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Smallwood: Hard not to be skeptical about Embiid's return

IF YOU'RE a 76ers fan, you'd like to take the optimistic view that this time the organization is correct about the timetable for Joel Embiid's return from surgery.

On Friday, the hard-luck center had surgery to repair a meniscus tear in his left knee.

The Sixers appear to have exhausted all resources in searching for the best solution to treat their prized big man who will have missed 215 of the possible 246 games he could have played since being drafted third overall in 2014.

The prognosis was positive. Neal S. ElAttrache, the surgeon who performed the procedure on Embiid at the Kerlan-Jobe Orthopedic Clinic in Los Angeles, said he should transition into "full weight-bearing in approximately two weeks.