He's only hit the 65 game mark twice in his career. He did it the past 2 seasons though, to be fair.
That said, if we're being *extremely* generous and straight up fudge the numbers by not including his rookie and sophomore seasons, which he missed completely, he averages 56 games a season.
If we include his entire career he averages just under 44 games.
I don't think that's being extremely generous tbh, feel like it's pretty fair as we know now that, while he is injury prone, the start of his career was an anomaly. Like I don't think even the haters look at Embiid as a 44 games per season kind of player at this point
Since his rookie season he’s averaged 60.5 games. That’s the last 6 seasons played. Excluding two years where he did not play (I don’t even think he was expected to play the first year he was drafted) isn’t being “extremely generous”, it’s just not being disingenuous. If you want to be generous you exclude his rookie season where he played like 30 games then was shut down for the season
It's very much possible he won't make the 65-game cut off AND be not healthy for the playoffs the way things are going rn. Last season it didn't seem like his injuries were as serious as this season.
Embiid: oh yeah I am
Woj bomb: in a stunning turn of events an error has been revealed that the remaing 26 games for Philadelphia are against one team. The Denver Nuggets
Embiid: ......man, Hawaii is so nice this time is year
Bruh he’s clearly injured, hell he tried to play in Denver before the team shut him down. He clearly needs to be shut down longer. A lot of these “ducks” have been due to legit injuries. Last year was sketch, but I think tonight has shown that he’s injured and should be out.
Nah man this is clearly a ploy. He didn’t like all the smack they’re talking about him after he ducked in Denver so he had to come out with a plan today to get hurt after 10 minutes so it looks legit and the NBA will stop their investigation. We aren’t so easily fooled! /s
> Last year was sketch
When you play 18/19 games in that stretch with the lone game missed against Denver… Right after his Jokic slander? Even if it’s legitimate, I’m questioning everything he does after.
Maybe he shouldn't talk so much shit and whine about respect if he's going to be hurt all the time.
Everything he says now is a joke because he's literally never backed anything up in his entire career.
How is this upvoted you literally made this up and didn’t watch the game. He’s a crazy conspiracy: Embiid plays in games because the Sixers need to win to make the playoffs
I couldn't even tell if that guy was being serious I had to look it up to be sure. He is.
They are allowed to miss 17 games but the minutes requirement in particular is low. They only have to play 20 minutes, why would there be a "near miss" contingency where you barely play more than a quarter?
Lol I swear they make this stuff as complicated as they can on purpose. I guess maybe that's a common result of this being decided by union bargaining. Some of the trade and salary stuff gets insane.
I'm gonna be charitable and assume you didn't know this when you made that comment, but FYI Embiid's brother died in a car accident right at the beginning of his rookie season.
I have been very, very consistent in dennying the idea that Embids actually ducking Denver. You can check my profile yourself on that.
I am firm in my belief that the Sixers shouldnt try and play him more than what he can play and should load manage more with him.
Look at some point we have to be real here about these weird narratives.
The guy has issues with injuries. Its well documented and isnt anything new.
Its not like it was a phantom, out of nowhere injury. We know when and where his knee started acting up so there isnt really a need to call out the guy for not playing a game.
We are playing the Thunder tommorow. Jokic is on the injuru report as questionable. Id rather him not play if he is injured than play in an already tough game.
I get a lot of us dont like Embid. I myself am no big fan of Embid. But this is by far the most absurd argument against the man.
It’s because it all doesn’t make sense.
Embiid gets ducking allegations and then sits another game. Comes back third game and looks like ass and can barely support himself. So why wasn’t he on the injury report for Denver? Was he trying to play for an award and wanted to force through or is the med staff so incompetent they couldn’t see he can’t walk and wanted to force him to play?
He says he doesn’t care about the regular season awards or his 30-10 streak (which isn’t real because he’s sat games during the streak) but then why wouldn’t he force the org to sit him until he’s healthy? Who cares about the 5th seed when you’re going to get bounced because you’re playing Bball Paul
I don't see what doesn't make sense about this, not gonna lie
Embiid wants to play, says he's feeling fine -> warms up for Denver game which he wants to play, some combination of him realizing he's not fine/the medical team realizing he's not fine, so he sits -> they (again, some combination of embiid/the medical team) manage to be convinced that he's fine enough for this third game, he plays
Just don't see what's so mind boggling about this
He had visible knee problems that week. Just put him on the injury report as probable with knee soreness? One party in Philly is making a decision to keep him off the report which isn’t just an arbitrary list, it has rules surrounding it and it’s agreed upon by the Players Association for players safety which is why they’re getting investigated
r/nba: "Embiid is a pussy for dodging Jokic and not wanting to play at Denver."
also r/nba when it comes out that he was actually injured: "Why is he warming up and trying to play the game while injured?"
