Post#855 » by KramerDSP » Thu Oct 28, 2021 4:47 pm
This is sacrilegious for sure and I don’t like even bringing this up, but as a hypothetical, what could the Sixers realistically get for Joel Embiid if they decided that he was likely to miss more games than play in them from this point on in his career (and the league hadn’t caught on because a major season-ending injury hadn’t happened yet). My heart says hell no, but my brain says “ahh, can’t really refute that is a legit possibility of Embiid sitting more games than he plays for the remainder of his career.”
I’m thinking about the 2022 and 2023 class and the odds of getting a player like Chet or Victor. It would be heartbreaking to trade him, but if he can’t walk two days after an injury already at this point, the odds don’t look good. He’s also our leader but is better off being the second best player in a championship contender and will always be the Alpha in Philadelphia no matter who we bring in.
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