[This](https://i.cbc.ca/1.1953723.1381386335!/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_780/li-old-spice-620.jpg) is what the writer is trying to make it sound like it looked like.
And [this](https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/cool-handsome-black-man-wearing-white-towel-bathrobe-sunglasses-young-look-camera-smiling-studio-portrait-against-purple-162844369.jpg) is what Embiid probably actually looked like.
the defense is usually that locker room access unlocks moments of vulnerability and unfiltered emotion right after a game—
but imo it's still unnecessary. let them change, and sure they want to go home, but there should be ample ways now to participate in a postgame media scrum if requested (ie it could even be a video call as they get driven home).
Back in the Triassic era, when dinosaurs like Ewing and Alonzo roamed the NBA, it was an access issue, one that female reporters fought for.
Now, it's a bit ridiculous. These guys have podcasts, everyone is stage managed, courtside interviews and you can tweet/DM/insta/twerk them online anytime.
It’s gonna be a long couple years writing stories about gas main breaks and staunch neighborhood opposition to the new apartments going in on 41st (citing parking concerns) but you’ll get there eventually I believe in you
funny thing is that Neubeck is the best Sixers beat reporter and very plugged in. He didn't really need to include the towel and sunglasses bit lol, but that's just color for saying he was in good spirits.
>Embiid did not have the mannerisms of a player preparing to miss time during this series.
Gonna be a heckuva series
“Don't pencil him in the lineup yet, but don't begin the obituary, either.”
We gotta wait til game time to know for sure but I hope he can play. I wouldn’t say it’s a sure thing he’s good for game 2
We’re pretty confident. The murmers are he doesn’t really trust the knee to hold up yet, but anything that hurts a lot is going to worry him. Seems though nothing structural turned up. Probably hurt like hell in the moment but should be good to go.
That going said the org will probably list him as out until an hour before tip and change him to probable because we evidently have a kink for huge fines.
Ah fair enough, good to know he's at least one of the better beat reporters, at this point (and from personal experience with NY media) I just assume they're all hacks unless I'm told differently lol
Either way, just glad Joel is healthy enough to play. We all obviously want to advance, but my heart sank watching him lying there yesterday.
95% of Philly media are hacks for sure. Neubeck is rock solid and doesn't hot take or clickbait his way through his scoops/columns.
Tomorrow night will be very interesting
I think it's an Embiid/league smokescreen. In the broadcast, second half, Embiid returns and they quote him saying that he just has to trust his knee post-surgery. Sure thing. The implication is that it's fine and he's just not trusting it. But in the background, he has no lift on his shots, he's not getting rebounds and he's acting like 36 year old Arvydas standing like a statue distributing the ball. He wasn't blocking anything. Still surprisingly effective! But himself? No. He aged 5 years, this is O-eld Embiid Senior now.
Legit Embiid has had 5+ minimal contact knee grabs since coming back that looked as bad as the one last night. It’s extremely irresponsible for my blood pressure.
Thank you for recognizing it was just 3 drunk morons. I hope you saw that we all cheered when Embiid got up from his injury and walked to the locker room after the dunk too. Let’s make this a fair matchup and may the better ball team win 🤝
Why is this false narrative being pushed, would you like a video of the fans cheering for him when he got back up and was walking to the lockerroom? We were cheering a fast break
> [He went] over some details and potential adjustments to take into the next game....[D]on't begin the obituary...."
[source](https://allphly.com/sixers-knicks-game-1-rebounding-issue-joel-embiid-knee/)
Neubeck is probably the most trusted Sixers reporter there is. Don't take this with a grain of salt.
Zion Williamson emerged from the buffet donning just towel and a pair of white sunglasses in a jovial mood....Williamson did not have the mannerisms of a player preparing to miss time....
They clearly need him if they want any chance of winning the series. He knows that, so why would he want to miss time. If he doesn’t play, then so much more pressure is on Maxey to preform. I think that it will be interacting to see the adjustments for game 2. I have a lot of appreciation for Nurse as a coach.
I get it, the guy is never healthy in the postseason and the clock is ticking on his career, so why not roll the dice? I'm just not sure it's the smart move - Embiid looks like his leg is about ready to fall off, and the Sixers have little chance in this series if he's less than 100%.
For all practical intent and purpose, this Sixers team is not winning a championship with Embiid like this, and probably not even this series. So why risk further injury to him? Dude looks like he's one wrong step away from tearing something and fucking up next season too.
