Is the Philadelphia 76ers’ season over? | The Athletic NBA Show

Is the Philadelphia 76ers’ season over? | The Athletic NBA Show

We have some disheartening news regarding dwell embiid in what is surprisingly like the worst way I think you can describe a knee injury he has a displaced flap of his meniscus just call it a tear why aren’t we calling this a tear like that sounds

Like a tear to me tear is a scary word displaced flap is way scarier the whole spread of information during this has been strange it’s been the wording of everything has been different yeah like I don’t know why they’re not just being more forthcoming about this yeah it’s

Almost like one guy’s trying to control the whole news um I think for this uh obviously embiid’s gonna be gone for a while he’s opting for a procedure they are not ruling out that uh he’s done for the season but unless he comes back and he’s just like completely painfree moving like he

Hasn’t moved before Jay why bring him be back this season yeah to to to me especially they’re not like the title favorite regardless right like that that team to me is still another piece away um I I think they’re actually fortunate in some ways that it happened before the trade

Deadline because they were a candidate to go out and get some help and try to upgrade the roster around embiid and make a big move to to try to position themselves to being a better chance to compete for a title and now I think they’ll maybe take a different view

Preserve some of that cap space that they’re going to have coming up and and to me whether he comes back or not he’s probably going to be compromised and this team with a compromise Joel embiid even if he’s on the court is just not going to be good enough they they rely

On him for so much and uh I mean with the way the standings are while he’s out they could slide a wild they’re defense has been disgusting since he’s been out they have a little bit of a cushion um between now between where they are and like falling to sixth

And and then and then seventh if they were to fall out of the playing tournament but I mean we got a lot of season left without Joel embiid going to be in the mix um Josh if if embiid comes back and we’re unsure of his status like obviously you’re not taking the Sixers

Against Boston are you would you take them against Milwaukee I don’t think so I think listen like the Sixers you know for better for worse have been extremely cautious when it comes to embiid so I don’t see why that they would change anything going forward especially with the slide that they

Might take without him so I just I I like even if he is quote unquote healthy I don’t think they bring him back regardless they’ve been so cautious with him with everything right I think that I think I would take five like if not pre-injury but with this injury and him

Coming back like even like let’s say he came back the week before this the season ended for some reason right like I and they were going to be in the top six or they managed to avoid the plan like I wouldn’t pick them against Boston I wouldn’t pick them against Milwaukee I

Wouldn’t pick him against the Knicks the I know you would pick him against he the Cavs no but I mean I wouldn’t pick him against the Heat anyway they always lose the heat like they always lose in the second round but like there’s probably at least five teams I’m taking over this

Sixers team plus like oh maybe embiid can be healthy right I just yeah I just don’t see it I don’t see the need to rush him back when to be completely honest like going into this offseason like embiid is a huge draw for someone to come play in

Philly he is a massive draw for some star somewhere who’s looking for a change to want to come play with embiid you know play with Maxi play with maxi exactly like that is a team that is enticing they’re a team that is one piece away from being a

Serious serious problem for people in the playoffs they have a ton of cap space this summer ton exctly and they have some decent pieces that they can that they can move in order to make a play at becoming a contender um so I just think they sit they sit on it wait

See what happens in the offseason and I think the the other piece of this too is that does have now a long injury history this is his second injury to this meniscus I believe and so he’s had knee issues before he’s obviously huge guy puts a

Ton of pounding on his knees when he runs and and you just need to be cautious I would be super cautious with Joel and B that as BR Brown used to call him that’s the Crown Jewel like this guy was having an unbelievable season he was like like Kobe Bryant with Kevin

Durant’s accuracy from the mid-range it was insane like the footwork that he has the the the touch that he’s developed on that jump shot like he became just impossible in that mid-range area to stop 3511 and like almost six assists on like 55% shoo what I see on Pace to be

The first person since Wilt to average one point per minute played yeah and he never yeah he he has more points than minutes ABD he has more points thanes as of right now yeah it’s crazy crazy

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