[Injury] Joel Emiid goes down after a knee-to-knee collision with Ja’Kobe Walter, and then goes back to the locker room (with replays)
He’s back now
I feel this happens like twice a week every week
I mean he has like no meniscus in his knees
And he has no knees in his meniscus
Mekneescus?
And no shame in his ways.
His knee is basically the same as your average great grandmas at this point
Did Embiid sacrifice his knees for the mvp award?
People didn’t even expect him to last this long when he was drafted tbh. He had back problems and foot problems. Now he has knee problems.
Because it does. Between him and Lebron there’s gonna be alot of game stoppage and limping going on, only to return to the game and be fine
Ant Edward’s has a history of doing this too witnessed it a couple of times lol
Anthony Davis too
Try banging knees with someone else at full force and let me know how you feel.
I did that one time in a high school game and thought my knee had just exploded. I limped off and for two minutes I was convinced my career was over and I was headed for emergency surgery. Five minutes later it felt fine and I went back into the game.
The body is really weird sometimes.
The other guy in the clip didn’t appear to notice.
I have and it can really hurt, that doesn’t change the fact Embiid and Lebron spend more time limping and being hurt and coming back in the game more than most players. We aren’t just making this shit up cuz we don’t like the players, it’s because it’s true. You can be a Homer and be honest
It’s very early in the season, how sustainable is this?
It isn’t. But it is nice to imagine.
Except a lot of the time Embiid returns and is then out for 3 weeks. He almost always comes back to play unless it’s a tear. I don’t like it. Guys has sacrificed his body. Don’t care how much money he’s made. He goes above and beyond when it comes to playing through pain.
Planting the seed for a GTA 6 break.
Damn this joke really does get made in every injury thread
Would you rather hear more about stretching the season, participation rules, removing 70 games and other pointless fixes to it?
He did this shit on Tuesday against the Cs too at halftime
Doing this shit? He has no cartilage and meniscus in his knee.
More like twice a game
This scenario happens like 7 times a season.
Season?? 7 times a week, maybe more. Literally just last game, he slipped on the floor, immediately grabbed the back of his leg, stayed down for an extended second, then finished the game out anyway.
I feel like it’s never the obvious injuries with Embiid. It’ll be a Twitter post the game after he drops 55 on 20 shots, that he’s being considered week to week/month to month with some random knee/back/leg/plague injury.
That Russian plague didn’t really catch on and we’ve already done appendicitis and Bell’s Palsy, so I’m hearing this year it’ll either be scurvy or gout.
Why?
Why the fuck is Nurse playing him. Doesn’t he have plantar fasciitis??
It’s Dean Wade and Jabari Walker at center otherwise if Bona is still out
He’s saving the world from witnessing Tacko Fall minutes in big 2026
He also has eye rabies or some shit
I’m sorry wut
He was diagnosed with Bell’s Palsy.Not sure that’s what they’re talking about but it’s the only thing even remotely related.
Eye. Rabies. Dude was pretty clear.
He’s back to being healthy or back to being hurt? Both are equally likely.
An injury like this where there is no twisting motion, it’s a contact injury where he was hit by another knee feels a lot better than if he’d landed awkwardly or something. Anyone would feel pain over this sort of contact, you don’t need glass knees to be hurt from it, so that’s the cope here.
Can confirm. Took knee-to-knee contact hooping just 2 weeks ago (I was the receiver, like Joel), and it sent me to the floor for a good while. Hurts like hell especially if you take it to the inside of the knee.
That’s exactly my thought. Hurt knees is never a good thing, but something like that would definitely be preferable if you’re gonna hurt a knee. It’ll definitely be sore, but nothing that icing it down will help with.
Looks like a regular knee to knee bump but still hurts like hell
Why wasn’t Walker hurt?
Because he has more dog in him
(probably just hit a different part of the knee)
Usually in a knee to knee one guy gets it worse
Walker contacted with bent knee front on. Joel took a force sideways to his knee, which introduces sheer force. I would pick Walker in that collision 10⁄10 times.
coz like a headbutt, one head will hurt more
Probably because he doesn’t already have the worst knees in the league
They have to trade for a reliable backup center.
There’s basically never reliable decent centers available. When there is, it’s usually only 1, and usually something is wrong with him. I can’t even count how many times teams just had to put a 7’ body basically, because they can’t find anything else.
There’s not even 30 starting caliber centers in the NBA. A good backup center is such a bonus. Turns out being close to 7 feet and being an elite athlete with ball skills while also being healthy is extremely extremely rare.
A few years ago a study published that something like 15-20% of ALL seven foot American males between 18-40 are in the nba.
