NBA: Joel Embiid had no time for social media coach

Joel Embiid's social media game cannot be coached.

The Sixers center has been a star on Twitter and Instagram ever since his college days at Kansas, but there was a time when people around Embiid tried to curtail his social media persona.

The effort thankfully was for naught.

Embiid joined ESPN's Rachel Nichols for a sit-down interview ahead of the Sixers' season opener against Boston. When Embiid's awesome Twitter account came up, Nichols asked Embiid if it was true that his first agent, Arn Tellem, hired him a social media coach. Embiid just didn't talk to the coach more than once.

Embiid said:

"I think I've probably talked to that social media coach probably once. Once and then that was it."

Before the coach could even have an extended conversation with Embiid, the newly drafted big man was tweeting at Rihanna and the legend was born.

Via ESPN:

At first, Embiid followed his instructions to post unassuming, sports-focused updates. "But unfortunately I got hurt and I didn't have anything to do," Embiid says. "I found social media was a way for me to open up and show the world who I was and also keep my name out there."

Pretty soon he was asking Rihanna out on a date and recruiting LeBron James via Twitter.

Sometimes it's good to be uncoachable.

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