Joel Embiid has turned the Sixers’ famed process into performance art, and everyone is feeling merry and bright -- for now.

Of course he is aware it makes people within the organization crazy that their budding superstar keeps giving shoutouts to the deposed general manager who led the franchise to one of the worst stretches in NBA history. That’s kind of the point.

“On social media, I can hide behind the computer or the iPhone,” Embiid says. “Internet courage.”