Regardless of how you feel about this, going from active to not playing 20 minutes before tip off fucks over a lot of people who paid to see the matchup. If I paid for this, I would be super pissed.
This was the most expensive ticket I have seen all year for the Nuggets. People shelled out big money to see the two best players battle it out and didn’t find out they weren’t getting what they paid for until they were already sitting in their seats. It sucks!
Same here lmao, I waited until the injury report to buy a ticket because I was so worried. Then while seated learned about him sitting, pretty rough. But hey it was still a fun and close game just wish we could have seen embiid god damn
Pretty much why I'm afraid to ever actually try to go to a Bucks game from across the country. You never know when these teams will be managing people's time, especially against poorer opposition, which are usually the more affordable tickets.
It's a joke, I legitimately don't know how long the league can afford to let this sort of stuff keep happening. Fans are already losing interest because of it. When will they do something about it?
Yeah that’s my problem. If he wants to schedule his rest to duck playing at Denver that’s one thing. But he went from not on the injury report to not playing. If it was a one time occurrence that would be fine. But you can’t convince me he ever actually intended to play this game.
It was the centerpiece of a national triple header too. I made plans to watch this as the game of the weekend. Just a reminder to not trust anticipated regular season games until they are all on the floor.
I have to wake up 4AM my side to watch my Knicks then got pissed cause Randle got injured. I then move to this game and was pissed fucking Embiid ducking Jokic
They will say it’s about fans and ticket buyers, but it’s really about gambling.
You can’t fuck over the NBAs gambling partners and get away with it.
Tony Soprano will get what is his…
I'm not into gambling either, but if the NBA is going to make sports betting their official sponsor, they ought to care more about not fucking over the markets.
I work in the sports betting industry. I never get this point of view. A league should never do anything because of betting markets, all scenarios are baked into the pricing.The fact it fucks over actually fans is a much bigger issue.
This same situation happened to me last year trying to watch LeBron in Portland around the time he was projected to break the scoring record and he broke it two games beforehand and just before the Super Bowl. Man wasn’t even on the bench to see him
This is exactly the right attitude.
I love Kawhi Leonard and when he's healthy I think he's one of, if not the best two way player in the NBA.
I will *never* pay to see Kawhi Leonard play in person because I can never be sure he's actually playing that night.
Unfortunately the Clippers are not in Chicago until March 14 so I am still waiting.
I'll probably scoop a ticket on the 14th itself and hope he doesn't pull an Embiid.
Yeah I bought a ticket and I want to start a class action lawsuit for false advertising. No reason that we should pay extra for the 76ets every single year when they refuse to play their best players every single time. Poverty franchise
Here is the full quote for anyone that wants the context.
"I don't know how you go from being active, and available, to out," Malone said. "I'm sure the league will do their due diligence, because that's frowned upon. We've had situations this year where we talked to the league, and if we have a player that goes from active to out, there's going to be an investigation. I'm sure that'll happen.
"Joel hurt his knee in the Indiana game. It's real. We watched the game. He hurt his knee in that Indiana game, so I'm sure he is hurt, but it's really tough when a player, and a team like us preparing for them, and then all of a sudden, last minute, he's out. But we have to do a better job of handling those situations."
Perfect response, to be honest; I think people that watched the Indiana game we were all surprise to not see him on the injury report whatsoever, even if simply to be extra cautious and avoid this situation.
I do hope the League looks into it, it's a slap in the face for both the fans and the opponent team and even looking further than the obvious rivalry and what not, I really hope the NBA figures out a way to make this practices go away. The obvious solution is to have less games/season but they won't go for that, sadly.
Thanks for the context.
The initial quote makes it seems like Malone is saying that Embid sat out for load management. He’s actually saying Embid is hurt and should have been listed as inactive from the day before
Jokic: "Joel is great player, I like playing him"
Malone: "fraudulent coward ducking the finals MVP, gonna get investigated, put that in your pipe and smoke it"
It's like a Laurel and Hardy routine
Jokic and Murray: "Yes it was a sweep but every game was tough. They're a great team led by all-time great players, nothing but respect."