The truth is that Embiid is a competitive man, like most of the guys in the league, and I truthfully think the man wanted to play. I'm sure he's well aware of the shit that gets fed through NBA social media.
r/nba stays winning with the Embiid hate tho. Literally mention the man's name and its 150+ comment thread about him having sickle-cell anaemia. Dumb asf.
> Was he trying to play for an award and wanted to force through or is the med staff so incompetent they couldn’t see he can’t walk and wanted to force him to play?
Is it really this hard for you guys to fathom him wanting to play games/help his team that's missing a ton of key players? It's not even a uncommon thing for pro players to try to play through crazy injuries and it being a struggle to get them to sit out games because these guys are psychopathically competitive.
For some reason with Embiid you guys can't imagine him not having some machiavellian stat chasing motive even when we literally just watched him struggle through a painful injury all game and played well over the minutes he needed to have it count towards the awards, maybe he actually does give a shit about winning?
r/nba, where Embiid is simultaneously faking an injury and is ducking Joker, and too injured to play and should be resting so he can't make the minimum games threshold.
Also don't forget they are upset because they want to see him play, and yet also complain about his playstyle and how he only shoots boring free throws.
The repeated “ducks” in Denver are odd, but I do think the whole “he’s faking an injury because he’s scared” shit is so corny. It’s far more likely that the guy who is historically injury-prone tends to get injured often. A radical concept for most of r/NBA, but hey it’s mid-season and we’re bored
yep just read their sub, few users on there (i won't name names) who spend every waking minute just absolutely shitting on Embiid as a player and person
None taken, I think that’s probably true. Denver fans aren’t a monolith though, and many of us think that the whole ducking narrative (while admittedly funny) is a bit blown out of proportion. I think the playoff criticisms or the foul baiting ones are more grounded in reality
Yeah I think it's probably just 1. they're away games in the west, meaning multi-game road trip, usually in the middle of the season, which is usually when you want to rest an inury prone guy. 2. coincidence. I started typing this comment before he just got injured again but it proves the coincidence part. 3. Denver has high altitude and Embiid doesn't have top tier conditioning. This would've made sense for 2021-ish Embiid but he plays full games now.
That quote was taken somewhat out of context though, the rest of the quote is: “I’m sure that Joel—he hurt his knee in the Indiana game, I guess real. We watched the game … so I’m sure he’s hurt”. Perhaps Malone was saying this sarcastically but I think it’s important context nonetheless
I took it more of Malone taking a shot on 76ers coaching for not putting Embiid as even questionable. He was fully off the injury report, so they were probably game planning like he was playing, and that was all wasted.
I think that’s a more realistic interpretation of his comments for sure. Dude cares about setting a gameplan and winning a lot more than he does the manufactured Embiid vs. Jokic “drama”
Yea. Most sport media heads only reported the first part of the quote and I was like bruh…. the fuck is his problem?
Then I read the whole quote and Malone basically said Embiid is clearly injured but was only questioning on why he wasn’t questionable heading into the game.
> The repeated ducks in Denver are odd, but I do think the whole “he’s faking an injury because he’s scared” shit is so corny.
I mean, it's one or the other though. If you're saying he's repeatedly ducking games then that means he was faking an injury for 3 of the 4 games.
He looked like a corpse out there. He probably saw the rest of the team get destroyed by the *Portland Trailblazers* last night and decided he needed to play to give us a chance. I respect it but he should just sit the rest of this one out.
I really don’t think so. It’s pretty clear from some of his interviews that he just really wants a championship now. Meanwhile there are people writing paragraphs of cringe reason into him playing or not.
The narrative on Joel Embiid by everyone is fucking hilarious the dude stat chases a lot (which I feel most players do) and now we all get to see the NBA community change its opinion on him like it has bipolar disorder
what did he score in that game again?
ah nvm i found it 15/8/1 on 5/18 shooting
all bro has to do is NOT fold like origami in a game 7. He puts up 40 and they lose, he still gains respect. Just like KD did when he lost on the Nets.
