Joel Embiid Likely Out for the Season, Will Have Second Surgery

[Forza Juventus]

I feel bad for Embiid. Hopefully he gets healthy some day. I don't understand why people criticize Philly for picking him, he was clearly the right pick at the time at #3.

He was the right pick, although it did come with it's risk. The Sixers were willing to roll the dice after he had two different stress fractures, in just a few months, and they lost.

I do feel bad for Embiid. The kid had a bright, bright future. "Had" being the optimal word though. These type of injuries are devastating.

I do not feel for Hinkie, the Sixers organization, or their fans, which includes LarBrd33. They put out an inferior product and despite his many fans, Hinkie has set his franchise back years with a few questionable decisions that don't even include Embiid.

* Traded Thaddeus Young for Luc Mbah a Moute, Alexey Shved and Heat '16 1st-rounder (which at best is a mid rd pick)

* Traded Carter-Williams, who was cost controlled, for Lakers 2016 1st rd pick (the Lakers are improved and the draft is said to be weaker)

* Drafted Saric even though he's not projected to play for a few years and by the time he does come over he might no longer be under the rookie scale contract

I already said I don't feel bad for hinke. Why the hell would I feel bad for him?

[LarBrd33]

I guess it's a good thing I traded Embiid in my fantasy league.   :/   I was worried that getting Damian Lillard, Kobe Bryant and Brook Lopez for him might not have been enough. 

I was wrong.  I'll leave up the crow-eating image as my scarlet letter of shame.   But look, nothing I had read from the team suggested he was actually going to have a second surgery.   Nothing coming from Embiid, the CEO, Hinkie, Bill Self, etc pointed this to being the "most likely" scenario.  They frequently said surgery wasn't being ruled out, but it mostly just seemed like he was a percentage healed that wasn't 100%.    Both of the linked articles do a poor job of explaining what actually is going on.  DOes anyone have a better one?  I tried to find it, but this thread is mostly just 5 pages about me... and rightfully so.  Priorities, baby. 

[colincb]

I'm not riled up at least, I've been laughing reading these posts just like I laugh reading Lar's posts in this forum.  I think the man's avatar make his trolling intentions and aims clear.

Unfortunately, Andy Kaufman's shtick got tiresome after awhile.

http://www.teachertube.com/video/andy-kaufman-reads-gatsby-167287

I liked his work, but he ventured too much into attention-whorrdom.

[Eddie20]

Well then... based on this news, I've come to the conclusion that Joel Embiid will probably be having a second surgery.   I stand corrected.   



Enjoy it fellas, you earned this...

LOL @ PHILLY  EMBIID  LARBRD33

TP, respect.

Awesome. Good job. As long as you don't compensate by saying the Sixers STILL have 3 of the top 6 big men prospects in the league.

Noel. Okafor. Embiid. Aldemir.

[Snakehead]

LOL @ PHILLY  EMBIID  LARBRD33

hahah at your avatar.  TP.

[LarBrd33]

I'm beside myself.  Someone please tell Philly that I'm rescinding my trade offer of Marcus Smart, Terry Rozier, RJ Hunter, Kelly Olynyk, 15 first rounders and my first born child for Joel Embiid.    Deal's off... LarBrd33 changed his mind.   Smaht's gonna be a stah, baby.

[KeepRondo]

I feel bad for Embiid. Hopefully he gets healthy some day. I don't understand why people criticize Philly for picking him, he was clearly the right pick at the time at #3. Also **** anyone gleefully laughing at Embiid's injuries. This has nothing to do with Hinke or his at times delusional supporters. Again, the pick made perfect sense. And now it looks like the Okafor pick also made sense. Again, they have always drafted the best player available which is what a lot of people here praised Ainge for doing when he forced it and took Rozier. I don't totally agree with either team's strategy but they have been pretty similar.

You killed your message with your delivery dude. Chill out with the F people rant.

[Eddie20]

I'm beside myself.  Someone please tell Philly that I'm rescinding my trade offer of Marcus Smart, Terry Rozier, RJ Hunter, Kelly Olynyk, 15 first rounders and my first born child for Joel Embiid.    Deal's off... LarBrd33 changed his mind.   Smaht's gonna be a stah, baby.

Yeah, the 15 years of NBA, if not total global, domination by Embiid needs to be put on pause.

