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Tuesday, July 21, 2015

No one is quite sure what is going on with Joel Embiid

The Joel Embiid saga in Philadelphia continues to be an interesting one.

At this point in the process - a full 13 months since the Sixers selected Embiid with the 3rd overall pick in the 2014 NBA Draft - no one seems quite sure what exactly is going on with the seven footer, and there is even less certainty about when we may actually see him out on the court.

At the beginning of last week, after several days of speculation and reports, the Sixers announced that Joel would be undergoing surgery on his troublesome right foot, likely within 7-10 days. He was by all accounts ruled out for the entirety of the 2015-16; his second straight full season on the shelf. That timeline has passed, and there is still no news about a surgery.


The biggest Embiid news of the week came from a report via The Daily News' Bob Cooney, who claimed that sources told him that Embiid re-broke the navicular bone in his right foot. That is certainly more than the team revealed, and would seemingly be a pretty big deal if true. This report begs the question: How did he re-break it?

Like most things, the Sixers are keeping all of this under tight wrap. The organization has even taken some heat for sharing so little information. Media members have not been able to speak to Embiid himself since a conference call shortly after his selection by the Sixers last June. By rule, injured players do not have to speak to media members. His Instargam account however has a couple recent posts that don't necessarily mesh with the prospect of sitting another season.
A photo posted by Joel Hans Embiid (@joelembiid) on
Joel's positivity is promising, but the caption 'Only a couple weeks away' seems strange, since he is many, many weeks away from being able to suit up for the Sixers. What happened since that post that has altered the course of Joel's return?

There are a whole lot of questions circling around Embiid right now, and the Sixers aren't providing a whole lot of answers. The only thing that seems to be certain is that we shouldn't expect to see Embiid out on the court anytime soon. 

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