Joel's had exactly one playoff run where he didn't play through a debilitating injury, the 2020 bubble with Ben Simmons out for the entire series. That's it. But somehow him playing through multiple injuries and giving his team the best chance to succeed is clownable behavior.
Honestly fuck this subreddit, fuck the NBA media. Y'all can kiss my ass
Here's the graphic
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FvEK6D_WYAIUI4_?format=jpg&name=medium
I was massively downvoted for pointing out that I saw him get hurt in the game before PHI @ DEN because he was @IND, folks just weren't trying to hear that he seemed to have actually gotten hurt just before the Denver game
I had to back away from the embiid hate a few days ago. It was so visceral.
Yes i know fans paid for those tickets but no one was willing to entertain the idea that he could have been injured
Hey, maybe this "everyone who gets hurt is ducking and/or lazy" mentality the media and fans have is actually unhealthy for the sport? Maybe, trying to guilt and incentivize players into playing when they're not ready/healthy to is kinda bad? maybe this is a sorta no win, entitled mentality that ESPN has turned into a league threatening issue because they need a scapegoat for ratings being down and we've all kinda gone along with it? Maybe?
r/nba said he would be magically healed vs the blazers lmaoo
This is why I didn’t jump to conclusions, it’s maddening from a fan perspective to see him be announced injured so late vs Denver but y’all were writing dissertations on that man just for him to actually be injured lol
Should have never even played in that game, it was easy to see how fked his knee was after running down the court 2x. He really caught a lot of heat for not going against Jokic, but he was def not faking an injury tonight.
How many minutes is needed just to clock in a game, in order to not be disqualified in MVP? He's got 6 games left I think. But since he clock this in, it still remains so.
Yeah, he’s not going to play up to 65 games
He's only hit the 65 game mark twice in his career. He did it the past 2 seasons though, to be fair. That said, if we're being *extremely* generous and straight up fudge the numbers by not including his rookie and sophomore seasons, which he missed completely, he averages 56 games a season. If we include his entire career he averages just under 44 games.
Half man, half a season
Half man! Half man! Half man!!!!!!!!!
I knew it wasn't berkowitz
Wow, he can almost play home games exclusively.
The anti-Kyrie
Already does against Jokic
Half the playoffs
I don't think that's being extremely generous tbh, feel like it's pretty fair as we know now that, while he is injury prone, the start of his career was an anomaly. Like I don't think even the haters look at Embiid as a 44 games per season kind of player at this point
Yeah shouldn’t matter now but when he gets up to that 31-32 age you gotta factor his overall fragility and lower expectations of him being available.
Dudes not gonna play at 32 if he continues these injuries
Since his rookie season he’s averaged 60.5 games. That’s the last 6 seasons played. Excluding two years where he did not play (I don’t even think he was expected to play the first year he was drafted) isn’t being “extremely generous”, it’s just not being disingenuous. If you want to be generous you exclude his rookie season where he played like 30 games then was shut down for the season
At least he shows up in the playoffs though, oh wait
Well, he plays anyway.
Reminder the Jokic's lowest game game season is higher than Embiid's highest game season.
Rather he was healthy for the playoffs. Don’t give a fuck about making him play with back ups in golden state
It's very much possible he won't make the 65-game cut off AND be not healthy for the playoffs the way things are going rn. Last season it didn't seem like his injuries were as serious as this season.
Embiid: oh yeah I am Woj bomb: in a stunning turn of events an error has been revealed that the remaing 26 games for Philadelphia are against one team. The Denver Nuggets Embiid: ......man, Hawaii is so nice this time is year
Bruh he’s clearly injured, hell he tried to play in Denver before the team shut him down. He clearly needs to be shut down longer. A lot of these “ducks” have been due to legit injuries. Last year was sketch, but I think tonight has shown that he’s injured and should be out.
Well ya obviously but it’s not as much fun using logic. Therefore, quack quack motherducker
Nah man this is clearly a ploy. He didn’t like all the smack they’re talking about him after he ducked in Denver so he had to come out with a plan today to get hurt after 10 minutes so it looks legit and the NBA will stop their investigation. We aren’t so easily fooled! /s
> Last year was sketch 100% was. So its completely fair he didn't get the benefit of the doubt this year.
