All Things Philadelphia 76ers (merged Sixers threads)

[Emmette Bryant]

Joel Embiid is out for the season.  His knee injury is worse than first reported imagine that.

http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/sports/sixers/Sixers-rookie-Joel-Embiid-ruled-out-for-season-NBA-2016-2017.html

[jpotter33]

Joel Embiid is out for the season.  His knee injury is worse than first reported imagine that.

http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/sports/sixers/Sixers-rookie-Joel-Embiid-ruled-out-for-season-NBA-2016-2017.html

Lol

The conspiracy theorist in me kind of thinks this is a stealth tanking ploy, along with Simmons being shut down.

However, knowing how injury prone both of those players have proven to be so far, it's more than likely legitimate.

[Eddie20]

This is fascinating. Plus, it's another year closer to him being off that rookie contract. Oh, the process.

Embiid has been able to play in only 31 games since the Sixers selected him third overall in the 2014 NBA draft.

[BitterJim]

Joel Embiid is out for the season.  His knee injury is worse than first reported imagine that.

http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/sports/sixers/Sixers-rookie-Joel-Embiid-ruled-out-for-season-NBA-2016-2017.html

Wow, that's rough.  It really looks like they'll need to start over, which is absolutely ridiculous given that they started tanking when they traded Jrue Holiday before the 2013 draft (almost 4 years ago).  4 years would be a short time frame for a rebuild, but this looks like 4 years to be back in the exact situation they were in.

Maybe Simmons and/or Embiid will overcome their issues and turn out alright (chances don't look great for Embiid, but Simmons could end up having a similar career to Noel as far as injuries go), but if not then Dario Saric may be their best prospect/player (although you could argue that it's Okafor instead). That's just depressing for a team that went all in to tanking for top talent

[celticsclay]

I think just saying this is all a tank move is a bit much given the 76ers medical staff history (many fans want them fired)

[jdz101]

Greg Oden took 534 days after the day he was drafted to play game 31.

It took Embiid 946 days after his draft day to reach the same number of games.

If he can't get healthy next year, he's officially Oden 2.0

[jdz101]

Why I want no part of Jahlil Okafor....ever

https://twitter.com/bachman_brian21/status/837106315952553984

https://twitter.com/ttrain305/status/837120425725423621

[moiso]

Greg Oden took 534 days after the day he was drafted to play game 31.

It took Embiid 946 days after his draft day to reach the same number of games.

If he can't get healthy next year, he's officially Oden 2.0

He is Oden 2.0.  He has had season ending (or season not even starting) injuries for the past 4 years.  And to think, fairly recently we had a bunch of posters claiming the guy isn't injury prone.  Talk about blind...  People were even claiming he doesn't have a significant injury a week ago, even though his knee became swollen and painful every time he tried to do more than shoot around. 

We always talk about green goggles here, but for a long time a huge portion of this blog was sporting red goggles.  They probably have gone a little bit out of style by now, so it's probably embarrassing to put them on and go out in public.

[PAOBoston]

4 straight seasons now in a row. You can only use bad luck as an excuse for only so long. Back, foot, knee. And the crazy part is they basically babied him all season with resting him every other game, no back to backs, minute restriction. If he had asllctually played a full slate, he would have been done by December.

There comes a point where you call a spade a spade. I'd be wary of hitching my wagon to this guy as a franchise player. He just can't stay healthy.

[Moranis]

4 straight seasons now in a row. You can only use bad luck as an excuse for only so long. Back, foot, knee. And the crazy part is they basically babied him all season with resting him every other game, no back to backs, minute restriction. If he had asllctually played a full slate, he would have been done by December.

There comes a point where you call a spade a spade. I'd be wary of hitching my wagon to this guy as a franchise player. He just can't stay healthy.

or maybe he would have strengthened his knee more and not picked up this injury.  You just don't know on things like that.

[PAOBoston]

4 straight seasons now in a row. You can only use bad luck as an excuse for only so long. Back, foot, knee. And the crazy part is they basically babied him all season with resting him every other game, no back to backs, minute restriction. If he had asllctually played a full slate, he would have been done by December.

There comes a point where you call a spade a spade. I'd be wary of hitching my wagon to this guy as a franchise player. He just can't stay healthy.

or maybe he would have strengthened his knee more and not picked up this injury.  You just don't know on things like that.

Sure. But he hasn't really given any indication that would be the case though.

[Phantom255x]

Why I want no part of Jahlil Okafor....ever

https://twitter.com/bachman_brian21/status/837106315952553984

https://twitter.com/ttrain305/status/837120425725423621

LOL that defense was real Harden-esque 

I mean I critique our bigs a lot but at least they make a bit of an attempt.

Okafor was just inviting the guy to score..

[The One]

Why I want no part of Jahlil Okafor....ever

https://twitter.com/bachman_brian21/status/837106315952553984

https://twitter.com/ttrain305/status/837120425725423621

LOL that defense was real Harden-esque 

I mean I critique our bigs a lot but at least they make a bit of an attempt.

Okafor was just inviting the guy to score..

Come on...give the guy a break...he's saving himself for restricted free agency...

[Phantom255x]

Why I want no part of Jahlil Okafor....ever

https://twitter.com/bachman_brian21/status/837106315952553984

https://twitter.com/ttrain305/status/837120425725423621

LOL that defense was real Harden-esque 

I mean I critique our bigs a lot but at least they make a bit of an attempt.

Okafor was just inviting the guy to score..

Come on...give the guy a break...he's saving himself for restricted free agency...

Philly will probably give him a max contract. #TrustTheProcess

[Moranis]

4 straight seasons now in a row. You can only use bad luck as an excuse for only so long. Back, foot, knee. And the crazy part is they basically babied him all season with resting him every other game, no back to backs, minute restriction. If he had asllctually played a full slate, he would have been done by December.

There comes a point where you call a spade a spade. I'd be wary of hitching my wagon to this guy as a franchise player. He just can't stay healthy.

or maybe he would have strengthened his knee more and not picked up this injury.  You just don't know on things like that.

Sure. But he hasn't really given any indication that would be the case though.

He definitely seems injury prone, but the foot that kept him out for 2 years was the same injury, it just didn't heal right so they did a second operation.  His knee seemed kind of flukey, like Durant's.  Now maybe he is just made of glass like Oden was, or maybe these are just freak things that he will fully recover from and have no real issues going forward.