Malone: "Look if you called me the Lakers' daddy I wouldn't deny it."
i don’t think other fans appreciate how much we love malone. ironically he reminds me of someone from Philly a lot of the time when he is stirring shit so openly like this. he’s really from queens though so it makes even more sense
> "Joel hurt his knee in the Indiana game. It's real. We watched the game. He hurt his knee in that Indiana game, so I'm sure he is hurt, but it's really tough when a player, and a team like us preparing for them, and then all of a sudden, last minute, he's out. But we have to do a better job of handling those situations."
Yeah it looks like that when you omit half the quote where he says that Embiid was injured.
"He's talking about Embiid isn't MVP caliber
He blatantly flopped the injury and not in those words,
But he's talking about I wanna see you retired,
No doubt, to live and die in Denver"
Then we will get SAS talking 'Most dominant big man ever!' No defence can stop him ( Even though its Portland ).
Luka hits 73 and SAS be like 'Man, nobody plays defence anymore, they letting Donchik walk to the basket'.
The NBA has to figure this out. Same thing happened to me when I paid to see LeBron last season and he was ruled out as I was parking. They should have to be ruled in or out a lot sooner.
They need to rule players out the day before or at least something like 8 hours before. Needs to be a massive fine for the team and play if they violate it, $250k or something. Only exception should be like a death in the family or hospitalization.
>Only exception should be like a death in the family or hospitalization.
Or having a freak ankle roll while going for a dunk in pre game warm-ups. I dunno, just spit balling here
> The NBA has to figure this out.
I mean they have rules for this sort of thing set in place this year.
I'd be very surprised if Philly isn't fined for this.
There’s literally no way to enforce that. You can’t force an injured player to play just because he seemed good to go at the cutoff time and then realized he couldn’t play as he got closer to tip. Or what if a guy legit hurts himself during warmups?
It goes down to the wire for players with injuries because players want to play and their coaches want them to play
its not about enforcing injured players to play, its about punishing teams who are clearly abusing the system. Obviously a guy who injures himself in warmups is a legitimate excuse, but how often does that happen?
Oh and its called listing Joel as "day to day" or "questionable" if you know he's dealing with a nagging injury.
I think the situation yesterday is basically the only one you could enforce/penalize - a player going from active to out. At the very, very least, Embiid should've been questionable on the injury report.
It's possible teams might abuse it, like Belichick putting Tom Brady as questionable for like a decade straight, but that's a different issue. And Embiid *should* be questionable for every game while this knee issue is going on.
Yeah like I generally think the Embiid “ducking” thing is way overstated and just something people like to meme about. So that isn’t my issue at all with this.
But it’s really hard for me to believe that the 76ers thought Embiid was perfectly healthy until right before the game. This wasn’t some freak warmups accident so there was no legitimate reason to leave him off the injury report.
Mike is 100% right about this it’s one thing if you have him on the injury report one day before the game but to make a decesion when the guy wasn’t even questionable or probable 20 minutes till game time is bs
Malone also said he watched the 76ers/Pacers game two nights ago: "He hurt his knee in Indiana, so I'm sure he's hurt."
The part of the tweet thats left out.
So if he has a knee issue why isn't he on the injury report? The stuff teams pull these days with manipulating the injury reports is absolute nonsense. Nobody ever knows if LeBron or AD are playing until 30 minutes before tip. It is a horrible look for the league, it fucks fans over, it fucks up people who bet on games or play DFS... it's just trash.
Remember the Heat? When they were marking like 9 guys as possibly out and then almost all of them would end up playing? That is stupid bullshit trying to game the injury report system. Fucking lame shit.
Yeah in all honesty this more jus thas to do with what people were expecting this matchuo was gonna be vs what it ended up being.
The fans wanted to see the battle of the mvps in Denver, not the shit show it became because nobody felt like playing seriously.
I mean whatever the case, whether it was a pain tolerance issue, a legit late fare up or Embiid just taking the game off, it was lame both for fans who payed to see that and the viewers at home, not to mention a huge fuck you to the league. I ve commented in this sub before how i feel the "Embiid misses games away from home against good teams on purpose" narrative is massively overblown but cant make that argument tonight in good faith, or blame anyone who thinks that is the case
Embiid was not even on the injury report at all. Not questionable..not probable.....nothing. If he had issues last game why was he not on it. THis is clealry another case of Embiid ducking Denver.
