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Sure Sounds Like the Sixers are Close to Shutting Down Joel Embiid
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Shams on a Sunday evening:
Embiid has scored 15 or fewer points in consecutive games for the first time in almost four years, and again experienced swelling in his left knee after Saturday’s home loss to the Brooklyn Nets, sources said.
— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) February 23, 2025
Here’s an alternative option: shut him down for the season, get the surgery done, if it even exists, and give him the next seven months to recover. Then you give it one more go and see if he can be a semblance of the player he was a few years ago. If not, then it’s over and we move on to the next era of Philadelphia 76ers basketball. It’s time to punt on this season. This is the way.
Kevin has been writing about Philadelphia sports since 2009. He spent seven years in the CBS 3 sports department and started with the Union during the team's 2010 inaugural season. He went to the academic powerhouses of Boyertown High School and West Virginia University. email - k.kinkead@sportradar.com