Paul George suffers OFFSEASON INJURY – Locked On 76ers

Paul George suffers OFFSEASON INJURY – Locked On 76ers

Let’s throw out the age-old question as to whether or not the 76ers can stay healthy during the regular season when they can’t even Keith stay healthy in the off season. We’ll break down Paul George’s injury and his surgery when we come back here on Locked on 76ers. You are Locked On 76ers, your daily Philadelphia 76ers podcast. Part of the Locked on Podcast Network. your team every day. And we do thank you for making Lockdown 76ers your first listen every day. Part of the Lockdown podcast network, your team every day. Keith Pompei, Philly, Philly Inquirer, writer for your 76ers. Mark Farzett, I’ve been talking sports with you for about 20 years here in the city of Philadelphia. Sham Shardia put the story out there yesterday. Sixers also put out a comment on it as well when it comes to Paul George needing offseason surgery, arth arthoscopic surgery on his knee for an injury suffered during his offseason workouts. Keith, I believe you could confirm this. We can’t have nice things, can we? No, we can’t. We can’t. And yeah, he had he had surgery yesterday. Now, the good part is from what I hear is it was just a going in there cleaning. They didn’t really deal with major ligaments in the knee or anything like that. So, it’s basically, you know, he had it scoped out, cleaned up a little bit. But the bad thing is, you know, to me is is one of those things where, you know, we know he had knee problems since the preeason with with the 76ers, right? Um last preeason and here you go, you’re still having problems and you had to get it, you know, scoped. Um, so a guy is 35 years old, it it could mean nothing, but at the same time, like you said, you know, we’re we’re still talking about injuries with the Sixers. And especially a couple days after Daryl my came out and said that essentially all three of his big three, Joel Embiid, Paul George, Tyreek Maxi, need to be healthy for them to be NBA championship contenders. So, this is something that you do not want to hear, especially from a guy who missed 41 games last year inund I believe 74 games during his tenure with the uh with the Clippers. Yeah. Also a guy coming off statistically his worst career year in about eight, nine years. So, none of this is is adding up well for the Sixers. And and look, we we got this out of the way yesterday. We talked about Daryl Mory’s comments and we talked about how yeah, you don’t have a chance unless Joel Embiid and Paul George are healthy. And then literally the Monday following the weekend that he made those comments, Paul George is going under the knife. Now, my first thought when you see the arthoscopic surgery and you’re going, okay, it’s probably a scope. You’re cleaning it out and all that, but still, as you mentioned, Keith, you’re talking about a 35year-old with injury history issues throughout his NBA career. You’re also talking about what $51.6 million owed just this year goes up to 55 million I think next year. Then you got the player option. Not to mention Joel Embiid barely stepping onto a basketball court. Oh, and then then there’s also this VJ Edgecom. What’s going on? What is What is going on with that? We’ll get more specific into that in a second, but we don’t even know. We hear from Daryl my it goes from the thumb contusion to the thumb sprain. Then Daryl my throws the word wrist in there and we’re like, is this spreading? Is it going to be the elbow next week? Is it the shoulder? Like the the injury issues here with the 76ers are just mind-numbing. And I I have no idea how the 76ers can inspire any confidence whatsoever from the fan base when they have no idea what they’re buying for the upcoming season other than the pretty good hunch that the Sixers are going to go going to go through another injury riddled season. And the unfortunate thing, there’s no light at the end of the tunnel. There’s no first round pick to tank for this year. Yeah. And you know what the big thing that really stood out with what you said and before I say that I want to make sure I had it right. Get it right. He missed 127 games during his five years with the Clippers. Not 170. That’s been crazy. But anyway, so so here’s the deal. The thing that really stood out to me that what you said was, you know, you say you think of a scope and we hear about like, okay, a scope isn’t bad. people saying he just needs to clean up. But when we go back to what was said about VJ Edgecomb, at first it was just a bruise and then all of a sudden and it became a sprain. So when there’s lack of transparency, people tend to