Recently, the US men's basketball team almost lost to the South Sudanese men's basketball team in the Olympic warm-up match. The final score was 101-100. The US men's basketball team defeated South Sudan by only 1 point. After the game, former NBA player Arenas made malicious remarks about Embiid and South Sudan. Embiid expressed his views on this in an interview with reporters today.
Arenas previously said: "(Joel Embiid) is giving it to his old cousins āā(South Sudan)... They don't even have shoes to wear, they get their shoes from the United States, we have to give them Send some shoes... They all shoot with bare feet into the fruit basket."
When reporters talked about this, Embiid said: "I don't agree with this statement. First of all, I am an African. Playing for Team USA, I'm Cameroonian. I don't know exactly what he said, so I can't comment, but if it was that negative, it's disappointing because you know where we are. This position, everything Africa basketball has done has had some kind of impact, like I said, it's really unfortunate, especially in the world we live in now, with so much negativity."
