In 2011, Joel Embiid had played basketball for just three months when he got an offer to play high school ball in Florida; three years later, the 76ers took him 3rd overall in the NBA draft

Long before he became one of the NBA’s most recognizable centers, Joel Embiid was a teenager in Cameroon who had barely touched a basketball. At 16, Embiid moved to Florida after Luc Mbah a Moute spotted his potential at a basketball camp in Cameroon.

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