Joel Embiid On 76ers’ Big 3 Of Him, Paul George, Tyrese Maxey: ‘It Looks Amazing’

During an interview with NBA reporter Tim Bontemps of ESPN, Joel Embiid spoke about the Philadelphia 76ers‘ new “Big 3” of him, Paul George and Tyrese Maxey. 

George signed a four-year deal with the Sixers in free agency, while Maxey signed a new contract with Philadelphia.

“Yeah, I think as far as the fit, it looks amazing,” Embiid told ESPN. “It is great, especially when you got a big … I don’t like to call myself a big, but when you got a player that posts up and that isos quite a bit, you need to have willing shooters and guys that are not afraid to pull the trigger. PG, great shooter, 40%, 45 catch and shoot; Tyrese, we know great shooter, off the dribble, catch-and-shoot.

“On paper, and as far as the fit, it looks fantastic because you got both guys that can play off the ball, and they can play on ball and they’re great shooters and they can handle the ball, and then you also got me. So, yeah, it looks great.”

The Sixers lost to the New York Knicks in the first round of the 2024 playoffs in six games. The franchise hasn’t advanced past the second round of the postseason in the Embiid era. 

“It feels like you’re starting from scratch,” Embiid, one of the best players in the NBA, told ESPN. “And I know there’s going to be a lot of growing pains. But you just got to stick it together. The goal is always to win a championship, but it just doesn’t happen overnight. And hopefully, it doesn’t take us as much time as it should when you’re trying to bring up everybody on the same page and making sure everybody knows their role and what they got to do to make sure that we achieve that goal. But we’re going to do the best job possible.”

Embiid averaged 34.7 points last season, George averaged 22.6 points and Maxey averaged 25.9 points.