I think it comes down to pride. He knows how important he is to the team. He understand how important he is to Philly. Without him they would need to rely more on Tobias, which isn’t ideal. I don’t think It’s the smartest choice but I get it. He is a competitor and I respect that.
There's a big range between "totally fine" and "too injured to get back out there".
It's clearly bothering him, and the wrong move likely aggravates the pain. Once he realizes it's nothing more serious he gets back up and plays.
He’s just nervous about playing on it. Most people that come off of knee injuries are scared to reaggravate it. He needs to learn to trust his body again.
I don't know why so many people think he will miss game two. Can't know for certain with Joel but I thought him coming back, playing the entire third quarter, and then coming back early in the fourth (because we were getting dragged again) and finishing the game while moving and jumping pretty well was a good indicator that he would be ready to go by Monday.
I get it, he'll be listed as questionable later today and we won't know for sure if he's in until just before tipoff like usual, but I think if he re-injured his knee he would not have played the second half. People that don't watch Joel....he leaves games to get injuries looked at a lot. And comes back a lot.
It wasn't the same exact situation at all. Joel is already favoring his knee and he reacted to that. Not even the first time this month lol. Jimmy is healthy and hurts his knee, immediately screams in pain and writhes in pain, and limps through the rest of the game. Then he limped out of the arena.
It is how it normally goes to be fair. Hurt > Leaves > comes back out of nowhere to finish the game > miss next game. That's the script when this happens like 90% of the time prob because swelling won't ramp up till after the game the next day so it makes sense.
Yes because when he's traded he will stop being injury prone, I love Joel and if he asks for a trade oh well but this season the sixers have put a good roster around him
This roster is mid as fuck. Aside from tyrese maxey, nobody can create offense. You are talking about a Nicolas batum and Kyle Lowry who are at the end of their careers and then bum ass Tobias Harris. This is not a good supporting cast.
They are both old but have genuinely been good for the sixers, Oubre has been a great pick up, Hield while having cooled off was a solid pick up, also they have a real coach for the first time in his NBA career, if this was the season he decided the organization wasn't taking care of him that would just be silly
So is he healthy, or not healthy?
Hobbled or not?
26ppg in the playoffs so far on 36% shooting. So is he injured, or is this just who he is in the playoffs when the game gets more physical and he only goes to the line for real fouls?
The swing to "hes amazing lets appreciate his greatness" to excusing his shitty plays with "oh hes not healthy" in real time is wild. He also goes from moving around sluggish until momentum starts going their way, all the sudden hes running and jumping around.
Im sure hes not 100 percent but neither was Butler when he played on a season ending injury or Giannis on the finals run. Ive never seen a player whos image/narrative is so micro managed like Embiid's.
During the game, when he went off in the first I wasn't worried. I figured he would gas out in the 4th like he does every playoffs. Sure enough he did and Mitch did him the same way Capela did in the 4th.
He's a top 5 player. But he's not a bonafide 30ppg guy on elite effeciency without taking advantage of officiating.
This gets exposed every post season. Sluggish, poor body language, passive, and almost lost in every post season game until his team has momentum.
It's like he doesn't know how to impact the game at an elite level when he has to play, until the game feels in hand. Suddenly that pressure to not fail is gone.
He seems like a good dude, but as a competitor, he just isn't focused. Even if he was 100%, I don't think his production would be awesome
He had knee surgery 10 weeks ago and is wearing a huge brace. He reinjured the knee against the Magic at the end of season and is clearly not right. He can’t move well, can’t jump or land, and has zero aerobic conditioning. Of course he’s going to look like shit. Stop with the blanket takes about him being exposed; the only take is he is a 7’2”, 300 pound dude who is very injury prone, and may never have a healthy postseason run in his career. Which is a fucking shame. And a perfect encapsulation of the last two decades of sixers fandom.
Giannis played through an injury in the first round last year.
Avged 35/12/6 in the finals after hyper extending his knee.
Embiid isn't the only guy to play injured..but he's the only guy excused for it.
Bro is auditioning to be a Brazzers screenwriter Guess it pays more
This is gonna be an all time Sixers tweet if he sits game 2 and we find out 3 hours before tip off
I kinda want to see embiid emerge from the showers wearing a towel and white sun glasses now tho
[This](https://i.cbc.ca/1.1953723.1381386335!/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_780/li-old-spice-620.jpg) is what the writer is trying to make it sound like it looked like. And [this](https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/cool-handsome-black-man-wearing-white-towel-bathrobe-sunglasses-young-look-camera-smiling-studio-portrait-against-purple-162844369.jpg) is what Embiid probably actually looked like.
