 option. I honestly think that's why Embiid hasn't made a conference finals, he needs to be the 2nd guy. It's more a statement about how the game is officiated than about he skill of these bigs.

The NBA rewards smaller players. It's a guards game and they can impact the game more. Prime example is how teams get away with putting small guys on bigs to stop them. In the 90's you could run that small guys ass over and kill them with physicality. Today they protect the small so much that you have to use pure skill to score over them if you are bigger because using your size to murder them is a foul. Smalls get a lot more leeway to be physical.