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PHLY Philadelphia Sixers Podcast

Bonus: Joel Embiid Blames Daryl Morey For Wizards Absence

PHLY Philadelphia Sixers Podcast

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4.7631 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2026

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Joel Embiid points to Daryl Morey when asked why he didn't play basketball Wednesday night against the Wizards. The PHLY Sixers crew shares their thoughts.

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0:00.0

All right, we need to talk about this Joel and B thing with how he was after the game on, what was that, on Friday night, where the Sixers beat the Minnesota Timberwolves.

0:10.2

They improved to eight games, or pardon me, nine games over 500 at that time.

0:15.0

And with it, Joel talked about not being able to play Derek in the game against the Washington Wizards on Wednesday.

0:22.3

Frustrated that he could not play, he took the social media, he called out Darry

0:27.3

by name, and that one was not as bad as the James Harden thing. No. But he called him out

0:34.2

and talking about, I don't know what's going on and so on and so forth.

0:55.8

You were there. Can you take us in the locker room with it? There was a lot of reaction nationally after you put that video out there of Joel and Bede saying what he said. And also, he did not play in the second night of a back-to-back on Saturday night in their loss to the Pistons. Yeah. So he basically, you know, when he was asked about it, because he was, you know, he missed the Wednesday game. That was a game that he did not

1:00.5

play in. So Friday, we asked him about it. He basically said, like, look, I was still sick. You know,

1:06.8

he was sick against the heat on Monday. I remained sick on Wednesday, but he said he was feeling

1:12.2

better. So he said he didn't go to sleep until like five or six in the morning the day of the game.

1:17.1

Because of that, he wasn't able to make shoot around. And he ended up finding out that he wasn't

1:21.3

then going to play that night on social media, not from the team, not from, you know, anyone

1:26.2

like that, not from a text or call by

1:29.2

seeing a tweet on social media. And he said that really pissed him off. You know, he went on

1:33.9

to say that I wasn't allowed to play basketball. I think this is more of a question for you

1:38.9

to ask Daryl Morey. He then added, and whoever makes the decisions. So, you know, he added a little bit there as well.

1:47.0

Nick Nurse also didn't know anything, you know.

1:50.0

Nick never knows anything about any injury.

1:51.7

Yeah, okay.

1:53.5

You know, look, I think a couple things.

1:57.5

You know, if you're not going to make a shoot around,

2:00.5

then I think it was his responsibility to inform them that he was too going to make a shoot around then i think it was his responsibility to inform

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