Sixers fans, and Joel Embiid himself, sure are having fun with #NBAVote

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After the hard-hitting news that Brett Brown is on board with Joel Embiid's campaign to become an All-Star so that he'll have a chance with his crush, it was reported yesterday that JoJo just may have a shot.

Embiid came in as the frontcourt player with the fourth most votes in the Eastern Conference. And with plenty of time left to campaign, JoJo hit the tweets to drum up support.

He used a clever -- if old school -- Twitter tactic. He employed a fake retweet of the president-elect of the Unites States, the ratings machine himself Donald J. Trump.

This wasn't the first time JoJo mentioned Trump in a tweet. You may recall after Trump won the electoral college, Embiid tweeted that America was tanking.

While that may or may not be the case, we thought we'd take a look at some of the more creative attempts Embiid supporters have employed to get the big man into the All-Star game and on a date with his crush, Rihanna or otherwise.

There's the straight forward:

There's the Lil Dickey endorsement:

There's a call to patriotism:

There's the cross-team promotion:

There's pulling at Philly's heart strings:

And plenty of other tactics:

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