always assume the worst. You know what I mean? It’s kind of like that little boy that cried wolf and then he’s like, “Oh no, he’s crying wolf.” And then like, “No, no, this is for real.” Nah, man. Stop playing. Stop playing. We know. You know what I mean? So right now it’s like you don’t know what to believe and you want to believe it but at the same time it’s kind of like let’s wait and see. And it’s been the same thing with Joel Embiid like you know hey Joel everything is fine then all of a sudden you find out there’s knee swelling he can’t play this and that. So yeah this is the problem right now with that and and you but you look at it and you got to say to yourself what’s going on like this is a reoccurring thing. is always someone’s getting hurt. You can’t go se you can’t go 3 months without something uh happening. Now here you can’t even go a couple weeks without anything happening. So it is it it’s disappointing and this isn’t the way that you want to head into a season regardless of how minor his surgery is. This isn’t a way you want to go into the season. Yeah. Uh trust issues. I can understand that with the fan base. trust issues when it comes to the 76ers. And look, I understand you’re not going to come out and talk about everything with every injury and give every little detail on everything, but just be real about what what what the amount of time that could be missed by a player. For instance, you mentioned Joel Embiid, and that’s the easiest one to go to, but you’re talking about in history, you’re talking about the whole Brian Kangelo didn’t tear his meniscus. Okay, wait. He did tear his boniscus and then he’s out for the rest of the season. Or even before they put him out for the season, they still play him on that for a national game against James Harden and the Houston Rockets and then he’s done after that. Uh you talk about Joel Embiid going to play in the Olympics after having surgery, playing in the Olympics, winning a gold medal, then coming back and he’s not regular for the ready for the start of the season there. Whatever they tell us, we you’re right. We always assume the worst because this is just the tip of the It’s like, you know, a kid breaks a window and they come and tell you like, “Well, I um I kind of just cracked the the window a little bit and you go, what?” And then you walk in there and the window’s just completely blown out and you’re going, “Wait, why didn’t you just tell me it was this bad?” But instead, the information just leaks out. Yeah. Yeah. It’s bad. I mean, like even think about it, you know, uh Daryl my yesterday, I mean, a couple days ago, he had that comment and and again, he he had the comment like we’re we feel really confident about Joel, you know, starting the season and then all of a sudden there’s an athletic report saying he has not been on the court. Well, then it basically came out and said that, well, he wasn’t a full participant. But again, you know, this could be semantics on how what level he’s doing stuff, right? But at the same time, it was one of those things where it it was just a bad eye for for Mory and and maybe he was saying everything right, but people just always assume. Um, and I hate to repeating what repeat what you say, but it’s just one of those things that right now the Sixers just have to build trust. And and and here’s the thing I want to say about Paul George. You know, when Paul George first came here, he talked about wanting to be like a closeout guy, a guy who could take some of the pressure off of Maxi, take stuff off of MB. And then all of a sudden, it’s like he he misses misses 41 games and amid that time he comes back out and says, “All I have to do is get healthy and you guys can see what I can do.” And now all of a sudden, he’s injured again. And now we’re looking at it as if like they gave up all this money like you said for him. And is this is Paul George actually going to be a guy who can be a difference maker or did they give a lot of money to a often injured guy who’s no longer able to compete a complete a season? And you know, you have to wonder that, Mark. You do because as much as if he’s healthy and if he’s playing at a level, um, yeah, he can help you. But right about now, I mean, we haven’t seen it. And the one year that he played well, two years ago was a contract year. And we all know that in every sport, there’s always a guy busting their tail during a contract year to get that next payday. So, the main question is who is Paul George really going to be now? The banged up dude or is he going to be the guy who who’s playing at an elite level? Yeah. Uh, I’m betting on the banged