...the threat he posed at the other end of the floor accounted for the nine-point lead the Sixers took into the second quarter: The Knicks were afraid to challenge him around the basket.
...the threat of him was enough to condition everything the Knicks did before they even did it.
...Embiid, when Philadelphia had the ball, looked a far cry from the tentative, easily exhausted, jump-shooting version of himself he'd shown in the handful of games since he'd returned from a meniscus injury.
...that the Knicks had the ball, he evidently looked, to them, like Godzilla, a different player whom he is not.
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