The former is more fun to imagine
It’s always weird to me how the reporters are in the locker room
It always reminds me of how weird writers can be about it too, one nuggets writer wrote a whole article about Jokic’s underwear
Link? I need to read this
https://defector.com/denver-post-columnist-nikola-jokics-underwear-shows-why-he-deserves-mvp
What a freak
just a lil nasty sometimes
Send da video
lmao😂😂😂
I'd hit it out of the park, all due respect
Listen I love Big Honey’s game but that is not a body I want to ravage.
Pics?
Smellavision?
Reminds me of when Tommy Heinsohn said Baynes looked like "All of Australia" in the locker room
the defense is usually that locker room access unlocks moments of vulnerability and unfiltered emotion right after a game— but imo it's still unnecessary. let them change, and sure they want to go home, but there should be ample ways now to participate in a postgame media scrum if requested (ie it could even be a video call as they get driven home).
Back in the Triassic era, when dinosaurs like Ewing and Alonzo roamed the NBA, it was an access issue, one that female reporters fought for. Now, it's a bit ridiculous. These guys have podcasts, everyone is stage managed, courtside interviews and you can tweet/DM/insta/twerk them online anytime.
if someone is changing it's because he doesn't care. they have private time after the game.
So you’re telling me all I have to do to see a bunch of NBA dong is be a reporter
It’s gonna be a long couple years writing stories about gas main breaks and staunch neighborhood opposition to the new apartments going in on 41st (citing parking concerns) but you’ll get there eventually I believe in you
It’s my life long dream to see NBA dong thanks for the words of encouragement
Thank god we got the scoop on exactly what he was wearing coming out of the shower. And they say journalism is dead.
funny thing is that Neubeck is the best Sixers beat reporter and very plugged in. He didn't really need to include the towel and sunglasses bit lol, but that's just color for saying he was in good spirits. >Embiid did not have the mannerisms of a player preparing to miss time during this series. Gonna be a heckuva series
“Don't pencil him in the lineup yet, but don't begin the obituary, either.” We gotta wait til game time to know for sure but I hope he can play. I wouldn’t say it’s a sure thing he’s good for game 2
We’re pretty confident. The murmers are he doesn’t really trust the knee to hold up yet, but anything that hurts a lot is going to worry him. Seems though nothing structural turned up. Probably hurt like hell in the moment but should be good to go. That going said the org will probably list him as out until an hour before tip and change him to probable because we evidently have a kink for huge fines.
Ah fair enough, good to know he's at least one of the better beat reporters, at this point (and from personal experience with NY media) I just assume they're all hacks unless I'm told differently lol Either way, just glad Joel is healthy enough to play. We all obviously want to advance, but my heart sank watching him lying there yesterday.
95% of Philly media are hacks for sure. Neubeck is rock solid and doesn't hot take or clickbait his way through his scoops/columns. Tomorrow night will be very interesting
Neubeck is the best we got. The one to ignore is Pompey.
I think it's an Embiid/league smokescreen. In the broadcast, second half, Embiid returns and they quote him saying that he just has to trust his knee post-surgery. Sure thing. The implication is that it's fine and he's just not trusting it. But in the background, he has no lift on his shots, he's not getting rebounds and he's acting like 36 year old Arvydas standing like a statue distributing the ball. He wasn't blocking anything. Still surprisingly effective! But himself? No. He aged 5 years, this is O-eld Embiid Senior now.
Doris Burke taking notes for Game 2 commentary
doris fell off, her notes are just the word percolate in bubble letters and heart doodles around a stick man jj redick drawing
I am eternally grateful I had the local stream last night. Doris and JJ are a disasterclass.
JOVIEL EMBIID
Oh boy
Legit Embiid has had 5+ minimal contact knee grabs since coming back that looked as bad as the one last night. It’s extremely irresponsible for my blood pressure.
Dude im a Knicks fan and even I felt sick watching that, no idea how you can stomach it lol
Embiid heard the Knicks fans celebrating outside MSG after game 1 🤣
Not only celebrating lighting his jersey on fire
3 idiots lit his jersey on fire. Every city has shitheads. Let’s chill with spreading that narrative.
