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Evan & Tiki

Joel Embiid vs KAT Is Not Over and the Knicks Will Feel It

Evan & Tiki

Audacy

Sports

4.2988 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2026

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Joel Embiid and Karl Anthony Towns may have publicly buried the hatchet, but Evan Roberts and Shaun Morash debate whether that rivalry ever truly disappeared. From their infamous 2019 fight to the brutal social media exchanges that followed, the guys revisit one of the NBA’s nastiest player feuds and explain why this playoff matchup could bring all of that tension roaring back to the surface. The conversation dives into Embiid’s reputation as a master agitator and whether the Knicks can avoid getting dragged into emotional mistakes during a high pressure series. Evan and Shaun discuss how much is on the line for both stars, why Karl Anthony Towns has to stay disciplined, and whether Embiid will fully embrace his role as basketball’s ultimate villain at Madison Square Garden. The show also shifts into a heartfelt tribute to legendary Yankees broadcaster John Sterling, with touching listener memories and a look back at some of his most iconic home run calls.

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0:00.0

In 2019, they legitimately got into a fist fight.

0:05.0

Okay, it was a real fight.

0:06.4

They were swings thrown.

0:08.0

Swings thrown?

0:08.9

Yeah, swings thrown.

0:10.4

Cat tried to punch Joel and Beatt.

0:12.4

And then famously, Carl Anthony Towns ended up on the bottom of the pile with Ben Simmons on top of him.

0:19.9

Yeah.

0:20.4

Forcing him to tap out. Like, Ben Simmons had some kind of wrestling move on him, and you do see Carl Anthony Towns his hand move slightly as if he's being tapped out, like he's facing Kurt Engel in a wrestling match. Yeah, the best moment of Ben Simmons career. I think it was that making cat tap out. Maybe so. But it was wild. It was crazy, right? They were tangling under the basket. It got physical and it was bad. So it was a real fight between two young emerging big man superstars, which on its surface is appealing enough. But then it got worse on social media. And I don't think any of this stuff was at work. I'll read you a few of the tweets from the days following the fight between Joel Embed and Carl Anthony Towns. Joel Embedd writes, that tough guy act ain't cutting it. You know what you are. You know what you've always been. And then he uses a word I cannot say. It starts with the letter P. Oh.

1:11.5

Yeah.

1:12.7

That ain't work.

1:13.7

That ain't work.

1:14.1

So he calls him that.

1:15.4

Then he says, say it louder for people in the back.

1:18.8

Been kicking your ass and pretty please make the playoffs before you talk.

1:23.7

It's a known thing that I owe you.

1:27.4

Or I own you. Own you you so he calls him the P word

1:31.4

says he owns him make the playoffs before you talk cat fires back by posting photos of

1:37.4

him being crying after a previous playoff series loss captioning it all bark and no bite.

1:45.1

Well deserved retort, by the way.

1:47.3

Yeah.

1:48.0

And I know it's only 2019 at the time, but it's kind of hilarious knowing that Embedd's

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