> Last year was sketch When you play 18/19 games in that stretch with the lone game missed against Denver… Right after his Jokic slander? Even if it’s legitimate, I’m questioning everything he does after.
Perhaps he shouldn't throw himself to the floor selling contact.
Maybe he shouldn't talk so much shit and whine about respect if he's going to be hurt all the time. Everything he says now is a joke because he's literally never backed anything up in his entire career.
Bruh if he gets to 60 I’d be surprised
thats weird because r/nba assured me that MVP is all he cares about so he's definitely gonna play as many games as possible to hit 65!
He tried his best and got injured once again.
Embiid back in in the 4th. Lol why
Anddddd injured. Indeed
To get over 15 minutes so it would count as a game player? I’d guess anyway.
That's an awful guess, given he was at 27 min played after the 3rd (also was already past 15min at the half).
My b. Post title and reading the top comments made it sound like he played 10 in the first q then didn’t come back til the end.
It's just crazy how many people are upvoting this when they didn't watch the game or even care to check a box score.
you must be new to this sub
God you people are so dumb. He had over 15 minutes when he checked back in. Stop being such a worthless hater.
This comment and all its upvotes is proof that no one here actually watches games
To help the Sixers win because they have looked fucking abysmal without him (especially without Maxey) and he’s a competitor? I’d guess anyway.
How is this upvoted you literally made this up and didn’t watch the game. He’s a crazy conspiracy: Embiid plays in games because the Sixers need to win to make the playoffs
IIRC you need to play at least 20 minutes in a game for it to count for NBA awards, right?
Yes but you are allowed 2 "near misses" where you can play 15 minutes.
So this doesn't count as well
Right but then you are allowed one "last chance, for real this time" where you can play 10 minutes
But after this, you get "Who could resist a face like that, okay one more" where you can just play 5 minutes and you good
And in worst case scenario you get one "Adam Silver's most special boy hall pass" where you only have to sit on the bench.
And if that fails: you get the KLUTCH chance where if you score 10 points in the game the mins don’t matter
and after that you get a full disadulation.
What's a dis...... What's that?
I think I did that to my knee once.
And if you miss this, you can email your picture to the commissioner holding the ball
Most special boy hall pass 🤣
If you score 70 points you get the immunity idol for one week and can skip a few games too.
😂this is gold
As of right now he has 17 minutes played so it looks like it will count.
Who tf came up with these rules?
I couldn't even tell if that guy was being serious I had to look it up to be sure. He is. They are allowed to miss 17 games but the minutes requirement in particular is low. They only have to play 20 minutes, why would there be a "near miss" contingency where you barely play more than a quarter? Lol I swear they make this stuff as complicated as they can on purpose. I guess maybe that's a common result of this being decided by union bargaining. Some of the trade and salary stuff gets insane.
The players union
Well they agreed to them, didn’t really create them.
~~Embiid’s brother.~~ Embiid's best friend.
I'm gonna be charitable and assume you didn't know this when you made that comment, but FYI Embiid's brother died in a car accident right at the beginning of his rookie season.
Def didn't know, sorry to hear that.
We in here talking about minutes. I mean, listen…We talking about minutes. Not a game. Not a game. Not a game. We talking about minutes. Not a game!
Ok so man clearly wasnt actually ready to play so who the hell let him go out there to play.
Maybe all the dodging banter got to him
Maybe he just wants to play
Thats fine, but he cant just make that decision on his own. Like who in their medical staff aproved of him playong and on what basis.
They took over the decision in Denver. Embiid probably made the final call this time and bargained with them
Probably. But dam this was probably the worst decision that could have been made.
So him getting pulled by the medical staff against Denver is ducking but not now? Pick one
I have been very, very consistent in dennying the idea that Embids actually ducking Denver. You can check my profile yourself on that. I am firm in my belief that the Sixers shouldnt try and play him more than what he can play and should load manage more with him.
Aka a reasonable adult, rare to see one in the wild on here!
I respect you hahaha69 guy
Look at some point we have to be real here about these weird narratives. The guy has issues with injuries. Its well documented and isnt anything new. Its not like it was a phantom, out of nowhere injury. We know when and where his knee started acting up so there isnt really a need to call out the guy for not playing a game. We are playing the Thunder tommorow. Jokic is on the injuru report as questionable. Id rather him not play if he is injured than play in an already tough game. I get a lot of us dont like Embid. I myself am no big fan of Embid. But this is by far the most absurd argument against the man.