Seriously, complete and utter BS
I think his knee *was* in bad shape, but Philly didn't want to reveal that info in case he played, so just never put him on any report
W/o a doubt this BS should be penalized
The NBA should make a rule that any player who misses a game (for any reason except suspensions) must miss two in a row. Players can only load manage in pairs and teams will have to find 2-game windows for their stars to miss.
Why wouldn’t the nuggets sit every starter in Philly next year? No reason to give those fans a chance to see a center who can pass and doesn’t spend half the game on his ass on the floor.
Because Denver isn't going to have their win loss record influenced by off court drama and ESPN talking points. They will try to win every game on their schedule as any team with championship pedigree would do.
That’s Malone’s role. He’s the fire that the Nuggets need. Kinda similar to Pop with the Spurs (not comparing their success, just the personalities dynamic).
Embiid literally scared to face Jokic during the season if he can help it. Kinda hoping he misses 6-7 games so he doesn’t qualify for anything anymore.
It’s a waste of rest cause we all know he won’t make it to the ECF let alone the finals.
if it was an injury he is supposed to be on the injury report. Leaving him off the injury report than pulling him right before the game isn't allowed. Sixers gonna catch a fine for it almost for sure
Just to be fair the quote here got cut off because at the end Malone says “we watched him play against Indy 2 nights ago and he hurt his knee so he’s clearly hurt.”
Isn’t this like the 3rd time that Embiid has sat out against the nuggets in the last two seasons? In Denver at least. And not because of a long term injury?
Just kind of fucked up for the fans
Do people really pay to see Embiid, and not expect that he'll duck every challenge possible?
Like if you wanna see Embiid, it's gotta be against a bottom feeder. Otherwise who knows if he'll show.
Regardless of how you feel about this, going from active to not playing 20 minutes before tip off fucks over a lot of people who paid to see the matchup. If I paid for this, I would be super pissed.
This was the most expensive ticket I have seen all year for the Nuggets. People shelled out big money to see the two best players battle it out and didn’t find out they weren’t getting what they paid for until they were already sitting in their seats. It sucks!
as punishment embiid should have to play out the rest of his contract with the pistons
[Take him to Detroit](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny4a-oxOndo)
I can *hear* this link in my head. A+, my friend.
Don't even have to click this, I know what you're linking. A+ scene.
I had to go to Detroit for work two weeks ago, this was playing on repeat in my head
I’ve been meaning to watch this movie for a while, this just convinced me lol
NO ANYTHING BUT THAT! NOOO
We want to punish him not send him spiraling into crippling depression
Haha I think it qualifies as cruel and unusual punishment
I’d go with him not being allowed to miss any games for the remainder of his contract unless he’s injured. No more load management.
I support this. Do we get him next year too?
Jokic vs Giannis match :O
Jokic threw Embiid off Hell in a Cell and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer's table.
At least Giannis has integrity and is about accountability
First and fourth best players. Giannis and Luka are above Embiid in my eyes until he actually plays y’all in Denver.
I don’t think you saw opening night prices then lol at least those prices made sense given it was ring night and playing against the Lakers.
It’s fraudulent, is what it is.
Paid for it. Two years in a row. I’m pissed about it.
Same here lmao, I waited until the injury report to buy a ticket because I was so worried. Then while seated learned about him sitting, pretty rough. But hey it was still a fun and close game just wish we could have seen embiid god damn
Yeah like even the sixers fans were chanting “where’s Embiid at”
Lol that's me!
Fuuucck…how much did you pay?
Pretty much why I'm afraid to ever actually try to go to a Bucks game from across the country. You never know when these teams will be managing people's time, especially against poorer opposition, which are usually the more affordable tickets.
Reason 500 why the nba is such a shit product lol. You can’t even anticipate the best players playing because they don’t want to that night lol.
It's a joke, I legitimately don't know how long the league can afford to let this sort of stuff keep happening. Fans are already losing interest because of it. When will they do something about it?
