Philly’s Joel Embiid can make Game 7 an inside job

When last Joel Embiid was seen exiting the playing surface in Toronto in the wake of the Raptors’ blowout win in Game 5, the Philadelphia centre glanced at the hip-hop star standing courtside and offered a promise.

“I’ll be back,” Embiid said to Drake on Tuesday night.

So give the Sixers’ seven-footer his due. He may be a walking soap opera who has spent this series nursing a bad knee, a wobbly stomach, a high fever, a stuffy nose and a chronic case of sleep deprivation, and certainly his team has been handicapped by his seemingly ever-questionable status.