11:52am: Embiid has tested positive for COVID-19 and is expected to miss several games, reports ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski (Twitter link).
11:30am: Sixers center Joel Embiid, who was scheduled to be rested for Monday’s game vs. New York, has entered the NBA’s health and safety protocols, reports Shams Charania of The Athletic (Twitter link).
Embiid is the fourth Sixers player to enter the league’s protocols so far this season, joining Tobias Harris, Isaiah Joe, and Matisse Thybulle. If he has tested positive for COVID-19, the All-NBA center will miss at least a handful of games.
While Embiid’s troublesome right knee could perhaps benefit from a week or two of rest, it’s still an unfortunate turn of events for an increasingly short-handed 76ers team. Besides having four players in the health and safety protocols, Philadelphia has been missing Danny Green (hamstring) for the last three games and is playing without All-Star guard Ben Simmons.
Despite all the absences, the Sixers have been the best team in the Eastern Conference so far this season, with an 8-2 record. With Embiid sidelined, the club figures to turn to Andre Drummond as its starting center for the short term.
Not great…are they going to be able to field a squad tonight?
IMO
Embiid is the best player in the nba
Not even the best center. Jokic is. No disrespect to Embiid but Jokic is better.
Better offensively, ok. What about the other half of the game?
Today Vegas odds
76ers vs Knicks
PK
Hawks vs Warriors
Warriors -3.5
John Collins will play
Have a funny feeling we are going to see ALOT of Kurkmaz and Curry, and also don’t don’t surprised if Drummond puts up an easy double double, as the Knicks win by 20..lol
Drummond is going to get 30 rebounds, Curry will hit 10 triples on 10 attempts, and Philly will lose by 20.
Sixers by 8
In the 2022-23 and 24 seasons, Embiid will still say he hasn’t gotten back in shape yet due to covid in 11/21.
I think this actually hurts the Knicks’ chances tonight. Their perimeter defense is broke. So much so, that it might have kept Embid out there shooting. In any event, anything that might result in more 3 pt shots being taken against them isn’t good for the Knicks.
It doesn’t hurt the Knicks dude…
Another one Bites the Dust !!!!! Yeaaah yeea
Yeeeeaahhhaa
Sixers are cursed until they move Ben. We rocking the The Wells Fargo Center tonight.
Seriously we just need a win soooooo
You need a garlic butter bacon burger.
The Knicks stink.
LOL
Don’t tell Al that, he’s just happy the team isn’t a huge joke anymore. At least they’re good enough to have a decent record and make the playoffs. Even though the Knicks aren’t even close to being a championship caliber team.