Chris Mannix slams 76ers’ Daryl Morey for Joel Embiid ‘pandering’

Chris Mannix eviscerated Daryl Morey for “pandering” about Joel Embiid not being an All-Star starter.

Mannix, a reporter for Sports activities Illustrated and TV analyst for NBC Sports activities Boston, was showing on the latter and fired off a vicious rant directed on the 76ers president of basketball operations. Final week, Morey blamed the “shameless” Boston media for blocking Embiid’s accolades.

“Initially it’s pandering, clearly,” Mannix started. “He’s on an area radio station, doing his factor … He’s additionally mistaken. The media voted Joel Embiid No. 3. Which means he was voted a starter, by the media. The gamers voted him No. 3. The followers voted him No. 4. So, possibly Daryl, you must go to your advertising and marketing division and say, ‘How is it that Philadelphia, inhabitants 1.5 million, was outvoted by Milwaukee, inhabitants 500,000?’

“He’s speaking, most likely, about somebody like me, who by the best way voted Joel Embiid a starter over Giannis Antetokounmpo, or he’s speaking about Invoice Simmons, or Ryen Russillo.”