After lacking two video games towards the Nuggets and Blazers with knee soreness, Joel Embiid was again within the lineup for the Philadelphia 76ers on Tuesday night time as they took on the Warriors in San Francisco, however the reigning MVP didn’t look fairly proper for a lot of the night time.
Embiid was not seeking to assault smaller defenders in the identical manner he typically is, and didn’t appear to be shifting notably nicely because the Sixers discovered themselves trailing for a lot of the night time. Because the fourth quarter wound down, the Warriors had taken full management of the sport with a double digit lead when catastrophe struck for the Sixers. Embiid obtained the ball poked away by Jonathan Kuminga serving to down on him as he backed down Draymond Inexperienced, and as gamers scrambled for the free ball, Kuminga jumped to safe it and landed on Embiid’s outstretched left leg, pushing his knee backwards in direction of the bottom.
Embiid instantly grasped at his knee in important ache, rolling on the court docket earlier than finally getting up and limping to the locker room. The hope for the Sixers, their followers, and the league as an entire is that it was extra scary than something for Embiid, however there’ll additional testing coming for the Sixers star heart to find out the severity of the harm. For now, everybody will hope it wasn’t particularly severe and wasn’t one thing that can maintain him out long-term and threaten to finish his season.
