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00:00Good news is you now get paid to go to Sixers games.
00:04You can sit nine rows from the court for like $12.
00:09Can you really?
00:10Yeah.
00:11Yeah.
00:12Good God.
00:13All right.
00:14So your reaction on the Embiid stuff.
00:16The two reports over the weekend from Shams 176ers and Jewel are consulting doctors and
00:20considering alternative options on his injured knee.
00:23Sources tell ESPN sides have hoped for progress in Embiid's body, but his efforts to play
00:29in current treatment, including injections, have not provided any improvement.
00:33Second tweet from Shams.
00:34This was last night.
00:35He said Embiid has scored 15 or fewer points in consecutive games for the first time in
00:40almost four years and again experienced swelling in his left knee after Saturday's home loss
00:45to the Brooklyn Nets, sources said.
00:47Let's listen to Nick Nurse.
00:48You know, Nick Nurse talked after Saturday's game.
00:51Obviously, Jewel didn't play the fourth quarter.
00:53A lot of people saw it as a benching.
00:55I saw it not quite.
00:56I mean, look, it might have been.
00:57But I viewed it more like they just knew and Nick Nurse knew that Jewel was mercy.
01:00Yeah, I thought it was mercy, too.
01:01He couldn't answer the bell.
01:02Couldn't do it.
01:03It was amazing to me how much he got reported as a pure benching.
01:06Like, I don't know about that.
01:09Here's Nick Nurse Saturday after Embiid had not played the second, the fourth quarter.
01:15This was in some ways a compliment, but really, really reveals that it's just diminishing
01:21returns because he's trying his best out there.
01:25He might not have tried his best in all the rehabs through the years, but trying his best
01:28while out there.
01:29Here's Nick Nurse Saturday night.
01:30He's giving us what he can.
01:31Right?
01:32I don't, you know, obviously he doesn't feel like he's not himself.
01:35We all know that.
01:36He's not certainly the guy that we're used to seeing play at a super high level.
01:40But I commend him for giving us what he can.
01:43What a mess.
01:44What a mess.
01:45I mean, if that's the best he can give, then that's the best he can give, which means shut
01:47him down.
01:48And this, this one.
01:49End the season.
01:50The charade.
01:51Yeah.
01:52Try to get the draft pick.
01:53I mean, if the Sixers draft pick is top six protected, they currently have the sixth worst
01:57record in basketball.
01:58They're like right on that line.
01:59So try to keep the pick because you're not going anywhere.
02:02I mean, if anything, maybe you get, you know, into the top eight, you know, grouping and
02:05you lose in the first round.
02:07I mean, there's no way Joel's going to be able to play in late April, you know, four
02:10games in eight days.
02:12There's no way.
02:13And play well.
02:14Think about that.
02:15There's no way.
02:16There's no way.
02:17Think about that.
02:18This, this game on Saturday.
02:19Think about the, the rest that, think about the, the, the, the opportunity he had to just
02:23gather himself prior.
02:26And it looked the way that it looks.
02:27It's awful.
02:28So we'll take your reaction on the Sixers stuff.
02:31And you know, I know a lot of people are moving toward tanking, which I am like, okay, get
02:35back to that.
02:36But I'm also, I don't want to lose sight of the disgust factor.
02:38Could you even, I don't want to just let them off the hook and say, think about him trying
02:42to go out there like in a, in a series, think about how absurd that would be.
02:48It's just impossible.
02:49Can't do it.
02:50Like we have a star who is incapable of getting out there, I don't know, a couple of times
02:55a week.
02:56Guys, it is possible.
02:57He's played 19 games or something.
02:59Is that what it is?
03:00Something like that.
03:01We do every year, we do our top 10 players in Philadelphia sports and it is possible
03:04he may never again be a top 10 player in Philly sports.
03:07He may just not be able to be that anymore.
03:10He may not.
03:11All right.
03:12Your thoughts on.
03:13That's the most ability of every, every athlete that we're talking about.
03:18You can't harness it anymore.
03:19You can't harness it.
03:20Right.
03:21What an incredible shame.
03:22It's a tragedy.
03:23It is a tragedy, but it may also be a Greek tragedy that he created it.
03:26Yeah.
03:27So, you know, it may not be, it may just be bad luck, but it may be.
03:29A tragedy based in hubris?
03:31Maybe.
03:32Yeah.
03:33No, hubris was, was a big part of the Greek tragedy thing.