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PHLY Philadelphia Sixers Podcast

PHLY Sixers Postgame: Joel Embiid injures face in Sixers loss to Pacers

PHLY Philadelphia Sixers Podcast

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4.7631 Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2024

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Joel Embiid (12 points, five assists and four rebounds in 17 minutes) was hit in the face before halftime of the Philadelphia 76ers game on Friday night, went into the locker room and never returned. The team announced that Embiid would not be available due to an "impact to right side of face." The Sixers trailed 61-50 at the half.

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0:00.0

Well, yes, as we see it right there.

0:17.6

Ah, man, not again.

0:19.8

Just as they, it looked like they were rolling to, all right,

0:24.2

here we go, two games in a row for the three stars available for a basketball game. And Joel

0:30.6

and Bede gets injured right before the half against the Indiana Pacers. Sixes down 11, catches a smack to the face. I can't say that it was

0:39.6

an elbow, but it looks like it was just a coming down, a follow-through from Ben Matherin of the

0:45.7

Indiana Pacers, smacks him in the face. And as we know with Jewel and Bede, multiple facial

0:50.5

injuries in the past from the orbital bone fracture from Mark L. Foltz years ago,

0:55.3

the Pascal Seacum elbow to the orbital of the face. Once again, you have to take that

1:01.2

seriously if he gets hit in any part of the face with that type of force. He did not return to

1:06.8

the game. The Sixers lose 121, 107, and they are now 7 and 16 on the season. Welcome to the

1:14.0

PHLY Sixers Postgame show presented by Bet365 and download the Bet365 at Use Code

1:21.5

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1:26.4

more about them in a little bit.

1:28.1

Rich Hoffman, Divine Givens. Brianna's here producing, Chris hanging out with us here, our social media coordinator, all of you in the chat as we've been here before to discuss another Joelle and Bean injury. We'll check in with Kyle and Derek from the arena as the show goes along. we'll give our player of the week, so on and so forth,

1:26.2

as we typically do for a postgame show. We'll get to

1:48.7

Rich's three takeaways, but just right out of the gate, Rich, your thoughts that the game was

1:55.1

flowing the way the game was flowing, but it wasn't out of hand. And then that happens. And it seems like it's another deflating thing that just takes the energy out of the building. And they got it back a little bit later as they crawled back into it. They got back into the game. But in the moment and going into the locker room in the way that the Indiana paces started the third quarter, another deflating injury.

2:20.5

Yeah, I mean, this is the why can't we have nice things season.

2:20.8

Yes.

2:26.3

And I don't want to excuse that first half because they really stunk in that first half tonight.

2:27.2

It was bad.

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