The euphoric feeling from Game 3 dissipated when the news about Joel Embiid’s knee landed Friday night. Imagine if it was 2-1 instead of 3-0. Embiid‘s injury makes Thursday's win loom even larger for the Sixers, inkstainedretch writes.
It will be remembered mostly for an off-target kick, a bull’s-eye smack, and flagrant disregard for family jewelry, but the Sixers’It was a game that saw Joel Embiid. Embiid left the court and went to the locker room at least twice when he came out of the game in his normal pattern of substitution. The report was optimistic that Embiid might miss only one or two games, but it’s more realistic that he’ll miss the rest of the series.
? Not Thursday. On Thursday, Rivers marshaled an existential effort from a team whose leaders led in nothing but cheap shots and absence. Given the huge, looming absence, Rivers will have to marshal the best of the rest again.Embiid’s kick at Nic Claxton’s groin early that might have gotten Embiid tossed; it was deemed a flagrant 1. James Harden’s jockstrap smack on Royce O’Neale late in the third quarter was a flagrant 2, which earns an ejection.
Harden dropped 21 points and was cooking when, at the beginning of a move to the basket, he made contact with O’Neale’s midsection.hitting O’Neale in the groin
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