It’s so rare to get that height. Let alone be a competent athlete
Yup. The Lakers were giving legit minutes to the ghost of Alex Len in 24-25
That sounds horrible
Yeah replacement level centers aren’t as easy to just find anymore, mostly due to teams not being as willing to move on from them as they were a handful of years ago
Why is this? Why are centres so sought after (we need centre), there’s so little supply and they don’t really get paid well compared to other starting positions. I feel like all those things shouldn’t be true
There are none. But hey there’s a Klutch center in Washington looking move…
He doesn’t wanna play center though
Myles Turner would fit perfectly!
Sincerely a Bucks fan
Buy out his contract and we got a deal
Turner + Kuzma for Jaylen Brown. Who says no?
Everybody needs that
I guess what I meant was a “more reliable” backup center. Embiid looks so old and broken.
Or a reliable starting center
Insane that theyve never had a reliable backup center since they got Embiid
They’re kind of stuck for cap reasons. They’re hard capped and can’t fit anybody else without moving salary to match. And they have so few options to do that with, that even if an interesting player opened up it’s really tough to find a deal that works.
Best and probably only hope is somebody old but decent gets waived and they can fit them in as a prorated minimum salary late season. But that’s not always there.
just wait for the tacko fall emergence
I don’t believe they really can due to CBA implications, unless they get off someone who is considered a rotation player
Knee pads exsist.
20 min later he throws down nasty dunk in the lane. Oh Joel.
Jeez that sucks
Crazy reading these comments in the same sub where people complain about sixers fans.
He’s been back in the game and played 10+ mins and people are still commenting. More proof that no one in here actually watches games
Its a sub full of posters, not fans
Why would anyone outside of Philadelphia be an Embiid fan?
I don’t care if you’re an embiid fan, but if you’re a fan of the sport you dont come out and cheer when an athlete is injured. I don’t consider myself a Tatum fan, but the sport is better with him back. It’s that simple.
He pulled a AD and is now back at the game
Please no injuries. I don’t want any Sixers fan to have an excuse to fall back on when they inevitably fail
Chill
Nah, I respect the shit talk.
Lmao
Saying this after he beat y’all on one leg is wild
Saying this after Celtics dominated them for years is hilarious.
Top 1% commenter vibes. Lakers fans going to bat for the Celtics because lebrons in philly is pathetic.
I hate that I was hoping the Celtics won last night. Had to take a shower afterwards.
Always been a Lebron fan, but whats true is true.
Let them have this, they dont get much
Saying this after they blew a 3-1 lead whilst being 32-0 in that situation before this is hilarious.
That FIRST ROUND win was really 76ers’ championship LMAO. Y’all got swept in the series right after while never making it past Second Round since the Twin Towers were still standing
Hang the banner
Sixers fans bring this up so much you’d think they went 12-0 the rest of the playoffs
Saying this when your last championship win is over 40 years ago is wild.
Better to blow a 3-1 lead than get swept immediately there after.
Top 1% commentator damn. Fucking reddit mod
Not my fault people upvote what I say
Did you not see the game on Tuesday?
He trying to avoid it
Last I checked Celtics have recently gotten a ring and embiid/philly still haven’t made it past the second round of playoffs.
Brother, it has been 48 hours since we beat them by 22, and Embiid was 2⁄9 from the field with 6 rebounds.
I really am not that interested in what happened when we played without our MVP candidate star player. Get with the times.
Tatum played that series
Tatum was not an MVP star player at any point in that series
6 games in fact lol this dude conveniently forgot that, meanwhile Embiid only played 4 coming off the appendectomy. That was all he needed.
Celtics have been owning Philly for a while now
Sixers with no injuries to Lebron and Embiid is insane. They are a different team.
That’s giving us a Timelord that doesn’t get injured.
And people that like giving excuses will always come up with excuses. Why would you care about their copium?
You guys won’t make it any farther brother calm down
FURTHER
Have you never learned?
You wait til you’re the one cursing JB for his fumbling and get back with us lol
Nah he’s gonna enjoy the warm embrace and take us to the finals baby!
One game and literally entirely different team from championship team, relax StupidName111111
Not a valid excuse if he’s hurt every year
This is a brave thing to say with Paul George,Tatum and robinson on the roster
cant tell whos worse, lakers or celtics fans
easy, OKC fans
The last time the 76ers were relevant, the twin towers were still standing.
coping hard cause the push-off got banned
He’s back. Just living proof you people don’t watch hoop.
Celtics have had no excuses for years and repeatedly fail so I get that.
Like it matters. Even if this ends up being nothing, they’ll just use his previous injuries as an excuse instead
No offense but he’s really injury prone
It’s just a fact. It’s not really offensive
Jo misses plenty of games, but check the games played log over the last 7 years or so with Curry, Lebron, AD, Durant… n’lemme know if they are all “injury prone” as well…
No really?
