The Philadelphia 76ers lastly acquired to see their trio of Joel Embiid, Paul George and Tyrese Maxey on the courtroom collectively for the primary time this season on Wednesday. It lasted for roughly one half.
George exited the Sixers’ sport towards the Memphis Grizzlies, , with a left knee hyperextension and didn’t return, per . The knee is identical knee that brought about George to overlook the primary 5 video games of the season attributable to a bone bruise from a earlier hyperextension.
The damage appeared to happen when George landed awkwardly after leaping to defend Grizzlies wing Desmond Bane within the third quarter.
This is the play/replays of Sixers’ Paul George experiencing some kind of ache in his left leg as soon as he lands.
Exhausting to see precisely what occurred however PG walked off to the locker room.
Not lengthy after George was reported to be dominated out, Embiid knocked knees with Grizzlies massive man Jaren Jackson Jr. and visibly limped towards the bench. Happily, he remained within the sport.
George aggravating or re-injuring his knee would solely be the most recent blow to a depressing season for the Sixers, who entered Wednesday tied for final within the Jap Convention with a file of 2-11.
Philadelphia was alleged to be within the higher echelon of East contenders this season after swinging a commerce for George, however accidents have thus far wreaked havoc upon their roster. Each Embiid and George have been out in the beginning of the season — Embiid to handle a knee ailment and George with the bone bruise.
Then Embiid for shoving a columnist for writing one thing about his damage administration he believed was over the road. Then Maxey went down with a proper hamstring damage.
All three lastly acquired again into the courtroom on Wednesday, and the end result was one other loss and extra ache.
