Joel Embiid has joined a growing chorus of voices led by Jay Z and Colin Kaepernick arguing to free rapper Meek Mill from prison.
Embiid visited Mill —a 30-year-old Philadelphia native —in prison on Friday to show his support.
Here's Embiid on visiting @MeekMill in prison and showing his support: pic.twitter.com/J959UCtqXe
— Marshall Harris (@mharrisonair) December 2, 2017
“First of all, it was scary,” Embiid said on Saturday after shootaround. “I’m never going to jail. I got into that place and I was pretty scared. I just wanted to go out there, support him, pretty good friend of mine. So I just wanted to go out there, show him some support and let him know that we’re behind him. There was a little bit of injustice there so I just wanted to go out there with whoever I was to show him the support.”
Mill has received an outpouring of support from fans, athletes and celebrities since being sentenced to two to four years in prison on November 6 for violating his parole with arrests stemming from a St. Louis airport fight and reckless driving in New York City.
The case has been a strange and complex one, with Mill’s people claiming the judge had made some weird requests.
The 76ers have long been supporters of the rapper.
Co-owner Michael Rubin wrote a letter to Judge Genece E. Brinkley in an effort to keep Meek Mill out of jail, while Embiid and Ben Simmons attended Jay-Z’s 4:44 concert in Philadelphia wearing shirts in support of Mill.