Photo Shows Joel Embiid Literally Tried to Gouge Karl-Anthony Towns' Eye Out
By Ryan Flores
Things heated up rather quickly during the fight between Philadelphia 76ers' Joel Embiid and Minnesota Timberwolves' Karl-Anthony Towns.
After the two started to bump each other, KAT failed to land a punch on Embiid, and instead, put him in a headlock as the two tumbled to the ground. However, before they both went down, Embiid pulled out all the stops to bring down the T-Wolves big man. However, he may have gone too far.
— Tom Haberstroh (@tomhaberstroh) October 31, 2019
The whole fight wasn't pretty, especially after the rest of the players and security got involved. After something like this, how in the world do you separate these two the next time they face off?
Embiid wasn't done there either, further adding insult to injury.
Embiid was laughing at KAT after they got separated ? pic.twitter.com/SesNb0VBKF
— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) October 31, 2019
Neither the results of the fight nor the result of the game were in Towns' favor. KAT was choked out by Ben Simmons before the fight was completely broken up, and the Sixers completely blew out the T-Wolves, 117-96.