Gutted. Mad. Disappointed. Fed up.
Our own Paul Hudrick put it best: “There’s no other way to say it: it was an organizational failure that Joel Embiid took the floor against Golden State. Nobody should escape blame for what we all witnessed.”
Before the season began, I hosted Embiid’s trainer Drew Hanlen on a pod and he revealed that on the night Joel won his MVP last spring, Joel told Hanlen “man, to be honest with ya, I’d give back this MVP just to have a healthy postseason.”
Now this.