State of Embiid & the Sixers

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00:00Good news is you now get paid to go to Sixers games.

00:04You can sit nine rows from the court for like $12.

00:09Can you really?

00:10Yeah.

00:11Yeah.

00:12Good God.

00:13All right.

00:14So your reaction on the Embiid stuff.

00:16The two reports over the weekend from Shams 176ers and Jewel are consulting doctors and

00:20considering alternative options on his injured knee.

00:23Sources tell ESPN sides have hoped for progress in Embiid's body, but his efforts to play

00:29in current treatment, including injections, have not provided any improvement.

00:33Second tweet from Shams.

00:34This was last night.

00:35He said Embiid has scored 15 or fewer points in consecutive games for the first time in

00:40almost four years and again experienced swelling in his left knee after Saturday's home loss

00:45to the Brooklyn Nets, sources said.

00:47Let's listen to Nick Nurse.

00:48You know, Nick Nurse talked after Saturday's game.

00:51Obviously, Jewel didn't play the fourth quarter.

00:53A lot of people saw it as a benching.

00:55I saw it not quite.

00:56I mean, look, it might have been.

00:57But I viewed it more like they just knew and Nick Nurse knew that Jewel was mercy.

01:00Yeah, I thought it was mercy, too.

01:01He couldn't answer the bell.

01:02Couldn't do it.

01:03It was amazing to me how much he got reported as a pure benching.

01:06Like, I don't know about that.

01:09Here's Nick Nurse Saturday after Embiid had not played the second, the fourth quarter.

01:15This was in some ways a compliment, but really, really reveals that it's just diminishing

01:21returns because he's trying his best out there.

01:25He might not have tried his best in all the rehabs through the years, but trying his best

01:28while out there.

01:29Here's Nick Nurse Saturday night.

01:30He's giving us what he can.

01:31Right?

01:32I don't, you know, obviously he doesn't feel like he's not himself.

01:35We all know that.

01:36He's not certainly the guy that we're used to seeing play at a super high level.

01:40But I commend him for giving us what he can.

01:43What a mess.

01:44What a mess.

01:45I mean, if that's the best he can give, then that's the best he can give, which means shut

01:47him down.

01:48And this, this one.

01:49End the season.

01:50The charade.

01:51Yeah.

01:52Try to get the draft pick.

01:53I mean, if the Sixers draft pick is top six protected, they currently have the sixth worst

01:57record in basketball.

01:58They're like right on that line.

01:59So try to keep the pick because you're not going anywhere.

02:02I mean, if anything, maybe you get, you know, into the top eight, you know, grouping and

02:05you lose in the first round.

02:07I mean, there's no way Joel's going to be able to play in late April, you know, four

02:10games in eight days.

02:12There's no way.

02:13And play well.

02:14Think about that.

02:15There's no way.

02:16There's no way.

02:17Think about that.

02:18This, this game on Saturday.

02:19Think about the, the rest that, think about the, the, the, the opportunity he had to just

02:23gather himself prior.

02:26And it looked the way that it looks.

02:27It's awful.

02:28So we'll take your reaction on the Sixers stuff.

02:31And you know, I know a lot of people are moving toward tanking, which I am like, okay, get

02:35back to that.

02:36But I'm also, I don't want to lose sight of the disgust factor.

02:38Could you even, I don't want to just let them off the hook and say, think about him trying

02:42to go out there like in a, in a series, think about how absurd that would be.

02:48It's just impossible.

02:49Can't do it.

02:50Like we have a star who is incapable of getting out there, I don't know, a couple of times

02:55a week.

02:56Guys, it is possible.

02:57He's played 19 games or something.

02:59Is that what it is?

03:00Something like that.

03:01We do every year, we do our top 10 players in Philadelphia sports and it is possible

03:04he may never again be a top 10 player in Philly sports.

03:07He may just not be able to be that anymore.

03:10He may not.

03:11All right.

03:12Your thoughts on.

03:13That's the most ability of every, every athlete that we're talking about.

03:18You can't harness it anymore.

03:19You can't harness it.

03:20Right.

03:21What an incredible shame.

03:22It's a tragedy.

03:23It is a tragedy, but it may also be a Greek tragedy that he created it.

03:26Yeah.

03:27So, you know, it may not be, it may just be bad luck, but it may be.

03:29A tragedy based in hubris?

03:31Maybe.

03:32Yeah.

03:33No, hubris was, was a big part of the Greek tragedy thing.

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