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Joel Embiid is out for the rest of the season. What if this is it?

February 28, 2025

Joel Embiid putting his face inside of his jersey.

Feb 20, 2025; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid (21) wipes his face during a break in the third quarter against the Boston Celtics at Wells Fargo Center. Mandatory Credit: Bill Streicher-Imagn Images

Two hours after they wrapped practice in Camden on Friday afternoon, the Sixers announced what everyone had already been expecting — Joel Embiid is out for the rest of the 2024-25 season. Anyone with two functioning eyes and an interest in basketball could see the problems he carried all season, and in the end, one last impotent performance against the Brooklyn Nets was enough to draw a line in the sand.
It has been a failure of a season before the year even began. As the Sixers insisted Embiid was on schedule and progressing as expected coming out of training camp, they would eventually have to concede that he would miss their opening game, and then seven more games after that (including th...

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