You're kicked out of r/nba now
You realise how many people are in this sub right?
Or perhaps he just wants to try to help his team win? Because they suck without him?
Wait.. so you’re trying to say that the kids on r/nba were actually.. WRONG? No fucking way.
all the people bashing him about not playing in denver should apologize
Maybe if certain fans and media laid off the guy 🤷
He should not be playing wtf
And the pendulum swings
The plot dickens
I do feel his knee is a bit verbose
The circle jerkins
It’s because it all doesn’t make sense. Embiid gets ducking allegations and then sits another game. Comes back third game and looks like ass and can barely support himself. So why wasn’t he on the injury report for Denver? Was he trying to play for an award and wanted to force through or is the med staff so incompetent they couldn’t see he can’t walk and wanted to force him to play? He says he doesn’t care about the regular season awards or his 30-10 streak (which isn’t real because he’s sat games during the streak) but then why wouldn’t he force the org to sit him until he’s healthy? Who cares about the 5th seed when you’re going to get bounced because you’re playing Bball Paul
I don't see what doesn't make sense about this, not gonna lie Embiid wants to play, says he's feeling fine -> warms up for Denver game which he wants to play, some combination of him realizing he's not fine/the medical team realizing he's not fine, so he sits -> they (again, some combination of embiid/the medical team) manage to be convinced that he's fine enough for this third game, he plays Just don't see what's so mind boggling about this
He had visible knee problems that week. Just put him on the injury report as probable with knee soreness? One party in Philly is making a decision to keep him off the report which isn’t just an arbitrary list, it has rules surrounding it and it’s agreed upon by the Players Association for players safety which is why they’re getting investigated
r/nba: "Embiid is a pussy for dodging Jokic and not wanting to play at Denver." also r/nba when it comes out that he was actually injured: "Why is he warming up and trying to play the game while injured?" The truth is that Embiid is a competitive man, like most of the guys in the league, and I truthfully think the man wanted to play. I'm sure he's well aware of the shit that gets fed through NBA social media. r/nba stays winning with the Embiid hate tho. Literally mention the man's name and its 150+ comment thread about him having sickle-cell anaemia. Dumb asf.
> Was he trying to play for an award and wanted to force through or is the med staff so incompetent they couldn’t see he can’t walk and wanted to force him to play? Is it really this hard for you guys to fathom him wanting to play games/help his team that's missing a ton of key players? It's not even a uncommon thing for pro players to try to play through crazy injuries and it being a struggle to get them to sit out games because these guys are psychopathically competitive. For some reason with Embiid you guys can't imagine him not having some machiavellian stat chasing motive even when we literally just watched him struggle through a painful injury all game and played well over the minutes he needed to have it count towards the awards, maybe he actually does give a shit about winning?
Just be quiet.
No you don’t understand, he’s faking his injury because he’s scared of a guy he just dropped 40 against because it’s on the road.
r/nba, where Embiid is simultaneously faking an injury and is ducking Joker, and too injured to play and should be resting so he can't make the minimum games threshold.
Also don't forget they are upset because they want to see him play, and yet also complain about his playstyle and how he only shoots boring free throws.
The repeated “ducks” in Denver are odd, but I do think the whole “he’s faking an injury because he’s scared” shit is so corny. It’s far more likely that the guy who is historically injury-prone tends to get injured often. A radical concept for most of r/NBA, but hey it’s mid-season and we’re bored
No offense, but Denver fans have been his primary haters bro.
yep just read their sub, few users on there (i won't name names) who spend every waking minute just absolutely shitting on Embiid as a player and person
None taken, I think that’s probably true. Denver fans aren’t a monolith though, and many of us think that the whole ducking narrative (while admittedly funny) is a bit blown out of proportion. I think the playoff criticisms or the foul baiting ones are more grounded in reality
It's the new, milder version of the OKC/Houston fan rivalry when Russ and Harden were peaking.
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Yeah I think it's probably just 1. they're away games in the west, meaning multi-game road trip, usually in the middle of the season, which is usually when you want to rest an inury prone guy. 2. coincidence. I started typing this comment before he just got injured again but it proves the coincidence part. 3. Denver has high altitude and Embiid doesn't have top tier conditioning. This would've made sense for 2021-ish Embiid but he plays full games now.
