What began with the most exciting offseason of the Joel Embiid Era in Philly has devolved into chaos -- with no easy answers in sight.
president of basketball operations is on the left, dressed in all black with a blue suit jacket. General manager Elton Brand has his arm around him. Free agent forward, wearing sweat shorts and an Allen Iverson T-shirt, has his arms around owner Josh Harris and assistant general manager Peter Dinwiddie.
Already this season, Embiid, the 2023 NBA MVP, responded to critics who questioned his desire to play, saying,"I've done way too much for this f---ing city to be treated like this. Days later, Embiid was suspended three games by the league for shoving a reporter who mentioned Embiid's son and late brother in a critical column.
At heart, Morey is a man of analytics and strategy. Each year he builds a team that he believes gives them the best probability to win a championship. His formula for calculating that probability is proprietary, but championship contenders usually have a 5-10% chance of winning -- except the dynastic Warriors, whom Morey's formula once had at close to 70% to win a title after they added
Both the team and Embiid hoped his troublesome knee would be healthy enough to start the season, sources said. Yet week after week, the Sixers would issue updates that he was still out, but they were hopeful he'd be ready soon. The harsher pills to swallow are the face-to-face confrontations with characters from Philadelphia's past such as Harden, who dropped a cool 23 points and eight assists in three quarters against his former team Sunday evening.
In another cruel coincidence, all of the other teams the Sixers seemed to beat in the offseason when they landed George have thrived thus far. The Clippers have overachieved at 11-7. The Warriors, who made a spirited play to trade for George, are leading the Western Conference at 12-4. The New York Knicks, who league sources said opted to trade for, who has become a leading contender for Rookie of the Year after being pressed into service by the injuries to Maxey and veteran guard.
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