Staff writer Vellastrations hit the streets of Philly to find out how Sixers fans were taking the Joel Embiid injury news. To the surprise of no one, they're not taking it well. 'It’s just going to be brutal without him,' one fan said.
In a fourth-quarter drive to the basket Thursday, the Toronto Raptors’ power forward had slammed his left elbow into Joel Embiid’s face, fracturing his right orbital bone and giving him a concussion. The Sixers won, but at a great cost: Embiid, on pace to be the league MVP,Fans woke up to the news Saturday with a mixture of anger and disappointment.
“None of the starters should’ve been in that long, not when you’re up by 30 points,” Perez said while walking through Center City. “This was the only team that had any chance of winning anything. I have no faith in the Phillies’ bullpen, and thank God hockey is over.” Scott Geftman, a Lower Merion native who traveled home from New York for the Broad Street Run on Sunday, agreed that Rivers should shoulder some of the blame for the injury. But he said Embiid himself can’t escape responsibility.
“Part of me wonders how much of that decision to keep him in was Joel,” Geftman said. “He wanted to keep his numbers up, rather than make the smart decision to sit.” Losing their star player during the playoffs seemed, for some, to be a fitting ending to a season rocked by controversy. Embiid’s injury was the absolute lowest point for the Sixers, even eclipsing the drama over Ben Simmons and his eventual trade, according to Daniel Ott.and his teammates who felt he wasn’t pushing himself hard enough to get help and return to play.
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