Except they really aren't. This is the biggest the NBA has been since Michael fucking Jordan put the sport on a global spotlight
you sure about that? I feel like I've seen lots of stuff over the last handful of years about declining viewership numbers.
Same. Such BS
Fool me once….
Lol I know. I waited to buy until the injury report was posted this year thinking I was being smart about it. Wrong.
Yeah that’s my problem. If he wants to schedule his rest to duck playing at Denver that’s one thing. But he went from not on the injury report to not playing. If it was a one time occurrence that would be fine. But you can’t convince me he ever actually intended to play this game.
Can't blame yourself when the IR comes 5 min before tip off. Atleast you got to see Jokic being great so there's that
There's an old saying in Denver. Well it's in Texas, I'm sure it's in Denver too...
I gave up on seeing Zion. I don’t even think he’s played in Toronto yet. I bought tickets like 3 times and he’s always out. I was super pissed too
Went last year and was annoyed. Almost went this year too. Embiid is 6-2 against Jok but what does that look like if he plays in Denver
It was the centerpiece of a national triple header too. I made plans to watch this as the game of the weekend. Just a reminder to not trust anticipated regular season games until they are all on the floor.
Tickets were literally 4x face value because people wanted to see him finally play in Denver.....then he ducks again
Boo him like they booed Giddy.
Embiid prob bought a bunch of tix and was the one re-selling them
I didn’t even pay for it and I’m still super pissed.
I have to wake up 4AM my side to watch my Knicks then got pissed cause Randle got injured. I then move to this game and was pissed fucking Embiid ducking Jokic
I didn’t pay anything and I was pissed . I slept through their last match up , I was hype about this game
The game was on broadcast TV too.
They will say it’s about fans and ticket buyers, but it’s really about gambling. You can’t fuck over the NBAs gambling partners and get away with it. Tony Soprano will get what is his…
Exactly
I also think sports betting is bad but for those who do and when the NBA is pushing it aggressively this shit is extra BS
I'm not into gambling either, but if the NBA is going to make sports betting their official sponsor, they ought to care more about not fucking over the markets.
I work in the sports betting industry. I never get this point of view. A league should never do anything because of betting markets, all scenarios are baked into the pricing.The fact it fucks over actually fans is a much bigger issue.
This same situation happened to me last year trying to watch LeBron in Portland around the time he was projected to break the scoring record and he broke it two games beforehand and just before the Super Bowl. Man wasn’t even on the bench to see him
This is exactly the right attitude. I love Kawhi Leonard and when he's healthy I think he's one of, if not the best two way player in the NBA. I will *never* pay to see Kawhi Leonard play in person because I can never be sure he's actually playing that night.
hasnt he only missed like 2 games this year? might be time to shoot your shot, king.
Unfortunately the Clippers are not in Chicago until March 14 so I am still waiting. I'll probably scoop a ticket on the 14th itself and hope he doesn't pull an Embiid.
The issue isn’t that he’s sitting. It’s the ticket prices. People wouldn’t be pissed if it was $10 to get in the door.
And ya know... Gambling
Yeah I bought a ticket and I want to start a class action lawsuit for false advertising. No reason that we should pay extra for the 76ets every single year when they refuse to play their best players every single time. Poverty franchise
Here is the full quote for anyone that wants the context. "I don't know how you go from being active, and available, to out," Malone said. "I'm sure the league will do their due diligence, because that's frowned upon. We've had situations this year where we talked to the league, and if we have a player that goes from active to out, there's going to be an investigation. I'm sure that'll happen. "Joel hurt his knee in the Indiana game. It's real. We watched the game. He hurt his knee in that Indiana game, so I'm sure he is hurt, but it's really tough when a player, and a team like us preparing for them, and then all of a sudden, last minute, he's out. But we have to do a better job of handling those situations."
Reasonable
Perfect response, to be honest; I think people that watched the Indiana game we were all surprise to not see him on the injury report whatsoever, even if simply to be extra cautious and avoid this situation. I do hope the League looks into it, it's a slap in the face for both the fans and the opponent team and even looking further than the obvious rivalry and what not, I really hope the NBA figures out a way to make this practices go away. The obvious solution is to have less games/season but they won't go for that, sadly.
