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It took five ball boys to mop the spot Joel Embiid slipped on

Brett Brown isn’t playing games

Slipping and falling is a common thing that happens in basketball.

But when your potentially great, yet fragile, 7’2 center slips, everything’s gotta stop. Including the basketball.

Brett Brown earned the 76ers a delay-of-game penalty in the middle of the fourth quarter of their matchup with the Pistons after Brown stopped the game and demanded the floor be mopped when Joel Embiid slipped going for a rebound.

THIS IS NOT A GAME. Brown ran out to the middle of the floor and demanded that the spot be cleaned before the game continued.

Every. Single. Ball boy. Get out here. Protect the process.

The Process is safe. Great job, Brown.

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