{"id":50860,"date":"2025-05-23T00:21:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T00:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/50860\/"},"modified":"2025-05-23T00:21:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T00:21:11","slug":"76ers-rookie-reveals-joel-embiids-thoughts-on-foul-baiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/50860\/","title":{"rendered":"76ers Rookie Reveals Joel Embiid\u2019s Thoughts on Foul-Baiting"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Indiana Pacers defeated the New York Knicks, 138-135, in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals on Wednesday inside Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n

During the first quarter, with two minutes, 50 seconds remaining on the clock, Knicks guard Jalen Brunson drew a personal foul on Pacers guard T.J. McConnell. The play received mixed reactions from members of the AT&T Connected Cam, who thought Brunson was foul-baiting. However, Philadelphia 76ers rookie Jared McCain responded differently because he thought it was a smart play.<\/p>\n

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McCain, 21,\u00a0said he talked<\/a> about using the method with his teammate and all-star center Joel Embiid, who has used it to draw fouls. McCain added that it\u2019s a smart play and can be used to manipulate the game in your favor.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven when I talk to Joel (Embiid) about it, he thinks it\u2019s just playing the game smart,\u201d McCain said. \u201cKnowing how to manipulate the game in your own way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Foul-baiting refers to the act of a player intentionally trying to draw a foul while being tightly guarded to force a stoppage or a trip to the free-throw line. Players like Embiid and Brunson do this by falling toward their defenders when taking a shot to force the defender to make contact with them.<\/p>\n

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Philadelphia 76ers guard Jared McCain.Kyle Ross-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

Brunson did it again during Wednesday\u2019s game by using his arm to force Pacers forward Aaron Nesmith\u2019s hand to smack his eye. The forced contact was not called a foul but was another example of foul-baiting.<\/p>\n

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Game 2 of the Pacers and Knicks series is on Friday, so watch closely for more instances of foul-baiting so you can determine for yourself if it\u2019s a smart tactic or not. The game begins at 8 p.m. ET on TNT.<\/p>\n

Related: Michael Jordan\u2019s Former Agent Doesn\u2019t Hold Back on Bold NBC Role Prediction<\/a><\/p>\n

76ers Rookie Reveals Joel Embiid\u2019s Thoughts on Foul-Baiting<\/a> first appeared on Athlon Sports on May 22, 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Indiana Pacers defeated the New York Knicks, 138-135, in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3769],"tags":[679,280,7,2955,126,288,1255,936,1634,6,191,12581,678,207,3817,3886],"class_list":{"0":"post-50860","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-76ers","8":"tag-76ers","9":"tag-aaron-nesmith","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-eastern-conference-finals","12":"tag-indiana-pacers","13":"tag-jalen-brunson","14":"tag-jared-mccain","15":"tag-joel-embiid","16":"tag-madison-square-garden","17":"tag-nba","18":"tag-new-york-knicks","19":"tag-personal-foul","20":"tag-philadelphia","21":"tag-philadelphia-76ers","22":"tag-philadelphia76ers","23":"tag-t-j-mcconnell"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114554292448691548","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}