The staff of the France team were confident of their chances of playing for the Blues one day.
Imagine a racket with Rudy Gobert, Victor Wenbanyama and Joel Embiid inside.
She would wreak havoc and not just in defense.
On the night of November 13 to 14, the naturalized French pivot - but also American recently when he is of Cameroonian origin - crushed everything in his path.
Joel Embiid set the new points record this season, with 59 in Philadelphia's victory over Utah, eight more than Darius Garland, also impressive but beaten with Cleveland by Minnesota's Rudy Gobert at the same time.
The day after his 42 pawns against Atlanta, the pivot was even more overwhelming to overcome the Jazz (105-98).
Embiid came close to the triple-double (11 rebounds, 8 assists) and did not go far from an extremely rare quadruple-double with his 7 blocks inflicted.
Only Nate Thurmond, Alvin Robertson, Hakeem Olajuwon and David Robinson have achieved this feat.
He remains the first player in history to score at least 50 points, 10 rebounds, 5 assists and 5 blocks in a game, since blocks became an official stat in the 1973 season. 74.
Finally, to better measure his extraordinary performance, Embiid scored in the last quarter 26 of the 27 points of the Sixers, 7th in the East, who had started the second period six units behind, remaining under threat for a long time. Utah, beaten for the second time in a row and dislodged by Portland from the chair of leader in the West.
“I have never seen such a dominant performance, when it comes to combining defense and attack,” his coach Doc Rivers was amazed.