With the regular season coming to an end for the Philadelphia 76ers in a few days, the focus now goes towards the NBA Draft Lottery, 2015 NBA Draft and the NBA Summer League. Sixers head coach Brett Brown has his focus set on the summer league for rookie big man Joel Embiid, who sat out this entire season recovering from a foot injury.
But Brown did admit that it will ‘personally’ be a disappointment if Embiid does not play this summer.
Here is more from Keith Pompey of the Philadelphia Inquirer:
Brett Brown said he “personally” would be disappointed if Joel Embiid didn’t play in the summer league.
“Personally, I expect him to play in the summer league,” Brown said. “But if I guessed any of this wrong, I want to make sure that the club is on record not being definitive. We are not in the position to say that now.”
Brown raised a few eyebrows Wednesday when he would not commit on whether the 7-foot rookie center would play this summer. Embiid has missed the entire season as he recovers from right foot surgery.
“I just feel like it’s too definitive if we come out and say he’s definitely playing now,” he explain on Friday. “It’s not so much any trepidation I have to 100 percent declare it. I don’t feel like it’s responsible to say that now. He’s heading in that direction.”
Brown is not trying to definitely say that Embiid is playing in the summer but we all know that he is probably healthy at this point. We see it in pregame workouts; Embiid is hitting jump shots and throwing down monster dunks.
If I was a betting man, I would bet that Embiid is playing this summer but I could be wrong as the Sixers need to keep this rebuilding process moving along.
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