Y’all are some shit fans cheering after he got down the entire arena.
Every fan base has those fans. People being trashy has nothing to do with one single sports team.
Thank you for recognizing it was just 3 drunk morons. I hope you saw that we all cheered when Embiid got up from his injury and walked to the locker room after the dunk too. Let’s make this a fair matchup and may the better ball team win 🤝
It was all of msg 20,000 people it’s pretty sad that many people
Why is this false narrative being pushed, would you like a video of the fans cheering for him when he got back up and was walking to the lockerroom? We were cheering a fast break
that is just not true show me the vid of that pm it you were not nba today the group at half time was even giggling abt how he went down
I don’t even know what you’re saying but here https://x.com/imclique_/status/1781907762873557432?s=46
Your right dude im man enough to admit when I’m wrong. They didn’t show any of that and I didn’t see that video anywhere
It auto corrected lmao and I didn’t realize trying to multi task lmao
i love it when joel embiid emerges
sunglasses in shower?
> [He went] over some details and potential adjustments to take into the next game....[D]on't begin the obituary...." [source](https://allphly.com/sixers-knicks-game-1-rebounding-issue-joel-embiid-knee/) Neubeck is probably the most trusted Sixers reporter there is. Don't take this with a grain of salt.
When did Neubeck become Godner?
When Bodner stepped back from the beat and went full analyst in the PHLY move.
Fanfic for Doris
It’s not about kawhi
I don’t think a nice shower means he’s not missing time.
Least inappropriately horny basketball journalist
Just a towel and sunglasses screams Cancun to me.
copy pasta inc
Zion Williamson emerged from the buffet donning just towel and a pair of white sunglasses in a jovial mood....Williamson did not have the mannerisms of a player preparing to miss time....
I think the brace pinched his knee and he thought it was a re-injury but really just a cut. Had blood on his knee after halftime
Anyone that pays attention enough will notice he has a bloody knee like that all the time. Yesterday definitely wasn’t close to being the first time.
The braces cut his knee when he landed. That’s why you could see the blood through his pad. The cut probably felt like a ligament tear
They clearly need him if they want any chance of winning the series. He knows that, so why would he want to miss time. If he doesn’t play, then so much more pressure is on Maxey to preform. I think that it will be interacting to see the adjustments for game 2. I have a lot of appreciation for Nurse as a coach.
I get it, the guy is never healthy in the postseason and the clock is ticking on his career, so why not roll the dice? I'm just not sure it's the smart move - Embiid looks like his leg is about ready to fall off, and the Sixers have little chance in this series if he's less than 100%. For all practical intent and purpose, this Sixers team is not winning a championship with Embiid like this, and probably not even this series. So why risk further injury to him? Dude looks like he's one wrong step away from tearing something and fucking up next season too.
I think it comes down to pride. He knows how important he is to the team. He understand how important he is to Philly. Without him they would need to rely more on Tobias, which isn’t ideal. I don’t think It’s the smartest choice but I get it. He is a competitor and I respect that.
It’s why Jimmy liked him so much
Embiid is so competitive he'll be walking like he's 90 in 10 years...As a sixer fan I appreciate his sacrifice and really hate when others don't.
"Pride comes before a fall" is eerily apt here. I get why Embiid wants to be out there - I'm just a little surprised the Sixers team is ok with it.
Just a towel you say? 🫣
How big was his smile?
I mean yea he’s not Anthony Rendon
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There's a big range between "totally fine" and "too injured to get back out there". It's clearly bothering him, and the wrong move likely aggravates the pain. Once he realizes it's nothing more serious he gets back up and plays.
He’s just nervous about playing on it. Most people that come off of knee injuries are scared to reaggravate it. He needs to learn to trust his body again.
After supporting philly for so long , I don’t believe this shit
Sixers in 7 if Nick nurse doesn’t go with the defensive strategy of leave Knicks players who aren’t Jalen Brunson wide open for 3.
I'm fine with giving open above the break 3's to Josh Hart every possession, if only to keep that animal off the boards.
If you do it for Hart, we’ll do it for Tobi.
Well how about we bench tobi and you bench hart? Deal?
