Joel Embiid has certainly come a long way in three years. Growing up in Cameroon, he had never played on a basketball team until 2011 and then this spring, he was the third overall pick in the NBA Draft. Earlier this week, the Philadelphia 76ers rookie tweeted a photo of himself from a 2011 at Basketball Without Borders program in South Africa

TB to when I started playing basketball 3 years ago and right before I came to the US, I WAS SO SKINNY #chickenwings pic.twitter.com/qW7zTn7yzQ — Joel-Hans Embiid (@JoelEmbiid) August 5, 2014

Keeping with Embiid’s theme, and knowing how much he enjoys social media, the Sixers created the hashtag #TransformationTuesday for the rookie with this photo.

That is quite a transformation indeed. Embiid was 17 years old in the photo on the left and is almost unrecognizable to the muscular 7-footer he is now.

(Thanks to Extra Mustard for sharing.)