76ers coach Nick Nurse said there are no plans to shut down Joel Embiid after he was forced to the locker room in the second quarter after injuring his knee.
at Madison Square Garden in Game 1 of their best-of-7 first round series that there are no plans to shut the league's reigning MVP down."I think he absolutely wants to play."
But when Embiid came down, he landed on his left leg and immediately went down to the ground. Play continued, with the Knicks getting a layup at the other end, before Philadelphia could call timeout and take a look at him.
"I knew when I went in at half time that they were checking him out," Nurse said."And that he was up and moving. And they did say we are seeing. They didn't rule him out yet. They just took him all the way to the end there to get him ruled back in."
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