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76ciology wrote:Patrick Ewing played 78 games at age 34. Was an allstar and 8th in MVP.
sixers hoops wrote:76ciology wrote:Patrick Ewing played 78 games at age 34. Was an allstar and 8th in MVP.
Why are we worried about Embiid’s age? We just need his knees to get fixed. If a surgery to fix his knees and get him back relatively healthy for 2026-27 is realistic, then he will be fine. His age isn’t really the issue. He just needs to be able to play without constant pain. Most star players are good until 34, who don’t have massive injuries and take care of themselves.
The original plan was to let Embiid get used to playing with pain, the way Dwyane Wade did during his Hall of Fame career, regularly draining the knee and injecting it with platelet-rich plasma (PRP). Sixers doctors and experts interviewed by The Inquirer considered this the best way for Embiid to rehabilitate the injury for the long-term. Once it reached a certain point of healing, resting the knee would not help it recover; it would, in fact, hurt it.
However, it has been several weeks since Embiid has gotten better. Lately he’s gotten worse. NBA sources say the big guy has become morose about his latest injury battle as a series of ominous options loom — options that could cost him the rest of this season and maybe some of the next.
The same Sixer who made “orbital bone fracture” and “navicular bone fracture” common phrases in Philadelphia sports lexicon — he’s had two of each — might soon add one of these: microfracture surgery; meniscus replacement; low-dose radiation therapy; or even the ominous-sounding osteotomy, in which doctors break a bone in the hip to realign the joint to alleviate pressure.
One source called the procedures “radical” in light of the mundane injury and surgery that brought Embiid to this point. For some reason, what should have been a routine rehab and a routine return to play has gone horribly wrong.
Doctors with whom The Inquirer spoke over the past weeks say some of these procedures require six months to a year before an athlete can return to full action, and that any return will invariably come with long-term limitations.
ReggiesKnicks wrote:https://www.inquirer.com/sixers/sixers-joel-embiid-knee-surgery-shut-down-20250224.html?utm_source=t.co&utm_campaign=edit_social_share_twitter_traffic&utm_medium=social&utm_content=&utm_term=&int_promo=The original plan was to let Embiid get used to playing with pain, the way Dwyane Wade did during his Hall of Fame career, regularly draining the knee and injecting it with platelet-rich plasma (PRP). Sixers doctors and experts interviewed by The Inquirer considered this the best way for Embiid to rehabilitate the injury for the long-term. Once it reached a certain point of healing, resting the knee would not help it recover; it would, in fact, hurt it.
However, it has been several weeks since Embiid has gotten better. Lately he’s gotten worse. NBA sources say the big guy has become morose about his latest injury battle as a series of ominous options loom — options that could cost him the rest of this season and maybe some of the next.
The same Sixer who made “orbital bone fracture” and “navicular bone fracture” common phrases in Philadelphia sports lexicon — he’s had two of each — might soon add one of these: microfracture surgery; meniscus replacement; low-dose radiation therapy; or even the ominous-sounding osteotomy, in which doctors break a bone in the hip to realign the joint to alleviate pressure.
One source called the procedures “radical” in light of the mundane injury and surgery that brought Embiid to this point. For some reason, what should have been a routine rehab and a routine return to play has gone horribly wrong.
Doctors with whom The Inquirer spoke over the past weeks say some of these procedures require six months to a year before an athlete can return to full action, and that any return will invariably come with long-term limitations.
Move over Bradley Beal, there is a new worst contract in the NBA.
ReggiesKnicks wrote:https://www.inquirer.com/sixers/sixers-joel-embiid-knee-surgery-shut-down-20250224.html?utm_source=t.co&utm_campaign=edit_social_share_twitter_traffic&utm_medium=social&utm_content=&utm_term=&int_promo=The original plan was to let Embiid get used to playing with pain, the way Dwyane Wade did during his Hall of Fame career, regularly draining the knee and injecting it with platelet-rich plasma (PRP). Sixers doctors and experts interviewed by The Inquirer considered this the best way for Embiid to rehabilitate the injury for the long-term. Once it reached a certain point of healing, resting the knee would not help it recover; it would, in fact, hurt it.
However, it has been several weeks since Embiid has gotten better. Lately he’s gotten worse. NBA sources say the big guy has become morose about his latest injury battle as a series of ominous options loom — options that could cost him the rest of this season and maybe some of the next.
The same Sixer who made “orbital bone fracture” and “navicular bone fracture” common phrases in Philadelphia sports lexicon — he’s had two of each — might soon add one of these: microfracture surgery; meniscus replacement; low-dose radiation therapy; or even the ominous-sounding osteotomy, in which doctors break a bone in the hip to realign the joint to alleviate pressure.
One source called the procedures “radical” in light of the mundane injury and surgery that brought Embiid to this point. For some reason, what should have been a routine rehab and a routine return to play has gone horribly wrong.
Doctors with whom The Inquirer spoke over the past weeks say some of these procedures require six months to a year before an athlete can return to full action, and that any return will invariably come with long-term limitations.
Move over Bradley Beal, there is a new worst contract in the NBA.
phillynative wrote:Intaweb starting to float around the retirement notions
ExplosionsInDaSky wrote:How about they found out if the knee is degenerative and then make a determination from there? He's done if this is a Brandon Roy/Andrew Bynum situation. With Roy he had his meniscus removed which basically ended his career. His knees were basically lacking any cartilage and he had to call it a career. Bynum had MCL tears and then had thr bowling accident. Paired with a crappy work ethic Bynum was forced to call it a day as well. With Bynum I remember it started out as a "bone bruise." The idea was that he had to rest it until the cartilage was right again. It obviously never happened.
Joel is either headed down the same road as those two OR he's a surgery away from getting it right. I remember Bynum tried all of the knee injections and lubricants as well to no avail.