It's official: Joel Embiid will play in the Philadelphia Sixers' final preseason game against the Timberwolves on Friday night. Assuming all goes well, he'll be available for the Sixers' season-opener on Wednesday in Boston (don't get your hopes up about that yet). His return will answer a question that has been on everyone's mind, and the answer may not be what Sixers fans were hoping for.
The answer won't come in a preseason game, as it's Embiid's first game since undergoing knee surgery in February. He won't be pushing it up and down the court, throwing down dunks, and fighting for every single rebound.