CoreyGallagher wrote:Conspiracy theories seem odd to me at this point, five-plus injured rookies later.
MCW finished his rookie season injured, Noel missed his first season, Embiid missed two seasons, Okafor was injured throughout and finished his rookie season injured, Simmons missed his rookie season, and I could be forgetting some more obscure rookie injuries.
MCW took a beating in his 1st season in the NBA, shouldering a load on a pretty bad team. He missed 12 games. Don't think thats anything out of the norm.
Noel and Embiid were both injured PRIOR to the NBA draft and we selected that knowing it. We knew what we were getting into there.
Yea Embiid had gotten hurt again down the line, but someone that big and with a history of injuries prior just wasn't shocking IMO.
Okafor played 53 games and went down with a knee injury. He was an out of shape, overweight 19-20 year old kid banging down low in the NBA. Dont think that was out of the norm either. People get hurt all the time.
Simmons had a fluke injury in training camp when someone landed on his foot.We likely wrapped him in bubble wrap for the season.
Fultz is a bizarre situation. I guess we will see how he lines up with the rest of the them after this season and update hopefully 2morro.
Yes we have been unlucky, but I do not think its anything out of the norm. Guys get hurt all the time, and we had 2 guys with major injuries prior to being drafted, so long recovered and potential set backs were to be expected.
If anything, its the way our PR team communicates these injuries that makes us all scratch our heads. If they were just straight up and honest with people.....the dark clouds wouldn't be so heavy and conspiracy theories wouldn't be in such heavy circulation.
Hopefully Fultz is healed up, shooting jumpers and ready to ball. The whole situation is/was bizarre and I have a feeling it could linger all season, but ill keep my fingers crossed in hopes I am wrong.