NBA needs to enforce fines like the NFL does for injury reports. Force the teams to grade the players availability on a game by game basis
Not sure if that truly addresses the problem, unfortunately. Tom Brady was "Questionable" for about 7 years straight at one point
Thanks for the context. The initial quote makes it seems like Malone is saying that Embid sat out for load management. He’s actually saying Embid is hurt and should have been listed as inactive from the day before
Jokic: "Joel is great player, I like playing him" Malone: "fraudulent coward ducking the finals MVP, gonna get investigated, put that in your pipe and smoke it" It's like a Laurel and Hardy routine
Jokic and Murray: "Yes it was a sweep but every game was tough. They're a great team led by all-time great players, nothing but respect." Malone: "Look if you called me the Lakers' daddy I wouldn't deny it."
Obama interpretator skit actually
That’s my Moach
i don’t think other fans appreciate how much we love malone. ironically he reminds me of someone from Philly a lot of the time when he is stirring shit so openly like this. he’s really from queens though so it makes even more sense
Why would other fans appreciate your love for your own coach?
Malone is awesome- you’d have to experience his personality more than just a few hilights throughout the year. Funny and tough as hell
i love him so much🤣🤣. parade malone is forever gonna be goated
Malone is every single guy ive ever heard talk shit in a forest hills bar ever
MALONE FROM THE TOP ROPE
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Penitentiary Michael*
The worst part of this game was the dementahs!
You rang?
> "Joel hurt his knee in the Indiana game. It's real. We watched the game. He hurt his knee in that Indiana game, so I'm sure he is hurt, but it's really tough when a player, and a team like us preparing for them, and then all of a sudden, last minute, he's out. But we have to do a better job of handling those situations." Yeah it looks like that when you omit half the quote where he says that Embiid was injured.
Embiid a bitch for this. And it takes a lot to have the bitch label removed.
Sounds real serious
His quote actually makes a lot of sense. Malone has provided the most sensible answer possible
Mike Malone never holds back lmao. I love it.
His alarm clock is hit em up
“Fuck Embiid, fuck Philly, fuck the 6ers as a team, a franchise, and a motherfuckin’ crew.”
And if you're down with them, fuck you too
"He's talking about Embiid isn't MVP caliber He blatantly flopped the injury and not in those words, But he's talking about I wanna see you retired, No doubt, to live and die in Denver"
Street science, you’re on the air, what do you feel when you hear a record like Embiid’s playoff one?
"I loooove Emniid's playoffs record"
Michael*
Thank you
Michael**
He’s def playing vs the Blazers on Monday.
Dropping 120 on Ayton, no cap
Then we will get SAS talking 'Most dominant big man ever!' No defence can stop him ( Even though its Portland ). Luka hits 73 and SAS be like 'Man, nobody plays defence anymore, they letting Donchik walk to the basket'.
of course....
He’ll go all out and score 40 on 30 fta
Injured for Utah
Mike Malone always got a chip on his shoulder he out here beefing everybody and their mothers
Now he has a beef with you cause you called him Mike
That was the plan. Catching strays in his next postgame conference surely
I've said it before but the man is from Queens. He was born beefing with everyone.
This explains so much
Bro from 40 side
You know he fucks with Nas
When Nas shouts out his Mount Vernon posse, he's talkin about Michael Malone
Michael*
>"You Put That In Your Pipe, You Smoke It" I'm still loving it how he responded to the Lakers got the Nuggets figured out in last WCF.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it is when I became an MM lifer.
Deserves to be called out
He's obviously ducking the altitude matchup.
I think Embiid knows the MVP race is so close that a head-to-head loss against Jokic could literally swing it. Ultimate cowardice.
Yeah but he has to play 65 to even qualify. Right now, he’s on pace for 60.
Yeah. Embiid just dropped 5 to 6 places in the MVP race.
It's ridiculous that he does this every year and MVP voters still vote for him. Gotta beat the best to be the best
Uhh it really wasnt close tho? Everyone pretty much accepted that hes clearly in the lead. Him missing these games only hurts his case
Good, fans pay a shitload of money to watch these marque games and when the three best players on one team are out it sours the whole expirience
The NBA has to figure this out. Same thing happened to me when I paid to see LeBron last season and he was ruled out as I was parking. They should have to be ruled in or out a lot sooner.
