Featured Columnist IVOctober 28, 2024
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Joel Embiid hasn’t performed a sport but this season, however he’s formally within the NBA’s 2024-25 stat e book due to a technical foul.
NBA Official announced Monday that the seven-time All-Star was assessed a postgame technical foul following Philadelphia’s extra time victory over the Indiana Pacers on Sunday. The league workplace reviewed the scenario and issued the foul.
ESPN’s Shams Charania famous the postgame technical was as a result of Embiid waved a towel throughout Andrew Nembhard’s late free-throw try.
The free throws in query occurred within the closing 20 seconds of extra time. The Sixers star was standing close to the bench and waved the towel as Nembhard made one in all two makes an attempt to trim the deficit to 2 factors.
Philadelphia ended up successful by 4 factors after late free throws from Tyrese Maxey.
It was the 76ers’ first win by three video games of the season. They haven’t had Embiid or Paul George on the court docket but, which has positioned a lot of the offensive onus on Maxey. The guard responded Sunday by pouring in 45 factors.
Whereas Embiid hasn’t performed but this season, he has been within the headlines.
The NBA is investigating the 76ers’ resting coverage in relation to the star huge man. Philadelphia cited “left knee administration” when explaining why he sat out within the preseason and commenced the marketing campaign on the sidelines, which was notable since he suffered a torn meniscus in January.
Nevertheless, he nonetheless performed for Staff USA within the 2024 Paris Olympics over the summer time.
Embiid additionally turned heads when he informed ESPN’s Tim Bontemps earlier this month, “If I needed to guess, I might most likely by no means play back-to-backs the remainder of my profession.”
Accidents have all the time been a storyline throughout the 30-year-old’s profession, as he has by no means performed greater than 68 video games in a season and missed his first two campaigns after he was the No. 3 total choose of the 2014 draft.
Preserving him wholesome for the playoffs is definitely a precedence for the crew, though the NBA might disagree with the way it does so relying on the outcomes of the investigation.
For now, Embiid has extra technical fouls than minutes performed this season.
