Sixers MVP candidate Joel Embiid is expected to miss 2-to-3 weeks after an MRI revealed a bone bruise in his left knee, tweets Shams Charania of The Athletic.
Embiid’s MRI revealed no structural damage to his knee and there is a feeling of relief within the Philadelphia organization that the superstar’s injury isn’t worse, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reports.
The soon-to-be 27-year-old suffered the injury on Friday night during the Sixers’ tilt against the Wizards. Embiid hyperextended his left knee after landing awkwardly following a dunk in the third quarter. Embiid stayed down for several minutes before exiting under his own power, albeit with a noticeable limp.
Friday’s contest was Embiid’s first action since before the All-Star break as he – along with teammate Ben Simmons – was forced to sit out the star-studded contest due to contact tracing. Simmons and Embiid saw the same barber who later tested positive for COVID-19 and had to isolate.
While the injury might impact his MVP odds, Embiid has played like one all season for Philadelphia. In 31 games, he is averaging 29.9 PPG, 11.5 RPG, 3.3 APG, 1.4 BPG and is shooting 52.5% from the field.
And while this was inevitable, im sick of people in this city dumping on this team apparently we have no shot to make the finals if we arent the #1 seed. cmon now. We’ve held the #1 spot in the East all year and no one ever celebrated it, but then when we are in danger of losing it the sky is falling. ridiculous.
I respect that observation, especially coming from a Philly fan!
Yea that’s odd, Id be thrilled if I was a 6’er fan this year , things couldn’t have realistically gone better to this point
Doc’s been great, the 2 stars have improved, the role players rolling, and they seem to be pretty good at developing all these late 1st rd picks into rotation players
On top of that, they look good next 12 days to make a move if they want with all their future picks in tow and DG’s expiring 15 mill w/ young assets like Shake, Maxey, ThyBull
Even with a healthy Embiid this team is headed for 2nd round playoff exit. It is very hard to consistently win close playoff games when your primary ball-handler (Ben Simmons) cannot shoot and cannot make free throws.
Who cares what you think?
It don’t matter what I think. We will all be able to watch it unfold ourselves in a couple of months. I like Ben Simmons. However, Ben Simmons is a Regular Season Stud and a Playoff Liability. Facts! Still No Jumper? Facts! Still Can’t Make Free Throws. Facts!
Sounds like someone here can’t handle having the players on their team criticized and their best response is something one would expect from some kid who’s attending middle school.
Wow surprisingly good news. I hated seeing the replay a few hours ago. I was hoping it would be a bone bruise b/c it reminded me of a similar thing happening with Derrick Jones jr either last year or the year before. Hopefully, they’re careful, they take the time to strengthen some of those areas with his ac joint, quads, hamstrings, and ankles, and he comes back healthy for them. Never want to see anyone go down, especially someone in his situation, from what he has dealt with previously, to what he is now, and what he can still be moving forward
Next 18 days
3 games vs East Playoffs teams
6 road games vs West
Spurs
Nuggets
Lakers
Clippers
Warriors
Kings
It’s possible to sink to 5th seed?
If you look at how the Sixers bench played the last two games without both their all-stars, you’d know how dumb your comment sounds.
to be fair, this team had previously struggled without Embiid
The 4 and 5 seeds are pretty far back from the 1-3 seeds. My guess is you don’t watch the sixers much if think they are going to lose all of those games.
The Lebron MVP mafia are pumping fists in delight at this news. Hope Embiid gets well soon.
Is that you bill Simmons??
The changing seasons, taxes, Joel and AD getting injured. These are the things that happen without fail every year.
Bye bye mvp….Jokic’s to lose now
Harden is closer than you think. Better storyline
Whew….man that couldve been worse. I haven’t seen a center dominate like him since shaq. He is slowly turning into a killer. Now with him on the mend its time for Ben to turn it up a notch. Im not worried at all. F*** Brooklyn!
Long time coming. Sad to see the jump he’s made knowing stuff like this will happen multiple times a season and more than likely into the playoffs. Great player but his body can’t keep up
It’s sad he’s gotten injured on a year in which the team is playing awesome and he’s the front runner for MVP but 2/3 weeks isn’t the end of the world and he can still come back and possibly win MVP. Even if he can’t he may come back strong defensively and win DPOY.
However what I will say is the possible positive of this could be that he gets some rest. He’s had a career year so far and for someone who in the past has had injury concerns it’s good that he can rest up and come back strong. I also believe we should still be able to win a lot of games without him. Ben and Tobias are having great seasons. Dwight has done an amazing job in filling in for Embiid and I still think we will continue to roll teams in the east
there is a very high chance this is good. many say you need the 1st seed to make the finals, but regardless if he seriously gets injured or gets injured in the playoffs its absolutly over.
thank God this is not a lot more serious I was watching that game Friday night I saw him go down and my heart was up in my throat.
I don’t know what it is with the entire Philadelphia pro sports scene. for some reason it seems like the Phillies in MLB, the Eagles in NFL, the flyers in NHL, and the 76ers in the NBA are forever getting injured at insane rates. injuries should not be an excuse for losing but at the same time when all four of your professional sports teams are snake bitten as all the Phillies sports teams are you can’t help but to wonder what the hell is going on