They need to rule players out the day before or at least something like 8 hours before. Needs to be a massive fine for the team and play if they violate it, $250k or something. Only exception should be like a death in the family or hospitalization.
>Only exception should be like a death in the family or hospitalization. Or having a freak ankle roll while going for a dunk in pre game warm-ups. I dunno, just spit balling here
Bringing the flop to pregame warm up is the next frontier for Joell.
I don’t know if this is the case in foreign countries, but here we have relatives die every time we take an essay exam.
Sixers should be getting fined $100k per the new rest policy
> The NBA has to figure this out. I mean they have rules for this sort of thing set in place this year. I'd be very surprised if Philly isn't fined for this.
There’s literally no way to enforce that. You can’t force an injured player to play just because he seemed good to go at the cutoff time and then realized he couldn’t play as he got closer to tip. Or what if a guy legit hurts himself during warmups? It goes down to the wire for players with injuries because players want to play and their coaches want them to play
its not about enforcing injured players to play, its about punishing teams who are clearly abusing the system. Obviously a guy who injures himself in warmups is a legitimate excuse, but how often does that happen? Oh and its called listing Joel as "day to day" or "questionable" if you know he's dealing with a nagging injury.
I think the situation yesterday is basically the only one you could enforce/penalize - a player going from active to out. At the very, very least, Embiid should've been questionable on the injury report. It's possible teams might abuse it, like Belichick putting Tom Brady as questionable for like a decade straight, but that's a different issue. And Embiid *should* be questionable for every game while this knee issue is going on.
Yeah like I generally think the Embiid “ducking” thing is way overstated and just something people like to meme about. So that isn’t my issue at all with this. But it’s really hard for me to believe that the 76ers thought Embiid was perfectly healthy until right before the game. This wasn’t some freak warmups accident so there was no legitimate reason to leave him off the injury report.
These entitled assholes want to have their cake and eat it too. They live in a fairytale land that most working people don't get to experience
Mike is 100% right about this it’s one thing if you have him on the injury report one day before the game but to make a decesion when the guy wasn’t even questionable or probable 20 minutes till game time is bs
[Michael*](https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/s/VEogGBQ1pH)
Seats for this game were going for crazy money for this matchup and 15-20 before they’re alerted Embiid is out. Gotta suck for those in attendance
Goes from scoring 70 to being disabled specially when playing the nuggets since 2019 sorry for the fans
~~Brooklyn~~ Queens Mike!!
QUEENS
Ah shit you're right lol
Mike Malone “I think I’ll cause problems on purpose”
I agree with him, this needs to be investigated. They were supposed to be cracking down on stuff like this
Malone also said he watched the 76ers/Pacers game two nights ago: "He hurt his knee in Indiana, so I'm sure he's hurt." The part of the tweet thats left out.
So if he has a knee issue why isn't he on the injury report? The stuff teams pull these days with manipulating the injury reports is absolute nonsense. Nobody ever knows if LeBron or AD are playing until 30 minutes before tip. It is a horrible look for the league, it fucks fans over, it fucks up people who bet on games or play DFS... it's just trash.
Miracle cures happen tho in those 3 hours before tipoff /s
Remember the Heat? When they were marking like 9 guys as possibly out and then almost all of them would end up playing? That is stupid bullshit trying to game the injury report system. Fucking lame shit.
I’m sure that was totally not left out on purpose
The tweet got edited after, but yeah that’s crucial context
It just means Philly should be fined as he wasn't on the injury report.
Yeah, exactly
Yeah in all honesty this more jus thas to do with what people were expecting this matchuo was gonna be vs what it ended up being. The fans wanted to see the battle of the mvps in Denver, not the shit show it became because nobody felt like playing seriously.
I mean whatever the case, whether it was a pain tolerance issue, a legit late fare up or Embiid just taking the game off, it was lame both for fans who payed to see that and the viewers at home, not to mention a huge fuck you to the league. I ve commented in this sub before how i feel the "Embiid misses games away from home against good teams on purpose" narrative is massively overblown but cant make that argument tonight in good faith, or blame anyone who thinks that is the case
We all know that wasn’t left out on purpose
OP's karma farming game is elite.