up dude. I’m not rooting for it, but I’m betting on it. And I I hate to put that out there. I mean, if you’re if you’re being real if you’re being real Yeah. If you’re being real, like what’s your what’s your educated guess here? What’s your hypothesis with all the evidence that’s been put in front of you as to whether or not Paul George and Joel Embiid are going to be healthy this season and Paul George going to be that close out dude? He’s going to be the guy to take pressure off Maxi and maybe if Embiid’s out there pressure off him too. What what in all honesty the hypothesis is oh yeah no that’s not happening. The the the outlook on the Sixers is grim. And that’s I don’t want it to be. I I want to I want to see a parade Keith. I want you to cover a parade for the Inquirer. I want to be down there interviewing people, just partying, having myself a great time, celebrating the 76ers, but it’s not gonna happen soon. Dude, I just want to cover a conference championship. That’s what I just want I just want to cover a conference championship. Like Yeah. Yeah. That’s Look at you. I just I just want to cover that’s all I want. All right. I’m gonna ask you this question. All right. And you don’t have to answer right away. We’ll we’ll come back with it. Okay. All right. Who who who gets out of the second round of the playoffs first? Okay. The Philadelphia 76ers or the Philadelphia WNBA team that has not yet named, not yet been played. Not yet played. You answer that question when we come back. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Who’s Who’s the now, Keith? Who’s asking the tough questions now? All right. I’ll You can answer that when we come back. This is Locked on 76ers on the Locked on Sixers YouTube channel. Hey, let me tell you about FanDuel. You guys will be having a good time on FanDuel. Summer sports in full swing. And whether you’re all about baseball under the lights, golf on the green, maybe the All-Star game as well in baseball, high stakes soccer action, FanDuel is the best way to make every moment more exciting. You’re already following the action. Why not make it a little bit more thrilling? With FanDuel, you can get in on the game while your friends are getting sunburned on the beach. I’ve been using Fan FanDuel to track my favorite matchups. The app keeps it fresh with new daily promotions and fun ways to bet. It’s easy to use, has a fast payout as well, that’s always important, and makes even regular season games feel like mustwatch events. Whether I’m placing a same game parlay bet or watching a bet right in the ninth inning, FanDuel makes it feel like a I’m part of the action. That’s what FanDuel does. So, if you’re new to FanDuel, new customers can bet $5. Just $5 and get $150 in bonus bets if your first bet wins. Open the FanDuel app today or visit FanDuel.com to get started. That’s fanduel.com. All right. Who’s making it out, Keith? The the the what? The Liberty Bells is I’ve seen the name Philadelphia. That’s all that too. That’s Philadelphia John. That that’s the team that nobody wants to play. Nobody wants to play the Jons. Some some shady stuff’s going to go down. You play the J. You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah. You don’t play the J. You don’t play the J. Uh, wow. That’s a good one. So that team that team is coming in two 2030, right? 2030, Keith. Yes. I’m glad I don’t have to bet my house on this one. I know, right? Um Wow. Oh, I’m sorry. I’m sorry I’m enjoying this so much. Well, well, no, because it’s like Wow. It’s really like because you don’t you know, if you feel if you want to be real, like honestly, I want to say the other team like the the the Philadelphia WNBA team, but you never know what that team’s going to be like. So, I’mma have to say, but they’re going to have pretty good players. Yeah. I don’t know, man. So, I don’t know. I I think it may it’s going to be 32 33. Right now, this is 25. So, I will have to say the Sixers. I will have to say the Sixers because I’m giving them seven seasons. Seven seasons. I mean, seriously, I’m giving them seven season. I’ll spot you seven season. I’ll spot you seven seasons. Yeah. Yeah. I’m spotting them seven seasons. Now, again, if they don’t get it right right now, the next three seasons after that is going to be hard. They’re going to be It’s going to be hard. But you would think that Tyrese Maxi will be uh towards maybe the end of his career, but then they’ll have younger players. It’ll be VJ Edgecomb. It will be Jared McCain. It will be and then guys along with them. So they’ll get rid of Joel Embi’s contract at that particular time. Paul George will be long