76ers stars frustrated over leaked details of team meeting

There is a growing sense of dissension in the 76ers locker room. 

In the aftermath of an ESPN report that divulged details of Tyrese Maxey calling out Joel Embiid for his tardiness, the latter blasted the person who leaked the story, calling them "a real piece of s---."

On Thursday, Paul George also lashed out at the media for revealing intimate details of a locker room meeting that he felt should not have been leaked. Speaking on "Podcast P," George described the meeting as "a healthy, positive conversation" painted to be negative by the media.

"It wasn't like a meeting that went in a direction of blame game or people confrontational to that extent," George said. "So it should have never gotten out, period. Whether you want to think it's for motivational purposes to the media or not, it wasn't that type of conversation for it to get leaked. I can see if there were two dudes challenging each other and loudly arguing back and forth and it got overheard. But it wasn't that type of energy. So I don't know why or how that got leaked."

To make matters, NBA insider Jake Fischer reported Thursday that Embiid plans to leave no stone unturned in finding the culprit.

"So when ESPN reported details on Tuesday morning, from inside the 76ers' team meeting following Monday night's blown lead in Miami, one league figure close to Philadelphia's All-Star center told me: 'Joel is going to be furious.' And that Embiid was going to try and find the Sixers' supposed snitch," Fischer wrote on The Stein Line.

Amid the off-court drama, the Sixers have slipped to the last place in the East with a 2-12 record, their worst start to a season in eight years. The Sixers may not be incentivized to tank this season since they owe their first-round pick (top-six protected) to the Thunder.