[Forza Juventus]

I feel bad for Embiid. Hopefully he gets healthy some day. I don't understand why people criticize Philly for picking him, he was clearly the right pick at the time at #3. Also **** anyone gleefully laughing at Embiid's injuries. This has nothing to do with Hinke or his at times delusional supporters. Again, the pick made perfect sense. And now it looks like the Okafor pick also made sense. Again, they have always drafted the best player available which is what a lot of people here praised Ainge for doing when he forced it and took Rozier. I don't totally agree with either team's strategy but they have been pretty similar.

You killed your message with your delivery dude. Chill out with the F people rant.

Sorry I'm not as used to this forum as much. I'm also on a soccer forum where we talk like that all the tine

[Moranis]

I feel bad for Embiid. Hopefully he gets healthy some day. I don't understand why people criticize Philly for picking him, he was clearly the right pick at the time at #3.

He was the right pick, although it did come with it's risk. The Sixers were willing to roll the dice after he had two different stress fractures, in just a few months, and they lost.

I do feel bad for Embiid. The kid had a bright, bright future. "Had" being the optimal word though. These type of injuries are devastating.

I do not feel for Hinkie, the Sixers organization, or their fans, which includes LarBrd33. They put out an inferior product and despite his many fans, Hinkie has set his franchise back years with a few questionable decisions that don't even include Embiid.

* Traded Thaddeus Young for Luc Mbah a Moute, Alexey Shved and Heat '16 1st-rounder (which at best is a mid rd pick)

* Traded Carter-Williams, who was cost controlled, for Lakers 2016 1st rd pick (the Lakers are improved and the draft is said to be weaker)

* Drafted Saric even though he's not projected to play for a few years and by the time he does come over he might no longer be under the rookie scale contract

Thad Young.  Seriously.  A guy that should never be starting on a good team has you all riled up.  And that Lakers pick was almost turned over this year for a guy that seems like an efficient volume scorer. 

The Sixers have tanked sure, but they haven't been the worst team in either of the last two seasons and the team that did finish in last year and won the first pick, also clearly tanked.  I mean they traded a 26/15 PF just entering his prime for a terrible #1 and an unproven rookie.  They then traded that same Thad Young for the sentiment of Kevin Garnett (who let's face it adds absolutely nothing on the court for a winning team, though is a good guy to have around a young tanking team).  That same Minnesota that also unloaded quality veterans like Corey Brewer.

Knicks clear and utter tank job.  Probably worse than the Sixers.  The Lakers went full on tank mode.

I don't get why teams like the Wolves, Knicks, and Lakers get a pass on tanking while everyone bemoans the Sixers.  And some of those teams tanked a lot harder than the Sixers did.

[LarBrd33]

I'm beside myself.  Someone please tell Philly that I'm rescinding my trade offer of Marcus Smart, Terry Rozier, RJ Hunter, Kelly Olynyk, 15 first rounders and my first born child for Joel Embiid.    Deal's off... LarBrd33 changed his mind.   Smaht's gonna be a stah, baby.

Yeah, the 15 years of NBA, if not total global, domination by Embiid needs to be put on pause.

Yeah.  It looks like it's only going to be 14 years.  Nice!  We got ourselves a window, Eddie!  Let's go for broke this season before Embiid shows up.

[sahara]

I will be very sad if we don´t ever get to see Embiid play. Kid has crazy talent.

[colincb]

Bobby Marks ?@BobbyMarks42 3h3 hours ago

From a contract standpoint. PHI has now until the end of October to pick the option up for Embiid's 2016-17 contract.

Have to think they do, but if they don't... Oden 2.0.

[Endless Paradise]

I don't get why teams like the Wolves, Knicks, and Lakers get a pass on tanking while everyone bemoans the Sixers.  And some of those teams tanked a lot harder than the Sixers did.

Because they tank like this while Philly tanks like that.

[LarBrd33]

I will be very sad if we don´t ever get to see Embiid play. Kid has crazy talent.

I'm still trying to find some information on what exactly his second surgery entails.  It's rather strange, because everything I read suggested that he hadn't re-injured anything.  He was feeling 100%.  Everything seemed to suggest it had to do with the tissue around the bone not looking fully filled in yet.   So what is this surgery?   If he didn't re-break it... are there spider cracks or something?   Did they decide that re-breaking it clinically gives him the best shot of eventually being 100%?   Is it even the same kind of surgery or is it something supplementary to resolve something less serious?

I feel bad for the kid.  As a fan of basketball, I just want to see what Embiid can do out there.   Based on what I read leading up to today, they wanted to do whatever would give Embiid the best probable shot of playing 100% healthy long-term.   That organization is all about playing the odds.   So if they decided that surgery was the best option here, I guess that means it's Embiid's best shot to play long term.   Looks like Philly will be entering phase 3 of their tank.