embiid suffers foot injury

[Rondo9]

There's speculation that his foot may be broken......

[j804]

@DraftExpress
Last year 7-footer Alex Len went #5 despite having a foot/ankle injury which required multiple surgeries. I don't think Embiid slips too far

[gpap]

With this guy's injury history, I'd rather draft Billy Joel.

[TwinTower14]

@DraftExpress
Last year 7-footer Alex Len went #5 despite having a foot/ankle injury which required multiple surgeries. I don't think Embiid slips too far

Last year's draft was terrible....I can easily see Smart, Vonleh, Gordon etc....moving ahead of Embiid now

[Clench123]

I won't roll the dice on this guy.  We take the risk, then we lose Love, which automatically rule out the potential of signing another big time player in Melo or Lebron.  Rondo leaves and then we'd be stuck in no man's land.  Initial gut instinct is usually the right one.  We roll the dice and all the initial plans is gone.  It's going to be more hurtful if he doesn't pan out because of injury.  There is a lot at stake here if we take him at #6.

[celticsfan8591]

If he somehow falls to us, we'd be idiots to not take him.  He's a potential franchise player, you don't pass that up at 6.  Just take him, sit him out a year and let him heal properly and build up some muscle, get another high pick next year, and we'll have a great young team.  Sure, there's some risk, but you don't become the best in a 30 team league by playing it safe.

[moiso]

With this guy's injury history, I'd rather draft Billy Joel.

He gets to play one on one with a piano instead of a chair in the workouts.

[moiso]

Get him Danny. Its just a broken foot.

Exactly.

Who says you need your feet to play basketball?

broke bones heal. Put him in the Boston hospitals for an entire year and let him come back reborn

  That's a long hospital stay for something that requires outpatient surgery!

[NorthernLightning]

Man, everybody keeps saying we can't win a championship without a top 10 player, and yet few want to take a chance on Embiid.

But you don't mind trading half our assets and paying Kevin Love 4x the salary of Embiid, who actually plays a position we really need help at.

Love played 18 games two years ago, and 55 the year before that. And he missed another 22 games two years before that.

http://basketball.realgm.com/player/Kevin-Love/Summary/760

[CelticSooner]

If it's between Embiid and Love on draft night put me int he Embiid camp. Love is the proven player but I just love Embiid's upside. Take your chances with another mediocre season and see if you can make a splash next year. You still have the war chest of draft picks to do so.

[Rondo9]

Man, everybody keeps saying we can't win a championship without a top 10 player, and yet few want to take a chance on Embiid.

But you don't mind trading half our assets and paying Kevin Love 4x the salary of Embiid, who actually plays a position we really need help at.

Love played 18 games two years ago, and 55 the year before that. And he missed another 22 games two years before that.

http://basketball.realgm.com/player/Kevin-Love/Summary/760

I like Embiid and would love it if the Celtics drafted him. But I still prefer Love since he's a proven All-Star.

[NorthernLightning]

If we could just draft Kevin Love and pay him 4 million a year I'd probably take Love, but that is not the equation by any means.

And yes, Embiid could be the better player of the two in three years, if you don't rely only on fantasy league stats.

[saltlover]

Man, everybody keeps saying we can't win a championship without a top 10 player, and yet few want to take a chance on Embiid.

But you don't mind trading half our assets and paying Kevin Love 4x the salary of Embiid, who actually plays a position we really need help at.

Love played 18 games two years ago, and 55 the year before that. And he missed another 22 games two years before that.

http://basketball.realgm.com/player/Kevin-Love/Summary/760

I don't know where to begin.

I'll start with two years ago, when he played only 55 games.  There were only 66 games that year, so he played a lot.  There were also back-to-back-to-backs -- a lot of players missed games.  He was second in the league in minutes-per-game.  Your durability talk is flat-out nonsense.

Most NBA players miss games here or there, especially bigs.  Basketball is really tough on the body -- playing in 80% of games is pretty good for a big, especially considering his team was never in contention.  He had one major injury where he broke his hand.  He came back from that the following season, last year, and had his best year.  It's fine you don't want Love -- just don't make up reasons that have little grounding in reality.

SMH

[NorthernLightning]

He played 18 games two years ago. And didn't he break his hand doing push ups?

[moiso]

The thing that scares me is not only that Embiid is so young, but also that he is so light in terms of weight.  In a few years his foot and back will be carrying around many more pounds of weight.  If those parts can't support him at his current weight, it could be nasty when he fills out.