going. So they’ll have a new general manager in place, you know, the whole nine. So, I think that at that particular time, I think that they should be fine. I I I seven seasons now. Exactly. Sorry about this rabbit hole, but there’s there’s that world that within the next five or seven seasons, they they realize like, wow, we really got to sell the h we got to sell the farm. Maxi’s got to be traded. Got to flip him for picks. VJ Edgecom traded. Like there’s a world where this just completely goes and blows up. There’s a world where this just is is a horrible failure, more so than it’s already been. And they got to completely revamp, rebuild, another processesque type of awful run. Meanwhile, the WNBA comes to town and they’re amazing. No. Uh but you don’t know. You don’t know. Uh none of us know. All right. Speaking of, you mentioned VJ Edgecom a couple times there. Status for tonight, status for tomorrow night, summer league obviously winding down for the Sixers in Vegas. What What do you know? Anything changed with VJ Edge? Well, here’s the deal. Like VJ Edgecom was a full participant at practice yesterday. The Sixers were basically um raving over how he he he performed at practice. I mean, they were basically the coach TJ Deo was basically saying he reminded them and he was playing at practice like he did that first game the uh when when they played against the Utah Jazz. So, the thing is typically a lot of times when it comes down to it, they want to know how your f excuse me, your hand feels, right? if there’s any like setbacks from the practice and everything like that before you were cleared. So, you know, they didn’t announce it that he was playing tonight or not, but the fact that he was a full participant, it makes it seemed like hopeful. And you and I, we did talk about it and you asked me the one time, what game if you if you had a if if you thought that there was a game that he would play, which one would it be? And I always said it would be tonight’s game. Um, just because, you know, they’re gonna play in the back. You know, tomorrow’s night game is against Dallas. Tonight, you know, you’ll play this game and then next thing you know, you have an excuse for sitting them the next game because they’re playing it on a backto back. So, to me, I feel like, you know, VJ Edgecom, you know, could or most likely will play tonight. But again, I picked him to play beforehand and guess what happened? The Sixers is like, “You’re wrong, Pompei.” But based off of how they’re saying he really wants to play. I also think that the NBA is like, “Look y’all, um, you know, he’s playing against the Washington Wizards. They have young stars tonight and he has not played at all. If he’s able to play, you need to get him out there.” So, I do think that we’ll see him tonight at 8:30 p.m. at Thomas and Mack going up against the Washington Wizards. There we go. And look, I I really want I just I really want to watch him play. That’s what this is all about. You have a top three pick in the summer league. You want to be able to watch him play. And I know we’ve talked about guys having struggles in the past. We talked about guys having injuries in the past. Ben Simmons, the struggles Jared McCain had and all that you’ve mentioned many times. But with VJ Edgecom, you saw him go out there. No. Yeah. Bringing the ball up, bringing a being a point guard, struggles, but 28 points, 10 rebounds, and showing that he absolutely had that fight in him throughout that game and was smart about it. I I want to see more of this guy. I I want to continue. I look, if you want to build any optimism surrounding the 76ers to where a question like, will a W will a non-existent WNBA team make it to the second round before that? You want to throw that question out like, ah, that’s ridiculous. What a ridiculous question. That’s a real question. Yeah, it’s a real question. But if you want to start throwing it away for getting it away from something like that, inspire some confidence in this fan base. There’s Sixers fans are watching Summer League. They’re especially going to watch if VJ Edgecom is playing. Sixers fans are talking about it on social media. They’re commenting on our show about it. They watch, they pay attention. Give us a little bit more hope than, you know, oh, Don Barlo had a good game. You know what I mean? Like, we want to see the number three overall pick, continue to take those little steps forward when it comes to facilitating. We want to see him, you know, work on the outside shooting. We want to see him just do what he does well, cut to the basket, show off his athleticism, pick a couple pockets. We just