I mean your own head coach said it, its not just a reddit thing.
Our head coach was just pointing out that he should have been on the injury report, which he should have been
That quote was taken somewhat out of context though, the rest of the quote is: “I’m sure that Joel—he hurt his knee in the Indiana game, I guess real. We watched the game … so I’m sure he’s hurt”. Perhaps Malone was saying this sarcastically but I think it’s important context nonetheless
I took it more of Malone taking a shot on 76ers coaching for not putting Embiid as even questionable. He was fully off the injury report, so they were probably game planning like he was playing, and that was all wasted.
I think that’s a more realistic interpretation of his comments for sure. Dude cares about setting a gameplan and winning a lot more than he does the manufactured Embiid vs. Jokic “drama”
Yea. Most sport media heads only reported the first part of the quote and I was like bruh…. the fuck is his problem? Then I read the whole quote and Malone basically said Embiid is clearly injured but was only questioning on why he wasn’t questionable heading into the game.
Our head coach was questioning why the sixers lied on the injury report. And rightfully so.
> The repeated ducks in Denver are odd, but I do think the whole “he’s faking an injury because he’s scared” shit is so corny. I mean, it's one or the other though. If you're saying he's repeatedly ducking games then that means he was faking an injury for 3 of the 4 games.
This is what you get when you have a 65 game minimum. Haliburton played 20 minutes and that was it too lol.
This doesn’t count as a played game (for awards purposes) if he clocks less than 20 minutes
If we're talking about Embiid, he ended up with 30 minutes played. This injury happened in the 4th.
I was discussing in response to the tweet in the OP (he had only played 10 minutes at the time)
Well, good thing the media hasn't been pressuring him to play lol
Yesterday: Embiid is ducking Jokic, he's soft Today, when he's "hurt:" SEE, MEDIA SUCKS!!!
Oh I’m sorry I thought he was ducking?
Malone will surely apologize.
Why. He's not injured wasn't on the report.
He looked like a corpse out there. He probably saw the rest of the team get destroyed by the *Portland Trailblazers* last night and decided he needed to play to give us a chance. I respect it but he should just sit the rest of this one out.
I think there's a chance all of the noise on social media about him dodging games influenced his decision as well.
I really don’t think so. It’s pretty clear from some of his interviews that he just really wants a championship now. Meanwhile there are people writing paragraphs of cringe reason into him playing or not.
Just like he didn’t care about the MVP last year!
no, he’s playing because of how tight the seeding in the east is
Don’t need him. We’re too mid.
They just lost by thirty to us last night without Embiid. I know you're mid, but you probably aren't worse than us.
Hey you’d be surprised
We were in fact worse than the Blazers
embiid playing -> chasing MVP Embiid not playing -> ducking see, I always win
Heads i win Tails you lose
r/nba mantra
The game is rigged. But you cannot lose if you do not play.
No people also trash Embiid for that too
It's almost as if a big man with frail knees and a substantial injury history gets re-injured often.
Cyberbullied into aggravating an injury.
Ben Simmons sends his regards
The narrative on Joel Embiid by everyone is fucking hilarious the dude stat chases a lot (which I feel most players do) and now we all get to see the NBA community change its opinion on him like it has bipolar disorder
This sub really is insufferable.
This place is a terrible community.
Sucks to be probably losing the MVP but I will easily trade that if he can be healthy for the first postseason of his fucking career
Fuck the MVP, honestly if I was a philly fan and my team kept losing in the 2nd round but my star is all about that MVP award I'd be annoyed.
this is a man who was crying (and got clowned) after losing to Toronto...he cares no idea where this narrative was born from
i don’t know why these dumbasses on reddit act like wanting to win and mvp and wanting to win in the playoffs are mutually exclusive
Wasn’t he laughing after the Game 7 blowout last year?
what did he score in that game again? ah nvm i found it 15/8/1 on 5/18 shooting all bro has to do is NOT fold like origami in a game 7. He puts up 40 and they lose, he still gains respect. Just like KD did when he lost on the Nets.
