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The Sixers Won’t Know How Long Joel Embiid is Out Until the Surgery is Performed
By Kyle Pagan
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Everyone in Philly is a Twitter doctor. Joel Embiid could be out four weeks. It could be six weeks. It could also be eight weeks or the entire season. Will Embiid have a leg by Saturday? Tune in to find out! According to Woj, on his podcast, the Sixers aren’t going to know the timeline for Joel Embiid’s injury until they cut him open:
“It was described to me, the door is still very much open for [Joel Embiid] to return this season. There’s no point in guessing whether [Embiid’s recovery time] is four weeks, six weeks, eight weeks; we don’t know, [the #Sixers] don’t know at this point. They’ll know better once…
— Philly Sixers Galaxy (@sixers_galaxy) February 5, 2024
The life of being a Sixers fan is fun and educational! You learn something new about the human body every year! Displaced flap, Thoracic Outlet Syndrome, peanut allergies, a broken orbital bone, and gastroenteritis. Never knew about any of these before The Process. Now with the amount of medical research I’ve done I’m pretty sure I could get into Temple med school.
Shams Charania gave us a little more insight into the injury on Run It Back TV. The Sixers seem to be hopeful he only misses 1-2 months…unless there is a full tear. Then it’ll be likely we don’t see him for the rest of the year:
“I’m told that the hope is that [Joel] Embiid misses one to two months…If a full repair is needed in surgery, that’s going to be a significantly longer recovery time period.”@ShamsCharania updates on Joel Embiid’s injury.
📺: https://t.co/qYBPWhYgh7 pic.twitter.com/qvhjliu6WP— Run It Back (@RunItBackFDTV) February 5, 2024
Fun! One of the most dominant seasons of basketball ruined because no one on the Sixers stood up to Embiid and told him to not play on a random Tuesday game in January. Now we gotta hope Daryl can get someone this week to hold us over and tread water and hope the big man comes back this year.
It’s the hope that kills you.
Kyle writes blog posts and does Man on the Street-style videos all around Philadelphia. He graduated from Temple University (a basketball school) in 2015. contact: k.pagan@sportradar.com