show me that. Just give me a little a little appetizer. That’s it. A little appetizer. Give me this summer league play. Let me see him play at that high level and be the guy that he was in the only game he’s played for the Sixers so far to this point, which is the best player on the floor. Look, I’m going read this to I’m going read this to you. This is how the fans feel right about now. So, yesterday morning at 8:21 a.m., I just got up and I was just wanting to, you know, engage with the fans. So on Twitter, my Twitter handle is Pompei on Sixers, and I tweeted out, “Which Summer Sixers player has impressed you the most in the NBA 2K26 summer league?” I only got five responses. One response was, “Are you serious, Keith? How can any part of slot be impressive?” Then the guy said, “VJ, maybe, but that’s done since he can’t tape up his thumb to play now.” And then some people liked it, but this guy, but the thing is VJ didn’t play in the uh you know summer that summer league. He played in the other one. So then this one other guy comes back and says I stopped watching after VJ got injured. Sounds like I made the right choice. Right. And then another guy says absolutely no one. Why M McC McCain didn’t play is out of my comprehension scope. So it’s weird. And normally when I do stuff like that, you get a lot of responses. Isn’t that only five people? Other people are like, “You’re an idiot. What are you talking about? No one’s watching this.” You know, so if VJ, I’m telling you, if VJ does play, they’re going to get a lot of people watching this game. Oh, sure. Especially in the Philly area, you know. Yeah. Yeah. I I see I see comments that are definitely suggest they watch. Um for how long is questionable, but yeah, if if VJ come plays, then yeah, at least you’re talking about something somewhat interesting of at least seeing him play at a professional level and hopefully continue to show off why he was picked at number three overall. And hopefully you get the opportunity to watch that tonight. When we come back, Keith, I want to break down some of the untradeables and I also want to talk about an article you wrote over the weekend. I think it was Sunday’s edition on inquire.com when it comes to the 76ers essentially running it back and yes unfortunately injuries and all running it back. We’ll talk about that and more when we return. This is Locked on 76ers podcast. 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Uh uh Trent Waford not playing in the summer league but going to be on the squad. Other than that, Sixers right now are running it back essentially with the same cast of characters. And two of those main characters unfortunately have been banged up for much of the last two seasons in particular, uh, Paul George and Joel Abida. Um, is this is this the plan? Is this the real plan the Sixers have to actually attempt to compete in the Eastern Conference? You know what? I think they don’t have any other option right now. Like and see part of the problem is and we talked about this. This is part of the reason why they couldn’t bring back Gershan Yabuselli because well they you know they don’t have the money. Now, the deal is you could have brought him back, but you didn’t want to bring him back because you’re going after Quinton Grimes and like even the two guys you talked about like Judah Mintz and and uh Hood Shafino, you know, they may get a one of them may get a training camp invite, but aside from that, they’re not going to make the team because when you look at the 76ers right now, they have 14 players, right? During the regular season, I’m talking about 14 standard contract players. During the regular season, you’re only allowed to carry 15. So, who is that? That’s Quinton Grimes. But when you look at it, they have no other choice because the reason being is Joel Embiid is making 55.2 million. You can’t trade him. Paul George is making 51.6 million. He he just uh just came off of another surgery, so you can’t get rid of him. And then you know, Tyrese Maxi, that’s not a problem, but he’s making 37.9 million. So these three guys ate up your cap space big time, right? So they have they have no other choice but to run it back with these guys. Um, some people may have argued that you say to yourself like, well, why you bring back Kyle Lowry, 39 at with who’s making 3.6 million, but he is it’s 2.2 on the books. And while you bringing back Eric Gordon, who’s making 3.6, but it’s 2.2 on the books. You could go out and get you could go out and get uh uh H Shafino. you could get um Judah Mintz, but honestly, do we honestly think that those two guys at this stage of their career