Mike Francesa’s Rookie Mistake at Stony Brook Seriously Flawed!
Mike Francesa makes hilarious gaffe about St. John’s star Zuby Ejiofor
One of the best things about March Madness is when people who don’t follow the sport during the season suddenly chime in with hot takes and “insight” at this time of year. Case in point: New York radio legend Mike Francesa. During his Bet Rivers podcast ( via the Funhouse X/Twitter account) , Francesa explained that Ejiofor transferred from Kansas to St.
John’s in 2023 because he didn’t want to sit behind Joel Embiid any longer. As Funhouse pointed out, “Embiid’s last game with Kansas was in March, 2014 when Zuby was nine years old. Not to mention that Embiid only spent one year in college.
” Embiid had already been in the NBA for nine seasons by the time Ejiofor announced his transfer to St. John’s in May 2023. In fact, Embiid was named NBA MVP that same month.
The truth is that Ejiofor transferred in part because Kansas had just added Michigan transfer Hunter Dickinson, who announced his transfer earlier in May 2023. “I heard everything they had to say and I felt the love from the entire staff and just how beautiful the campus was and how I saw myself developing,” Ejiofor told ZAGSBLOG in a phone interview when he transferred. He chose the Johnnies over Villanova, TCU and San Diego State.