2024-02-05 05:13:11
A big blow to Philadelphia: The Sixers announced tonight (between Sunday and Monday) that Joel Embiid, the reigning MVP and who was marked in the first half of the NBA season as the outstanding candidate to repeat winning the award, will undergo meniscus surgery in the coming days.
Following the surgery, Embiid will miss a “significant period of time”, with great doubt as to whether he will be able to return to play this season. At the same time, according to the Sixers’ press release, the team “is not closing the door yet” regarding the possibility of Embiid returning at some point later in the season.
Following the developments, Embiid in any case will not be able to meet the required quota of games and will not be able to win the MVP award of the regular season, even though so far he certainly deserved it. During the season, Embiid recorded a streak of 22 games with 30 or more points, but in the game against Golden State in which he was injured, the streak was interrupted, and since then he has tried to return to the courts without success. So far Embiid has led the NBA with an average of 35.3 points per game.
A frustrating evening, with a worrying ending. Embiid is injured Imagebank GettyImages, Thearon W. Henderson
This is of course a fatal blow for Philadelphia, which is having a hard time without Embiid this season. In 10 of the 14 games that Embiid missed this season, the Sixers lost.
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