Stephen A. on 76ers' Game 7 loss: James Harden should SHAVE his beard! | SportsCenter

On SportsCenter, the NBA Countdown crew of Stephen A. Smith, Mike Greenberg and Jalen Rose react to the Philadelphia 76ers' Game 7 loss to the Boston Celtics.

[Syraks]

Embiid, Harden, and Doc on the same team. Did you expect them NOT to choke and blow a series lead??? 😂😂😂

[fahblizza]

They totally let Embiid off the hook and it's disgraceful. Last time I checked he was the "MVP" and proclaimed the "best player" in the series. 15 pts in a Game 7 is a no for me.

[deelak]

You cannot let Joel Embiid off the hook again for his constant playoff dropping. This is sickening ESPN. Ya'll coddle this baby.

[robshelden]

Stephen A didn’t trash Embid cause the entire staff at ESPN promoted Embid as their guy for the MVP and they don’t want to eat their words right now. Embid, the supposed MVP, was a no show in the biggest game of his career. Period. 🤡

[ezrasmith]

Why does Harden get blamed more than Embid. Dude won mvp THIS SEASON & harden played better in this series. Without Hardens two 40+ pt games they're not even in a game 7 and yeah he played bad but Embid couldn't manage 2 good games in the 7 he played? I'd say 65% on Embid and you can split the remainder between harden, tobias, & doc

[allenross]

imagine blaming a 34 year old past his prime superstar, and not the current nba mvp of the league. ben simmons was right, this dude embiid is protected

[kingfreak]

Kind of baffling to put so much criticism on Harden who is obviously the 1B to Embiid. Harden was terrible as well but, Embiids’ play was egregious, 5-18 on a mere 15 points. Embiid deserves most of the blame for not willing his team to even be competitive as well as Doc for not adjusting the offense at all.

[cestrada]

Why is harden getting more hate than Embid. Yeah harden didnt play good today but if it were not for him 76ers would not have went 7 games. Meanwhile embid is suppose to be the most valuable player and dropped 15 points on 5-18 shooting in a win or go home game.

[Ben-yrul]

Still protecting Embiid even though he basically threw the whole team under the bus after his abysmal performance, LOL. I'd leave Philly if I were Harden.

[michaelturner]

And the MVP was simply brilliant. Give him another MVP award so he won't cry! hahaha

[damianclark]

MVP! MVP! MVP! That's what you get when you vote for a player to fit a narrative 😂

[sdadsada]

ESPN pushed the narrative for Jojo to win the MVP over Jok and right now they dont have the courage to blame him for another choke. Once again it's somebody else fault🤦‍♂️. Joker > Embiid

[BraveArrow]

if it wasn’t for harden sixers would’ve been swept 🤷🏾‍♂️

[argc]

of course he's not gonna say anything about his wonder boy Embiid and put all the blame on James Harden

[ynwcuadra]

The biggest problem is that Embiid is not that player, not the number 1 option in these type of situations. He can be the second guy, but not the number one. And you guys might not believe me, but Ive been saying this for two years. And not to mention that same body language that not only destroyed himself, but also his team mates and fans. You just can't build around Embiid. The Philly need that number one player. I said this a lot of times and got hated and even got a lot of enemies.

[remy]

Two MVP winners do a no show in a game 7!

[tutuy-mmbe]

Lol at Stephen A. yes Harden played really awful shooting 3/11 but why I didn't hear no Embiid who shot as bad with 5/18. That your MVP lmao

[Phantom-iytt]

Harden literally did half the group project and Embiid forgot there was even a project 💀

[allenmasuda]

Why isn’t Embiid on any of these thumbnails? Still protecting him… lol

[tadeokrzos]

Ok yall jokic officially the best big, this is not an argument anymore. This man literally on his second conference finals, he has the best chance this year to actually make it to the finals for the first time and embiid yet to make a conference finals ggs.