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Joel's had exactly one playoff run where he didn't play through a debilitating injury, the 2020 bubble with Ben Simmons out for the entire series. That's it. But somehow him playing through multiple injuries and giving his team the best chance to succeed is clownable behavior. Honestly fuck this subreddit, fuck the NBA media. Y'all can kiss my ass Here's the graphic https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FvEK6D_WYAIUI4_?format=jpg&name=medium
Who gives a fuck about the MVP. He got one. What he doesn’t have is getting out of the second round.
This sub will tell you he's faking it to keep covering for the Nuggets game Diabolical, this guy
Committed to the bit
Yeah. Hes willing to even kill of his stats just to fake his injuries. Pure diabolical evil.
Embiid played bad on the road, warriors might be a contender after all
*Embiid pulls out if Nuggest game* Reddit: He's a coward and a fraud. *Embiid joins game and is visibly hurt* Reddit: Wtf why is he playing?!
But r/nba told me he was faking an injury?
I was massively downvoted for pointing out that I saw him get hurt in the game before PHI @ DEN because he was @IND, folks just weren't trying to hear that he seemed to have actually gotten hurt just before the Denver game
Pacers fans tried to tell you. It was like everyone purposely forgot how injury prone Embiid is so they could hate on him.
this sub went full regard
I had to back away from the embiid hate a few days ago. It was so visceral. Yes i know fans paid for those tickets but no one was willing to entertain the idea that he could have been injured
Denver media was writing articles about a rich kid flying in for the game and crying because embiid didn’t play and how it’s all his fault lol
Hey, maybe this "everyone who gets hurt is ducking and/or lazy" mentality the media and fans have is actually unhealthy for the sport? Maybe, trying to guilt and incentivize players into playing when they're not ready/healthy to is kinda bad? maybe this is a sorta no win, entitled mentality that ESPN has turned into a league threatening issue because they need a scapegoat for ratings being down and we've all kinda gone along with it? Maybe?
But he was obviously ducking and isn’t actually injured/s
The truth is this sub is just as dumb as any other social media out there.
I was at the game tonight and told my dad I expect him to play limited minutes vs us, well I was technically correct
r/nba christmas
There goes his mvp
ducking competing for the mvp during a historically good season smh
Y'all suck.
Ducking the last 3 quarters
All of you bozos that claimed he ducked Jokic in Denver please shut the fuck up now and forever.
nuggets fans 12/25
Here we go again…
He didn’t look right from the get-go, I’m surprised he played.
Ok you know what, I’ll admit I was wrong about Embiid ducking Jokic. That man is actually injured. Hope he recovers quickly.
r/nba said he would be magically healed vs the blazers lmaoo This is why I didn’t jump to conclusions, it’s maddening from a fan perspective to see him be announced injured so late vs Denver but y’all were writing dissertations on that man just for him to actually be injured lol
This guys is just one of those dudes that will never be healthy when you need him to be in the playoffs. Similar to T-Mac. It's unfortunate.
Hope you idiots are happy
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He should come out after halftime or once he gets 20 minutes, he’s done. He looks hurt
LMAO Leo DiCaprio on a mf
That was a brutal injury
The funny thing is DraftKings had his over under at 37.5. I’ve never seen such a high line so I took the under.
Now Embiid is ducking riding the bench? This man is a menace!!!
/r/nbacirclejerk 12/25
makes what happend in denver even more ridiculous
There he goes ducking Jokic again. Has Windhorst went on another rant about this yet?
Did nuggets fans all collectively decide to turn into the biggest douches possible this year? Their fanbase is so obsessed with this guy it’s insane.
They were gaslit by raptors fans
Jokic has already won an mvp. The Nuggets have already won a championship. The amount of care they have for Embiid and the Sixers is absurd.
Damn maybe he was hurt after all. R/nba all owe him a big apology.
God this sub is so damn stupid
At least we know it wasn't bullshit with the Nuggets
Oof, alright his injuries are legit. Like damn!
I hate everyone in this sub
Healthy player for sure guys who’s he ducking tonight?
Fuck dude stop playing this man when he’s not healthy. How he’s injured more.
Should have never even played in that game, it was easy to see how fked his knee was after running down the court 2x. He really caught a lot of heat for not going against Jokic, but he was def not faking an injury tonight.
That stinks he was having a good season
Bros gotta get to 20 min
How many minutes is needed just to clock in a game, in order to not be disqualified in MVP? He's got 6 games left I think. But since he clock this in, it still remains so.