Top 5 debutants in the NBA Playoffs

#1 Joel Embiid

Joel Embiid is the best

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in the game already

Joel 'The Process' Embiid has been a revelation this season. Not only did he get voted in as an All-Star starter from the Eastern Conference, he's also in consideration for the Defensive Player of the Year award, and is probably a lock for first-team All-NBA consideration.

The good thing about Embiid's injury-enforced absence has been the way the Sixers have played without him. Once he gets back on the floor for Philly, he'll take them to a whole new level. After all, the net-rating differential of 11.8 points per 100 possessions that he holds over the course of the regular season has to mean something, doesn't it?

Once he's back to the Sixers' setup fully fit and firing, the Sixers are primed to make a run to the Eastern Conference Finals. Here's hoping that playoff Embiid is even more of a destructive force than regular season Embiid, and that the Sixers take down the Cavs in the Conference Finals as Paul Pierce has predicted.