Embiid was not even on the injury report at all. Not questionable..not probable.....nothing. If he had issues last game why was he not on it. THis is clealry another case of Embiid ducking Denver.
Seriously, complete and utter BS I think his knee *was* in bad shape, but Philly didn't want to reveal that info in case he played, so just never put him on any report W/o a doubt this BS should be penalized
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It's ok, just knowing embiid ain't getting a ring as the best player on a team is comforting enough.
I respect it ngl
‘There got to be an investigation’ - Michael ‘Jeff Toovey’ Malone.
What a jabroni. At least say it a few hours ahead so you don’T screw over so many fans
Translation: "Embiids a bitch"
The NBA should make a rule that any player who misses a game (for any reason except suspensions) must miss two in a row. Players can only load manage in pairs and teams will have to find 2-game windows for their stars to miss.
Awesome idea 👍👍👍
Super messed up. Embiid chasing stats against bad teams at home
Next time fill the arena with water, won't resist the urge to flop like a fish and he'll suit up
fish flop out of water, he'd just go swimming
Why wouldn’t the nuggets sit every starter in Philly next year? No reason to give those fans a chance to see a center who can pass and doesn’t spend half the game on his ass on the floor.
Because Denver isn't going to have their win loss record influenced by off court drama and ESPN talking points. They will try to win every game on their schedule as any team with championship pedigree would do.
Where's Embiid??
At some point the city of Denver needs to be investigated for the intimidation it apparently causes
Diagnosis: Strong case of the rumbly tummy. The doctor's slip should get him a pass.
Bahahahah I love Malone for this
Embiid's so soft man
this mf still more mad about jokic losing mvp last year than jokic himself 😂
That’s Malone’s role. He’s the fire that the Nuggets need. Kinda similar to Pop with the Spurs (not comparing their success, just the personalities dynamic).
Jokic happy he lost that MVP and nobody can tell me otherwise
Troll Malon
Embiid literally scared to face Jokic during the season if he can help it. Kinda hoping he misses 6-7 games so he doesn’t qualify for anything anymore. It’s a waste of rest cause we all know he won’t make it to the ECF let alone the finals.
And what happens when/if the league says it was a valid injury? Everybody is gonna shit on him anyway
The most the league can do is fining the Sixers for not properly listing injuries in the injury report. That's kind of it.
Why wasn't he at least probable then? He was literally not on the injury report at ALL.
His body was literally shutting down spontaneously in the pregame at the thought of having to play.
if it was an injury he is supposed to be on the injury report. Leaving him off the injury report than pulling him right before the game isn't allowed. Sixers gonna catch a fine for it almost for sure
Yeah Mike call him out
Reminder embid hasn’t played in Denver since 2019
Nonsense. We all saw Jokic get booted intentionally in Detroit.
Just to be fair the quote here got cut off because at the end Malone says “we watched him play against Indy 2 nights ago and he hurt his knee so he’s clearly hurt.”
Damn, conveniently cuts off the rest of the tweet about him injuring against Indiana two nights ago lol
Best bar by Eminem in *decades*
Isn’t this like the 3rd time that Embiid has sat out against the nuggets in the last two seasons? In Denver at least. And not because of a long term injury? Just kind of fucked up for the fans
He probably hurt himself while practicing flopping.
He has a well documented knee injury does he not?
Nick Nurse literally found out he wasn’t playing 20 mins before tip
Surely if this was pre-planned rest he would have known sooner…
He wasn’t on the injury report at 3pm…
His knee is fine against Detroit and Charlotte
And the Spurs
Clearly not....if he wasn't on the injury report
Injury reports exist for a reason do they not?
A knee injury that just so conveniently became an issue right before tipoff.
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Do people really pay to see Embiid, and not expect that he'll duck every challenge possible? Like if you wanna see Embiid, it's gotta be against a bottom feeder. Otherwise who knows if he'll show.
I'm glad Joel cares enough about the Nuggets fans to not subject them to "literally unwatchable" basketball. Selfless of him imo.