Both men crossed a line but it all ended up okay – nobody was hurt, nothing was said that can’t be unsaid and nobody’s losing their job
If you had to guess where in the world a pro athlete would lie in wait to ambush a sportswriter, Philadelphia would probably be your first, second and third guess. When it comes to sports, that city is not kidding around.
The alleged assailant in this instance is 76ers’ centre Joel Embiid. He has yet to play this season. The story going around is that that’s because he’s run down after a long, indulgent summer. Without Embiid, theA sports columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer, Marcus Hayes, did what columnists do in such situations – he brought a piano to work and dropped it on Embiid’s head for a thousand words.of opinion writing – cutting and unambiguous.
Both men crossed a well-understood line – Hayes with his words, Embiid with his actions. But in the end, the reputations of both men are burnished. Remember when most disagreements ended this way, because you had to see the people you disagreed with all the time? Those really were the good old days. It is a wonder how cruel we can be to each other while sitting over a laptop, and how scandalized we have become by any sort of real-life confrontation. The two things must be linked.
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