What if: Milwaukee or cleveland drafted Joel embiid?

[falcolombardi]

back in 2014 embiid injury made bucks and cavs not Choose him going for jabari Parker and wiggins instead

but what if they took the risk on him?

cleveland: this is tricky because in real life cleveland traded that pick in a win now mode for Kevin love, if they had got embiid instead i am unsure minnesota or any other team willing to trade an all star talent would take a injured player (if they did a eventual Towns/Embiid/lavine trio would be disgusting)

cleveland may be forced to keep him and make different moves to surround lebron and kyrie which may actually work out better for them (love struggled against the warriors matchup) or not, but either way they get embiid alongside lebron in 2017 and forward. the what if is insane

Milwaukee is more straightforward, they essentially get giannis/embiid star duo + middleton starting in 2017 in a insane potential Project

and of course minnesota taking embiid in a trade for love and then eventually making a towns/embiid duo + lavine is a crazy possibility

how do you think those scenarios would go assuming most other thinghs stayed the same ?

[Dr Positivity]

Embiid still ends up on the TWolves, but the Cavs may have to include Dion in the package as well

[Dutchball97]

Wherever he ended up instead, 76ers fans suddenly wouldn't rate him as high anymore.

[PicPock]

If i remember correctly, Milwaukee had 4 2RP back in 2014. What if they were picking Embiid and because he was hurt, they also had chosen number 40 as a backup?

[XTC]

Embiid & Giannis would be a scary front court. Their games compliment each other so well.

If he heads fo Cleveland, they still package him for Love. Embiid & Towns would be another nasty pairing.