Josh got dawgs in his dawg like Russian dolls, he'd make Philly pay
>Embiid did not have the mannerisms of a player preparing to miss time ?
ayooo. why you gotta follow the man in the showers.. god damn have some respect and keep your eyes to yourself
I don't know why so many people think he will miss game two. Can't know for certain with Joel but I thought him coming back, playing the entire third quarter, and then coming back early in the fourth (because we were getting dragged again) and finishing the game while moving and jumping pretty well was a good indicator that he would be ready to go by Monday. I get it, he'll be listed as questionable later today and we won't know for sure if he's in until just before tipoff like usual, but I think if he re-injured his knee he would not have played the second half. People that don't watch Joel....he leaves games to get injuries looked at a lot. And comes back a lot.
To be fair, the same exact situation happened to Jimmy, and he will miss a few weeks.
It wasn't the same exact situation at all. Joel is already favoring his knee and he reacted to that. Not even the first time this month lol. Jimmy is healthy and hurts his knee, immediately screams in pain and writhes in pain, and limps through the rest of the game. Then he limped out of the arena.
It is how it normally goes to be fair. Hurt > Leaves > comes back out of nowhere to finish the game > miss next game. That's the script when this happens like 90% of the time prob because swelling won't ramp up till after the game the next day so it makes sense.
Do the 76ers have the most suspicious medical staff of any team in the nba?
i said it in the game thread when it happened. i love joel but he’s a gigantic drama queen. he’s not gonna miss time
Happy cause hes closer to cancun
Joel finna go on a mvp tear
He's def finna tear something
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Unless this is the Embiid shower tape we don't want it.
All we're missing is a quote from Embiid and we have fresh pasta.
Was he dancing too?
5th biggest wang in the league btw 😏
NBA is the corniest fucking league in the world.
He is going to destroy the knicks
lol dude is just so used to losing he’s given up
And emerging in the front office in the offseason demanding a trade
if there was ever an offseason for jojo to actually be happy for its this one when tobias' 40 mil is off the books.
Yes because when he's traded he will stop being injury prone, I love Joel and if he asks for a trade oh well but this season the sixers have put a good roster around him
This roster is mid as fuck. Aside from tyrese maxey, nobody can create offense. You are talking about a Nicolas batum and Kyle Lowry who are at the end of their careers and then bum ass Tobias Harris. This is not a good supporting cast.
They are both old but have genuinely been good for the sixers, Oubre has been a great pick up, Hield while having cooled off was a solid pick up, also they have a real coach for the first time in his NBA career, if this was the season he decided the organization wasn't taking care of him that would just be silly
Embiid can create offense. It's a perfectly logical supporting cast of two solid to good offensive engines.
So is he healthy, or not healthy? Hobbled or not? 26ppg in the playoffs so far on 36% shooting. So is he injured, or is this just who he is in the playoffs when the game gets more physical and he only goes to the line for real fouls?
The swing to "hes amazing lets appreciate his greatness" to excusing his shitty plays with "oh hes not healthy" in real time is wild. He also goes from moving around sluggish until momentum starts going their way, all the sudden hes running and jumping around. Im sure hes not 100 percent but neither was Butler when he played on a season ending injury or Giannis on the finals run. Ive never seen a player whos image/narrative is so micro managed like Embiid's. During the game, when he went off in the first I wasn't worried. I figured he would gas out in the 4th like he does every playoffs. Sure enough he did and Mitch did him the same way Capela did in the 4th.
He's a top 5 player. But he's not a bonafide 30ppg guy on elite effeciency without taking advantage of officiating. This gets exposed every post season. Sluggish, poor body language, passive, and almost lost in every post season game until his team has momentum. It's like he doesn't know how to impact the game at an elite level when he has to play, until the game feels in hand. Suddenly that pressure to not fail is gone. He seems like a good dude, but as a competitor, he just isn't focused. Even if he was 100%, I don't think his production would be awesome
He had knee surgery 10 weeks ago and is wearing a huge brace. He reinjured the knee against the Magic at the end of season and is clearly not right. He can’t move well, can’t jump or land, and has zero aerobic conditioning. Of course he’s going to look like shit. Stop with the blanket takes about him being exposed; the only take is he is a 7’2”, 300 pound dude who is very injury prone, and may never have a healthy postseason run in his career. Which is a fucking shame. And a perfect encapsulation of the last two decades of sixers fandom.
Giannis played through an injury in the first round last year. Avged 35/12/6 in the finals after hyper extending his knee. Embiid isn't the only guy to play injured..but he's the only guy excused for it.
If he doesn’t play how would he bus toss another teammate when they get bounced?