Well, it came down earlier this afternoon that you all need would be out in the night's game against Houston Rockets with what was deemed at the time to be an illness.

But this is the Sixers.

So it was never quite as straightforward as

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It came out earlier this afternoon that Joel Embedde has been diagnosed with appendicitis

and will undergo surgery this afternoon in Houston.

Obviously, then further updates will be provided as appropriate.

And, you know, look, I guess, first of all, obviously starts off with, like,

Hope Jewel has a speed recovery, no complications, nothing like that.

And feel bad for him that he could end up missing.

I don't even know.

I haven't, frankly, Google appendicitis.

This is another one that I don't exactly know the ins and outs of

the recovery on. But I really thought that their ability to surprise me at this time of year,

whether it's Bell's palsy, whether it's orbital fractures, multiple orbital fractures.

I didn't think that I could be surprised. This one definitely caught me off guard.

Yeah. So first of all, thoughts are with Joel.

It's one of those, like the first thing you think of when you hear this is that it just never ends for him.

And he's talked about the weight, the mental weight that's on him with all the injuries that he suffered,

like to go through the recovery process again and again. And you hear in his voice when he talks

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