BOSTON -- When word emerged that Joel Embiid had been voted an Eastern Conference All-Star starter before Thursday's game in Boston, Philadelphia 76ers coaches and teammates flocked to his locker stall to celebrate the moment. That parade of well-wishers included Sixers coach Brett Brown, who came over from the coaches' room to offer a congratulatory handshake then gushed about what Embiid's nod means to the Sixers franchise as a whole. "Like somebody just gave one of your children a star and put it on his paper. It's true," Brown said. "[Embiid] and I have been doing this for a long time, and I have been with him the longest out of any of the players in the locker room. He's gone through a lot. To think that somebody that's played -- what is it, 65 games? -- just from that small sample size is now on the All-Star team and starting? "His story of perseverance is remarkable, and his story as it reflects the organization and the process that we've all been going...