are better than Kyle Lowry and and Eric Gordon? You know what I mean? If you got to ask yourself that question, then maybe not, right? But at the same time, so to me, it’s like the Sixers are in a bad spot because of the contracts that were given last season. it set them back. So, it’s either you win a championship or you get egg in your face. You know what I mean? Because it’s is it’s like it’s is bad. It’s really bad. They don’t have the flexibility to move on and get a guy who will make it because let’s face if you’re going to trade Joe Bid, you probably want an all-star type of player, all NBA type of player to come back. You’re not going to get that. and you might not get anything really substantial for him because teams are fearful of being stuck with that contract. Absolutely. I I I continue to have this thought that Daryl my just really really wanted to drive cross country and he had it made up in his mind the kind of car he was going to drive and the mechanic kept telling him, “No, these cars are kind of rusted out, man. You don’t want to drive this.” He’s like, “No, it’s my dream to drive this car. I don’t think you want to do that.” All right, here’s $50 million. Give me that car. Actually, like $150 million. Give me that car. And then just you can’t get that. You can’t go from Philly to California, man, with with what you got right now. It’s unfortunate. It’s unfortunate. I know it’s not just Daryl my in that car. It’s everybody else. It’s all of Sixers nation. It’s all of Sixers fan base wanting this team to get over the hump. And it’s just not looking likely in the very near future, unfortunately. And the crazy thing is, I’m g just say this before we end too, and I apologize, but the crazy thing is, Mark, it’s kind of like when you look at it, everything that he did was he gambled, right? But when you gamble, sometimes you’re thinking, I’m gambling because, you know, it’s going to be better off in the long run. Like it would have, you know, Joel Embiid is a guy that most likely you think you’re going to give him an extension. If you waited another year, you see how these guys are making this crazy money, right? So, if you wait another year, then you have to give him one of those like even more expensive contracts, right? So, you’re like, “Okay, I’mma pay him soon. I’mma pay him early.” But then all of a sudden, he he only plays 19 games and you’re like, “Oh, brother, I really messed that up.” Paul George. Paul George and LeBron James were actually it was Tyrese Maxi was the number one free agent but he was restricted. Everybody knew he was coming back to the Sixers. Aside from that it was Paul George and LeBron James. So you go out and think I won the summer by getting Maxi resigning him and getting Paul George and then the wheels fall off on fall. So you’re like man I really messed up. Now, if everything would have gone right, then Daryl my everybody’s talking about Mory’s a genius. He’s a genius. But since they went, you know, the opposite now people are like, “Bro, I got to get out of Philly, man.” Like he he that drawn right there, you saying that drawing right there has messed up the team? Yeah. Abs. Oh, yeah. And and and it’s unfortunate because they bet on the James Harden horse. That didn’t work out. I mean, they bet on the the Ben Simmons horse that didn’t work out. They’ve been on the James Harden horse and that that been I mean, even go back to Mark Folz. But when you talk about Daryl Mory’s free agent acquisitions or trades, talking about James Harden, talking about Paul George and the extension of Joel Embiid has not worked out. Sorry, Sixers fans, but hey, we both think BJ Edgecom’s going to play tonight in summer league, so that’s exciting. Anyway, uh Keith Pompei, make sure you guys are reading all the stuff on inquire.com. I’m Mark Farzetta. We’ll be back with you guys tomorrow with another edition of 76ers. Locked on 76ers. And hopefully, yes, we will be talking about VJ Edgecom participating in a summer league game tonight. Talk to you guys then. See you.

Keith and Marc talk about the impact of Paul George’s surgery after injury his knee during an offseason work.

The show also discusses the status of VJ Edgecombe heading into Tuesday night’s Summer League tip-off vs the Washington Wizards.
Plus, Marc asked Keith, “who will make it out of the 2nd Round of the Playoffs first, the 76ers or Philly’s WNBA team (that starts in 2030)?

Segment 1: Paul George injury and surgery

Segment 2: Who makes it out of the 2nd round first, Sixers or Philly WNBA team?

Segment 3: The Untradeables? PG and Embiid

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