The Philadelphia 76ers could also be about to drag the plug on their season, beginning with the standing of middle Joel Embiid.
Embiid and the 76ers are consulting medical doctors to think about options for the middle’s knee damage, based on Shams Charania of ESPN. Either side are admitting that their present efforts to handle Embiid’s knee damage haven’t made a distinction.
It’s unclear what, particularly, Embiid and the Sixers may do at this level. Nonetheless, this would appear to counsel there’s a critical danger of the middle lacking extra time within the weeks to come back.
Notably, Embiid sat out your complete fourth quarter of Saturday’s sport towards the Brooklyn Nets, although the sport went right down to the wire. He completed with simply 14 factors in 31 minutes of motion.
After the sport, 76ers coach Nick Nurse brazenly admitted that Embiid is “not himself” and is “giving us what he can.”
The information on Embiid’s well being has been constantly dangerous for a while now. The middle not too long ago recommended he will likely need another surgery on his troublesome left knee, although he has been making an attempt to place it off till the offseason.
The Sixers don’t sound like they wish to shut Embiid down. Nonetheless, they’re now 20-36 after Saturday’s loss, and look like heading for a misplaced season. The group merely doesn’t have a lot to realize from working him on the market at this level.
By his lofty requirements, Embiid has been a shell of himself this season. He’s averaging 23.8 factors and eight.2 rebounds per sport, and is on observe for his worst marketing campaign since his first full NBA season in 2016-17.
