As the title says, why is he allowed to do so? I get that he’s technically an American citizen, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that he should be allowed to play for Team USA. He only moved to the US at age 16, which means he spent the majority of his life in Cameroon. I get that Cameroon didn’t qualify for the team, but had Embiid played for them in the qualifiers they almost certainly would have.

As a European it’s just weird to me that this is both allowed by USA Basketball and is just accepted by supporters of Team USA. Other countries wouldn’t just let this happen just to stack the deck, they would play fairly by only selecting people from their country.