The Sixers have a tricky tightrope to traverse over the final week-and-a-half of the 2022-23 NBA regular season.
Joel Embiid is neck-and-neck with Nikola Jokic to win his first Most Valuable Player award, while the Sixers are jockeying with the Milwaukee Bucks, Boston Celtics and Cleveland Cavaliers for playoff seeding. However, both Embiid (calf) and star guard James Harden (Achilles) are nursing injuries that have caused each of them to miss recent games.
While the Sixers might be tempted to trot Embiid and Harden out for a final MVP push or a last-gasp shot at the No.