Perhaps they are in denial, but the consensus amongst Philly fans seems to be that this is old/minor news. There's no pain. There is no reinjury. There's no announcement yet of any surgery. Just that it hasn't healed the way they want. The timing of it is peculiar.
They seem to think this has to do with DeAngelo Russell. He cancelled his workout with Philly and it lead to wild speculation. Russell has been widely believed to be Philly's target... but the Knicks are basically in "Russell or bust" mode since Mudiay is a poor fit for the triangle. The speculation is that perhaps the Knicks have worked out a deal with the Lakers where the Lakers will take Russell ahead of Philly and send him to the Knicks... and since Philly has two franchise bigs already, they expect that Philly will be forced to take Mudiay and let Okafor fall. They seem to be speculating that this news about Embiid is coming out to give the illusion that Philly is comfortable taking a big... and perhaps dissuade the Lakers from taking Russell for The Knicks.
Sounds cray... we'll see what happens.
They're definitely in denial. It's not good, particularly if it indicates he's a slow healer long term. I'd say this is a major red flag, whereas I think Embiid's weight and the walking boot incident from earlier were much ado about nothing.
But until we see what the outcome is the chicken littles are overreacting as well.
He didn't get hurt or experience any pain from what I understand. It was just something they noticed in a regular check up on it. Hard to say how serious it is without the particulars.
They certainly are in denial. If it's not healing properly then that could lead to yet another surgery where yet another screw is put in.
I don't even think the Sixers or most their fans are in denial, it's just LB33 and a few unreasonable Sixers fans.
Overall it's a terrible sign for a guy who hasn't played in over a year and still is not healthy and may not be able to play in summer league and training camp either. He hasn't played nearly as much basketball as most guys his age and his body is already breaking down. I don't see him holding up over 82 game seasons for very long imo.
There's nothing to be in denial over. Everything in the report is specifically unspecific.
No pain. No re-injury. Just that they are looking at the results and it's not as healed as they hope. So what does that even mean? It doesn't mean that there is something new wrong. Whatever showed up in that CT Scan probably showed up in all the other CT Scans. This likely just means they need to pull back on some of Embiid's activity and take a cautious approach so not to risk reinjuring it.
And the timing of this in conjunction with all the other draft-related reports coming out about Philly, LA and New york is fairly interesting. I still say Russell is the PHilly target.
They had a report like this in March and they stuck Embiid in a walking boot for a week. I understand that people see Embiid and can't shake the vision of Greg Oden, but until we see something about surgery or a timetable, It seems too early to jump to conclusions here. Even in Woj's report:
After weeks of rigorous workouts, Embiid had not felt pain in the foot, but a recent CT scan revealed an issue in the healing process, sources said. Philadelphia is consulting with doctors on how to best proceed, and it's still premature to speculate on the possibility of another surgical procedure
We'll see what happens. Still several months until the season starts.
FWIW, even with "report", I'd still give up Marcus Smart, #16 and #26 for Embiid. I think Embiid has the potential to be a franchise player.
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