Sixers star center Joel Embiid suffered a lateral meniscus injury in his left knee and will be held out through the weekend while the team sorts through a treatment plan, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski (Twitter link). There’s still some uncertainty about how team doctors, specialists and Embiid will move forward to treat the injury, but they’ll use the next few days to figure out a plan, Wojnarowski tweets.
Embiid suffered the injury during a Tuesday matchup between the Warriors and Sixers, when Golden State forward Jonathan Kuminga fell on his leg. The injury took place in the fourth quarter and Embiid left the court under his own power.
The seven-time All-Star missed three games early last month due to knee soreness before sitting out matchups against the Nuggets and Trail Blazers on Saturday and Monday, respectively, due to the same issue.
Having won the Most Valuable Player award last season, Embiid has a strong case for MVP again this season. He’s averaging a career-high 35.3 points this season, leading the Sixers to a 29-17 record entering Thursday. In 34 games so far this season, Embiid also maintained averages of 11.3 rebounds, 5.7 assists, 1.1 steals and 1.8. blocks while shooting 53.3% from the field and 36.6% from deep.
It’s unknown exactly how much time Embiid will miss, but he was already ruled out of the Sixers’ Thursday night game against the Jazz, his 13th game missed this season. Players can miss no more than 17 games to be eligible for postseason awards, like MVP.
So the nba fined the sixers over a legit injury. Silver is the worst commissioner ever. The nba would be better without him
I took it as the league being upset that he wasn’t listed as questionable, doubtful, probable, etc. earlier in the day.
Fine was for something else. Team didn’t follow procedures. Often called cheating as other teams want to know who is playing so they prepare correctly.
Other teams have been fined
The inury report isnt so other teams can prepare….its for the gamblers
They got fined for the Denver game which was before this injury. Plus they got fined because they didn’t list him on the report until the last minute. Not even questionable to out, it was nothing listed to out.
The NBA didn’t fine him for an injury. They fined him because the Sixers didn’t have him on the injury report until last minute. The NBA doesn’t actually care about player health and safety if it affects the gambling sponsors like Draft Kings and FanDuels. The funniest part is that the league wants stars to try and play more games, yet in doing so that might mean stuff like this happens where they see until last minute if the player is healthy enough to play. Once again Adam Silver’s NBA is managed with a bunch of ad hoc decisions with no uniform or planned out goals.
If a player is in any way going to be a last minute decision he could at least be listed as probable before being out.
They fined him because they didnt put Embiid on the injury report on time. There are rules where teams have to disclose which players are playing a certain time before the game and they didnt do that.
They didnt fine the Sixers because they thought Embiid was faking an injury.
Everyone that was calling him out in the earlier posts about ducking jokic when they played the nuggets this week keep that same energy.
Uh, this injury occurred after that happened.
No it didn’t. He got hurt missed two games. Came back and by all accounts from the reporters was not right and labored through the game. If you’re call someone out for being wrong make sure they are actually wrong.
“Speaking to reporters after the game, head coach Nick Nurse said Tuesday’s injury was “kind of unrelated to what’s been bothering” Embiid, even though it appeared to affect the same knee. According to Andrews, Nurse added that the 76ers’ medical staff had cleared the reigning MVP to play and Embiid said he was “feeling good.””
You are in fact wrong. Way to out yourself as an idiot on the internet.
Yeah because a professional coach has never lied about an injury ever. He misses two games with a left knee injury and then comes back and from tip is hobbling on his left knee.
Come on read between the lines here. Nurse obviously doesn’t want to say the team allowed embid to play on an injured knee or vise versa embid talked the team into letting him played injured like that.
NFL/NBA coaches lie about injuries and injury reports all the time. Don’t be so gulable and use a quote from a source that obviously has a biased answer.
So the person with a fact-based argument is wrong and instead we should believe a liar. Got it lol
Anybody who actually watched the game could see he was not even 75% healthy.
Rob Williams came back way early and look at him. Embiid is far to good to be risking his future.
Bottom line, Jokic is better. Much better. Please stop comparing them against each other. One is always injured and the other plays and wins.
Embiid is better — joker is reliable
One guy has a Finals MVP and the other hasn’t made it out of the second round. Pretty clear who the better player is.
Ok I get it. Jokic and Embiid played by themselves in the playoffs and their teammates had nothing to do with the results. Sure.
Embiid roasts Jokic every time he plays him. Bottom line is Embiid is better. Jokic is more reliable
Can’t be a better player when the other guy nearly gives you 10 more points on average.
Goodness. Jokic could easily average 10 points more if he wanted to, but he chooses to involve his teammates, make his teammates better, and win more games. (Look at assists, lol) Finally, if Jokic simply took few games off when he’s fatigued, all his averages would be much higher.
“[…]Embiid has a strong case for MVP again this season.”
You can change that to past tense now.
No MVP for Joe L M Bead.
Excited to see Embiid standing in the corner to keep his mvp chances alive. Thanks CJ McCollum for negotiating the 65 game rule! Such a great nbpa president!
I like the rule. Too many stars taking load management days off.
Exactly…. Same people complaining about the games played rule that complain about guys taking games off. Always the leagues fault no matter what, never mind the players are soft and gamed the system that rest helps prevent injuries.
If a guy doesn’t play most of the season, he couldn’t be MVP by definition. Why should part time players win awards?
So the Sixers need to make a move. Folks in the media seem to think some superstar will force their way out in the Summer and the Sixers will have 60M in cap space to just absorb them and give up picks OR this Top FA that will be available. PG13 is the only guy left, and hell reup. Everyone else that might be available thats even worth pursuing, a real difference maker, will reup with their current squad.
So who is that Top-10 or even Top-15 guy that will say “I want out” and the Sixers get him?
Durant? Luka? Trae? Zion? Spider? Himmy Butler? Maybe its Mikal Bridges, but he is not on the level of the aforementioned.
Maybe the Sixers move up in the 24 draft and secure Bronny to land LeBron?
I don’t put much stock into landing this disgruntled star.
Make a move at this deadline, get the best possible squad with these expiring deals.
Murray, Markkanen, Bridges, etc… idk figure it out. Jo is injured again, if he comes back and they make zero improvements, another wasted season.