The Philadelphia 76ers have had a nightmare start to their season, sitting at 3-13 and holding the second-worst record in the NBA. Despite high expectations, the team has been plagued by injuries and a lack of success, with Joel Embiid at the center of their struggles.
It’s been some sort of nightmare start to the season for the 3-13 Sixers, fast falling behind the eight ball despite going into the season with big expectations.
Embiid, who over the off-season claimed he’d lost “25, 30 pounds,” has played in just four of a possible 16 games and hasn’t looked himself. He’s averaged career lows across the board in points per game , rebounds and blocks while shooting 37.9 per cent from the field. Philadelphia responded by losing to an undermanned Memphis side, with Embiid’s body language glaring. Afterwards he criticised the person that leaked the team meeting details and hasn’t played since due to ongoing knee management.
We’ve seen injuries deteriorate the careers of other NBA bigs over the years, and you do wonder if all those surgeries are starting to catch up to Embiid.Embiid suspended over reporter run-in | 00:28 “You’re taking about these big, 7-foot-2 bodies with extra weight. Some of the guys we’ve watched, it ends fast.”The 34-year old was regarded as the best acquisition of any team in the off-season as the planets aligned for Philadelphia by signing George with craftily designed max contract space you rarely see from a bona fide contender.
Even in the games he’s played, George hasn’t been that effective for Philadelphia, though he’s clearly underdone and still adapting to his new team. That’s perhaps the most tragic part about this tumultuous start to the season for Philadelphia – that it has so much potential to be a genuine contender if not for extraneous variables currently clouding the picture.big winner of the off-season, was seen along with New York as the biggest threat to Boston in the East. It was widely viewed as the Sixers’ best chance at competing for a title in the Embiid era, with George and Maxey rounding out a superstar big three.
To go glass half full, the Sixers have the current favourite for Rookie of the Year, Jarred McCain, amid a superb start to the season for the 20-year old guard.It’s included McCain averaging 26 points per game as a starter – the most by a rookie since Michael Jordan.
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