Embiid out at least the next 2 games.
Sixers center Joel Embiid suffered an orbital fracture and a concussion Wednesday in a collision with teammate Markelle Fultz. He'll need surgery for the fracture. Sources told ESPN's Zach Lowe he could be back in two to four weeks.
He's already having fun with his newfound free time. Posting pics of himself in the hospital bed, tweeting out to Rihanna asking if she's single now, etc.You know Joel is going to have fun with the mask. The trainer will probably have to talk him out of wearing the same mask from The Phantom of the Opera.
This is incorrect.Gotta give props to Colangelo for the team that he built.
4 years ago players would have begged to not go there. Now they’re set up to be a regular in the ECF. Quite remarkable.D-Wade praises 76ers after Game 4:
http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/sixers/sixers-heat-76ers-nba-playoffs-dwyane-wade-ben-simmons-joel-embiid-20180421.html
They tanked and found two gold nuggets in the draft. Colangelo added three shooters this year for Simmons to feed. Not sure you can pencil anyone into the conference finals on a regular basis. Boston and Toronto remain the two best teams until proven otherwise and Indiana is a tough out for anyone.4 years ago players would have begged to not go there. Now they’re set up to be a regular in the ECF. Quite remarkable.
Don’t forget the Saric deal, which was a great one. They were patient waiting for this all to come together. Obviously, Embiid needs to stay healthy but if he does, it’ll be Boston and Philly duking it out for years to come. Toronto will still be tough but Lowry is 32 now and will be declining soon. Obviously, we don’t know what LeBron is doing yet so that could change things if, say, they’re able to keep him and trade for a vet with their lotto pick.They tanked and found two gold nuggets in the draft. Colangelo added three shooters this year for Simmons to feed. Not sure you can pencil anyone into the conference finals on a regular basis. Boston and Toronto remain the two best teams until proven otherwise and Indiana is a tough out for anyone.
can't really disagree.They tanked and found two gold nuggets in the draft. Colangelo added three shooters this year for Simmons to feed. Not sure you can pencil anyone into the conference finals on a regular basis. Boston and Toronto remain the two best teams until proven otherwise and Indiana is a tough out for anyone.
And they create matchup problems with Simmons and Embiid. Negative is they can get hurt in the same way when Belinelli and TJ are on the floor.can't really disagree.
I will say they have such a fantastic foundation though because they have two 2 way foundations.
Today embiid was awful offensively but my God he was a force the other end.
To have a primary creator and a center with defensive chops after basically a season of play each is pretty rare.
It's so so so much easy to build around that. Esp with Covington too. You can accommodate a score first guy on a team with 3-4 good defenders. Esp when one is center.
You can plug vets into roles instead of asking them to do things they can't etc. This is really what gives me such hope.
I can see how non-76ers fans must be getting sick of the national media's love of this "perfect" team.Ringer long form article on Saric here; haven't read it yet but posting it here so I can easily get back to it.