The star large man is reportedly consulting medical doctors and contemplating various choices for his injured knee, per ESPN’s Shams Charania. Each side have hoped for progress within the seven-footer’s physique as he is undergone therapies because the season rolls on, however no such enchancment has occurred.
Embiid, a two-time NBA scoring champ and former league MVP, has performed in simply 19 of Philadelphia’s 56 video games this season. He is averaged 23.8 factors, 8.2 rebounds and 4.5 assists in that span.
That is after he missed all however 39 video games final 12 months on account of a torn meniscus. The 30-year-old has missed 267 common season video games all through his nine-year profession, out there 62.8 per cent of the time.
Embiid has been hobbled by accidents all season and was sluggish to stand up late within the third quarter of Saturday’s loss to the Brooklyn Nets when he misplaced the ball and hit the court docket. Embiid stated earlier this week that he wanted to “repair the issue” in his left knee to return to his dominant All-Star type.
“The best way I used to be taking part in a 12 months in the past is just not the best way I’m taking part in proper now,” Embiid stated Thursday after the 76ers misplaced to Boston. “I in all probability want to repair the issue, after which I’ll be again at that degree. Nevertheless it’s laborious to have belief if you’re not your self.”
The seven-time All-Star scored simply 14 factors in 31 minutes on Saturday, missed all six three-point makes an attempt and was a bystander within the fourth when the 76ers rallied from 17 right down to take the lead late till they have been completed off by Nic Claxton’s winner on the horn.
Coach Nick Nurse stated he benched Embiid within the fourth just because the lineup on the court docket — which included large man Guerschon Yabusele — was taking part in effectively within the quarter. In the meantime, Embiid, who signed a 3-year, $193-million contract extension in September, declined to remark.
“He is giving us what he can. He is not himself, everyone knows that,” Nurse stated. “He is not definitely the man we’re used to seeing play at a super-high degree. I commend him for giving us what he can.”
The 76ers have struggled as an entire this season, now 20-36 and twelfth within the Jap Convention. Regardless of making the most important transfer of the low season, signing nine-time All-Star Paul George, it hasn’t led to success on the court docket but.
— with information from the Related Press