No offense but bumping knees and Kuminga falling on his leg isn’t “injury prone”, it’s terrible luck
I’d say that seems more full circle than terrible luck
Knees of glass
This is why I don’t think they’re a super team.
Embiid is 1-3 years away from forced retirement. That body is done
And he’s also the biggest flopper in the league. He was back in the game within 5 min.
You don’t go to the locker room for a flop. There is nothing for him to gain with what you are implying on this play
It’s not offensive. It’s a fact. Joel will be injured or not in shape from injury during playoff time. My fellow sixers fan just keep waiting for the perfect storm.
A magnet
Who knew?
Came back into the game before this even got posted lol. Some of these comments are hilarious
Mans getting ready for that GTA6 release
Looks like a forward step by Joel. About 0:43 seconds in you see his right foot take a small step into the lane Walter was running. Really unfortunate
Yeah “let me get in the way… A little more in the way actually”
He is made of glass and should know better
Eeyyy i used to have this with AD!! Almost every game he goes down, then comes back. Never good for the heart
Glad he came back, but man, every time Embiid grabs that knee I stop caring about the score for a minute.
Just a knee bump and doesn’t look top serious.
Maybe someone can explain it to me but I never understood this. When someone gets injuried and lays on the floor, why do they not throw the ball out of bounds so the meddic team can rush out immeadiately?
Why would the opposing team that has possession give up a free 5v4 opportunity?
In soccer its standard to kick it out of bounds and then the opposing team tosses it back into you. I never see it happen in basketball but it could be done the same way
In hockey its all game even if it’s 5 to 1 or 5 to goalie
Has that ever happened? 5 players injured with just a goalie playing against the 5
Love that about soccer
And considering giving up an easy a basket is much much less significant than giving up a goal in soccer, it’s actually a much bigger jest.
No existing rule for fairplay. If opposing team goes out of bounds. Unlucky guy will get a turnover + ball goes to other team.
There’s no rule in soccer either afaik. You just do it because. I find it a bit weird with basketball personally
There flopping CONSTANTLY in soccer, same with basketball. Dudes aren’t giving the ball up unless they know for a fact it’s a real injury out there, soccer especially, they play on all the time
Assuming perfect sportsmanship you’d want play to stop in case the rush to use the advantage results in anything that might endanger someone. Like I think I’m remembering many years ago a like.. Carmelo injury (edit: here, that was easy to find) that resulted in people playing offense around him sprawled out on the court
But in reality I’d 100% expect players to grift if pantomiming limping for 6 seconds is all it takes to delete a fast break possession for the other team
If anyone’s worried for injured players’ sake I guess a perfect middle ground would be if coaches had the ability to tell the refs to stop because of an injury but it also instantly awards the opponent 3 points + possession? Not really possible to abuse in any way unless it’s like specifically a 4pt game and you think stopping the fast break reduces the chance of a 3+1.. the only problem is I don’t think many coaches would use it unless it’s the kind of catastrophic injury there’s gonna be a timeout for anyway
The refs should not stop play unless there is a real reason to stop play. If your guy is down, foul. If the team isn’t fouling, mother guy is down, they don’t think that guy’s being down is worth giving up on the possession. That is up to that team, not the opponent.
“Sportsmanship”
Weird concept in sports I know.
probably coz there’s like 3 or 4 plays a game where someone just lies around on the floor after a knock. Can’t take all of those plays off lol people might start abusing it
It would be abused like in the NFL where defensive players take turns getting injured to stop momentum.
Soccer might go on for five minutes without a whistle.
Basketball is probably not going to go 60 seconds. And if it’s that serious, refs can blow the play dead.
Let the other team score then call a timeout. Or foul the other team so you can get your guy off the court.
Anything else makes no sense. Guys will start falling on the floor and pretending to be hurt just to stop the other team‘s fast break.
Eh it’s not like soccer. There are plenty of 5 on 4s in a normal nba game and if players think the injury is serious they can always foul to force a dead ball. Many times one basket doesn’t determine the outcome of a game anyway, so sometimes they’ll just play on until there’s a basket or a missed shot. If it’s a genuine, gruesome injury and the refs/players see it, usually the play is blown dead.
The thing is that the players don’t know how serious the injury is so they can’t just stop. If the injured player only have a minor injury( sprained ankle) they should be able to get up and still play. Unless there is a visible broken arm, leg, and or blood pouring out then no one is going to stop right there and then.
go google carmelo anthony play
Yo I will say this happened to me once while playing pickup and I thought I was going to die
I was of course totally fine 20 minutes later after rolling around the ground like a fat white embiidish whale that I am.
That shit hurt bad. Then it didn’t hurt at all. Kind of weird.