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The roundup:

Joel Embiid dancing at Meek Mill.

 

The Embiid takes are here!

 

Embiid has a torn meniscus.

 

Where is Jah going?

 

Bryan Colangelo was supposed to turn Sam Hinkie and the Sixers’ secrecy into transparency. How’s that going? From Jake Pavorsky:

Colangelo has been out of sight for most of the season, but met with reporters right before tip-off on Saturday to announce that an MRI taken on Embiid’s bone bruise after the Trail Blazers game also revealed he had a “very minor” tear of his meniscus. This appearance only came after Derek Bodner scooped the team on the injury, forcing their hand…

Allowing Embiid to play on a torn meniscus is a terrible look to begin with, but opting to hide that information from the people you promised to be completely honest with just 10 months ago is insulting.

Information like that will never be able to be kept quiet forever, especially when a player the team has listed as day-to-day will end up missing nearly three weeks. Fans and media members aren’t stupid, and eventually they’ll demand the clarity they deserve on a player who demands coverage.

And Bob Cooney:

At times, it seems the players have no idea when they are going to get the nod. Embiid said at a practice recently that he was ready to play 40 minutes a night. That he felt great. Maybe he did. And maybe the team just wanted to be ultracautious with a meniscus tear. If so, it would have been nice to know.

If all involved in the Sixers organization truly believe in The Process moving forward, then being forthcoming about injuries and timelines and MRIs shouldn’t be a problem. If fans get disgruntled because an injury has occurred, that’s not the team’s problem. Injuries happen.

But if the uproar of fans is due to secrecy and half-truths, especially when it directly relates to them spending hard-earned money, that falls directly on the Sixers.

 

Jahlil Okafor didn’t travel with the team yesterday, so the Sixers at least aren’t gonna make him sit on the bench as they try to trade him.

 

Jimmy Kempski reports the Eagles will likely trade Mychal Kendricks:

According to a source, the Philadelphia Eagles are willing to move on from Mychal Kendricks this offseason, and it is anticipated that teams around the league will have interest in acquiring Kendricks via a trade.

Kendricks will count for $6,600,000 against the salary cap in 2017, $1,800,000 of which the Eagles would save if they released or traded him. Kendricks would count for $4,800,000 in dead money. As PhillyVoice reported a few weeks ago, the Eagles are expected to free up significant cap space this offseason.

Kendricks will reportedly… avoid 95 at all costs on his way out of town.

 

CBS did their first-ever early bracket reveal, and sure enough, Villanova is the number one overall seed.

 

Sure, why not?

 

Here’s an article about how the non-profit Lenfest Institute for Journalism, which now operates the Inquirer, Daily News and Philly.com, is spending its money to learn how to make #online #journalism:

Two foundations intend to spend a combined $4.8 million to find ways to speed the online transformation of the Inquirer and other news organizations around the country, officials said Monday.

The joint investment by the Knight Foundation and the Philadelphia-based Lenfest Institute for Journalism aims to help newspapers accelerate their shift from print to digital, to reach new audiences, and to better engage readers and communities.

More than a dozen news agencies are expected to benefit.

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“Our mission is really about sustaining great local journalism,” said the Lenfest Institute’s executive director, Jim Friedlich. “The need for a strong and independent local press has been top-of-mind since the founding of the institute, but never more so than now. … Fake news and other forms of misinformation will fill a void if independent, legitimate journalism lacks the resources to do its job.”

Stan Wischnowski, PMN’s senior vice president and executive editor, said the collaboration “keeps the Inquirer, Daily News, and Philly.com at the national forefront of regional metros exploring the best paths forward at this important time for our industry.”

It comes as big national newspapers, such as the New York Times, see new paths to long-term profitability while many metro dailies struggle.

JFC. You want to know why the New York Times is doing well – NOT FAILING! – while other outlets are struggling? Just compare the home pages of the NYT and Philly.com– one has real, actual news, and the other has mostly clickbait bullshit, weather, hacky columnists, and a news partnership with Comcast:

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Even the NYT’s Grammy coverage is impressive.

Two Ivory Tower think tanks spending $4.8 million to figure out online journalism is part of the problem. It’s not that fucking hard. Old-school news outlets are so set in their ways that they can’t see the forest through the trees that are websites, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, and podcasts. Make good content, tailor it to each of those outlets, and find unique ways to monetize it. The latter is the hard part. The former just requires well-staffed and funded news outlets to divert their efforts to places where readers spend their time. The sooner these outlets realize that the process of printing actual papers is holding them back, the quicker they’ll be positioned for the future. Spending millions on think tanks is the exact opposite of what is successful in media today– lean and mean, organic and authentic. Putting a bunch of PhDs in a room and expecting that they figure it out is, largely, a waste of money.

 

Meanwhile, Philly Mag – which just let go of its Eagles and Sixers writers, who generated some of the site’s most popular content – has literally decided that sex sells:

 

Anyone else still want to argue that trading MCW was essentially committing fraud?

 

History will not remember this guy kindly– White House advisor Stephen Miller:

He was on all the morning shows yesterday and genuinely came across as a Nazi propagandist. If you were casting yet another movie about Hitler and his minions, Miller could play just about any one of them. His appearance would’ve been scary if his unprepared cuck-ness didn’t instantly make you wonder who would play him on SNL. Incredibly, Miller may be the most spoof-able Trump mouthpiece, which is a dubious distinction. If I had to place bets on the most likely administration officials to literally be convicted of crimes against humanity, Miller would be at the top of the list. Well done, guy!

Nope!

Meanwhile, Trump learned of North Korea’s ballistic missile test-fire shortly before this photo was taken:

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Here’s what happened next:

The launch, which wasn’t expected, presented Trump with one of the first breaking national security incidents of his presidency. It also noisily disrupted what was meant to be an easygoing weekend of high-level male bonding with the more sobering aspects of global diplomacy.

Sitting alongside Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, with whom he’d spent most of the day golfing, Trump took the call on a mobile phone at his table, which was set squarely in the middle of the private club’s dining area.

As Mar-a-Lago’s wealthy members looked on from their tables, and with a keyboard player crooning in the background, Trump and Abe’s evening meal quickly morphed into a strategy session, the decision-making on full view to fellow diners, who described it in detail to CNN.

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Trump’s National Security Adviser Michael Flynn and chief strategist Steve Bannon left their seats to huddle closer to Trump as documents were produced and phone calls were placed to officials in Washington and Tokyo.

The patio was lit only with candles and moonlight, so aides used the camera lights on their phones to help the stone-faced Trump and Abe read through the documents.

Even as a flurry of advisers and translators descended upon the table carrying papers and phones for their bosses to consult, dinner itself proceeded apace. Waiters cleared the wedge salads and brought along the main course as Trump and Abe continued consulting with aides.

Just like the Situation Room.

That was before or after Trump stopped by to congratulate his longtime customers on their wedding and comment on their photo op with him and the Prime Minister of Japan:

 

Derp:

 

The NBA needs the hockey assist:

 

Beau Allen found himself a crew:

 

Pitchers and catchers report for the Phillies today for the first time without a member of the 2008 World Series team.

 

Chase Utley reached a one-year deal with the Dodgers.

 

Among others, the Phillies will have four players on this year’s World Baseball Classic Venezuela team.

 

And they have four prospects in Baseball America’s top 100.

 

Podcast:

Airing of Grievances with Josh Innes:

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The Stepover Episode 24– emergency Embiid knee and Okafor trade edition:

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