2015 Philadelphia 76ers Off Season Thread

[hunt]

joel didn't "re-inure" anything...and the foot isn't bothering him. but it didn't heal properly when they examined him & that's the concern.  do you risk further injury by letting the guy play with a foot that didn't heal properly...or do you have him get another surgery to repair it and hope it heals properly this time.

i think that's the issue.

[MDS]

Hinkie: We're not sure what [best course of action] is for Joel Embiid

#trusttheprocess

[smeags]

Hinkie: We're not sure what [best course of action] is for Joel Embiid

#trusttheprocess

so hinkie can't just wiggle his nose and poof, the foot's better ?

[ice grillin you]

joel didn't "re-inure" anything...and the foot isn't bothering him. but it didn't heal properly when they examined him & that's the concern.  do you risk further injury by letting the guy play with a foot that didn't heal properly...or do you have him get another surgery to repair it and hope it heals properly this time.

i think that's the issue.

pretty much....its what the navicular injury entails....think its healed...try and play....its not healed...try another surgery...rinse wash repeat....announce retirement

[smeags]

watch me make this 1st round pick disappear - poof.


himkie magic

[MDS]

covering the presser tomorrow

gonna ask jah if hes still confident even though "igy didnt want him"

[ice grillin you]

update day....sorta

General Manager Sam Hinkie addressed Embiid's health during his post-draft press conference today. While Hinkie was not able to provide much certainty on the big man's future — they're still in the process of getting opinions from various medical professionals around the world — Hinkie did say he did not expect Embiid to participate in summer league.

"I don't see how he'd play in summer league. [Those are] not the kind of conversations we've been having," Hinkie said.

Hinkie did say that Embiid was not feeling any pain or discomfort in his foot.

"He feels really good. It's part of what makes this confusing for him, because he feels great," Hinkie said. "In fact, he says 'I can't believe how good I feel. And I've felt great for a while.'

"It seems hard to believe something could be wrong," Hinkie concluded.

But something is wrong. Exactly what that is, however, they're not sure.

Hinkie described a diligent regiment of checkups and CT scans the Sixers have been putting Embiid through in order to help map out a roadmap for Embiid's recovery.

"The nature of Navicular injuries, and the nature of stress fractures, is you see these slow improvements, and then you slow it down. And you load it, and then you slightly unload it," Hinkie described. "Any time you get any sort of negative feedback you unload, and you slow down and re-assess.

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"As part of that, we had a proactive set of regular MRI's that we would give him. Each of those we would send out to a variety of doctors, both internally and externally, and say 'What do you think at this checkpoint?'," Hinkie described. "When we would find enough consensus we would move to the next stage."

Through March, everything seemed to be going fine for Embiid's recovery.

"In March he had a CT scan that looked right on schedule. And at that point he was 9 months post [surgery], and they said 'This looks excellent. Everything is good. Take the next step," Hinkie described.

That next step was increasing his basketball activity.

"That went great, and he played wonderfully, and was able to more and more, day by day by day, including play [basketball], and play in our gym, and shoot, and run, and do all sorts of things," Hinkie said. "Then we had one more precautionary [check-up], that was largely the pre-summer league one, and it looked different. It just looked different.

"He had no symptoms, he doesn't have any pain. It hasn't really been bothering him, he had been many, many weeks without even any soreness, and it just looks different," Hinkie said about Embiid's condition. "So it causes the surgeons to say 'Well that's different. What is that? Let's get to the bottom of this,' and that's the thing we've been working on."

So the quest to find out why Embiid's right foot looks different from his previous scans, and what that means for his future, is ongoing. The Sixers met with Martin O'Malley at the Hospital for Special Surgery on Tuesday. They will now send him down to Bob Anderson of the Carolina Medical Center for another opinion.

Hinkie went on to say that he's not yet sure what the next course of action is, but it sounds like they're getting close to a decision. Everything is still on the table, including the potential for another surgery.

"No," Hinkie said bluntly when asked whether surgery had been ruled out. "All options are on the table.

"We've been talking to a lot of experts around the nation, and honestly around the globe, about what the best course of action is for him," Hinkie said. "We're not sure what that is. It seems like we're close. As soon as we know, we'll let you know. But we're not sure what that is just yet."

[ice grillin you]

has any team in pro sports history had three consecutive picks in the first round of a draft

[ice grillin you]

jahlil talking about how him and amile jefferson going back n forth all year about what is the better city philly or chicago...and amile telling him watch you are gonna end up in the greatest city in the world

[SD]

I don't believe this for s second but Chris Mannix was just on the fanatic and said the teams in the top 10 he talked to after the draft thought the sixers were set to take Mudiay but Okafor dropped so they went with him instead

[ice grillin you]

I don't believe this for s second but Chris Mannix was just on the fanatic and said the teams in the top 10 he talked to after the draft thought the sixers were set to take Mudiay but Okafor dropped so they went with him instead

so they would have taken mudiay over angie but not okafor?....yeah that doesnt make sense

if it were true then hinkie magic has to be beside himself with joy that okafor fell to them

[BigEd76]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LckiKil7_Q

Damaged goods

[ice grillin you]

he cant even walk?

[MDS]

most interesting thing i picked up from that experience:

one time larry brown didnt play clarence weatherspoon in a game because he forget he was on the team

[phattymatty]

Spoon and Dana Barros were so fun on NBA Jam.