NBA Social Rankings: Joel Embiid Owns The NBA Draft Lottery

Who won the week off the floor in the NBA? This week's social highlights feature the NBA Draft Lottery, Joel Embiid, Metta World Peace and more.

Welcome back to The Crossover’s weekly social media power rankings, where we determine who won the week off the court. This week, Joel Embiid returns to prominence at the draft lottery, Shaq destroys in pickup, and Metta World Peace makes more purchases from the NBA Store. We’ll rank performances from best to worst. Here’s how the week shook out:

1. Joel Embiid

Joel Embiid is all of us trying to figure out how the lottery actually works
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— ♛ (@kobe9616) May 17, 2017

Oh yeah, you’re damn right Embiid is back. Just when we’d begun to miss him, the draft lottery pushed him back into the spotlight. And, boy, did he deliver. The nods, the confused looks, the gold shoes, the goddamn Shirley Temple he had with him! Wow.

2. Shaq

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This wasn’t even a barbecue chicken alert. This was like a succulent, juicy, slow-roasted piece of chicken glazed with homemade BBQ sauce alert. Straight-up ended this dude in pickup. I’d be surprised if he kept playing.

Oh yeah, and look at this face:

KLAY THOMPSON DIDNT MAKE A ALL NBA TEAM ARE YOU KIDDING ME RIGHT NOW, I'm with u DRAYMOND GREEN this is some Bs klay had 60 wit 11 dribbles pic.twitter.com/8kAYxtkiuR

— SHAQ (@SHAQ) May 19, 2017

3. Paul Pierce

And look what I leave behind for the Celts on my way out #1 pick😂👌🏾🙏🔥

— Paul Pierce (@paulpierce34) May 17, 2017

I supposed you did, Paul.

4. Mike Brown

So Coach Brown was running a few minutes late yesterday... 👀 pic.twitter.com/i4TLaAloCq

— Golden State Warriors (@warriors) May 17, 2017

Absolutely brilliant.

5. Metta World Peace

Imagine he’s been buying copious amounts of Kobe Bryant shirseys.

6. LeBron James

This is the best meme ever and LeBron is to thank for this particular video.

7. Gregg Popovich

Pop is asked if he saw SNL last night: "No. I was on my third dinner. I'm in San Francisco."

— Tim Bontemps (@TimBontemps) May 14, 2017

Baller alert!

8. Ben Simmons

Good Lord, Ben Simmons was massive as a baby.

9. Brandon Jennings

Good on Brandon and Smush (Fordham legend) for getting out there and hooping with the people. I’m sure it must have been fun to play with those dudes.

10. Tim Duncan

Tim Duncan just pranked media, pretended like he was going to talk, just walked by and said "is there a bathroom back there" #ksatsports pic.twitter.com/DlMbAQPndh

— RJ Marquez (@KSATRJ) May 19, 2017

Got em!