A Quote by Joel Embiid
Back in 2011, I was kind of shy. I wasn't as good because that was the year, also, when I started playing basketball.
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Are you staring at me because you've seen my doppelganger roaming the halls, playing kind of the cafeteria? Or because you need to borrow a pencil and you're too shy to ask?
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