Embiid and George avoid timelines as 76ers stress health

Joel Embiid and Paul George offered nary steadfast instrumentality dates astatine the Philadelphia 76ers’ media day, stressing wellness implicit haste aft offseason genu procedures. Embiid said helium feels “pretty good” but is going “day by day,” adding, “There’s not needfully an expectation; it’s much astir making definite everything is close and doing everything close and past spell from there.” Limited to 19 games past season, helium averaged 23.8 points and 8.2 rebounds—his lowest since aboriginal successful his career—before April arthroscopy connected his near knee.

Asked if helium should alteration his benignant to little risk, Embiid pushed back. “At times you can’t get retired of yourself… my mentality is to bash immoderate it takes to win.” He noted helium has reached this level by impacting some ends. President of hoops operations Daryl Morey said, “We’re not getting into the expectations game,” emphasizing aesculapian proposal and Embiid listening to his body. Coach Nick Nurse added helium hopes determination is “management” to bash this year—meaning helium plays capable to warrant it.

George ramps up, abbreviated of contact

George, who had July arthroscopy connected his near knee, said helium is “getting amended and better,” doing “pretty overmuch everything but afloat contact.” He expects cardinal gains successful the adjacent mates of weeks, portion avoiding a hard deadline: “I don’t deliberation there’s a timeline, conscionable however the assemblage is doing arsenic we’re ramping up the work.” The nine-time All-Star appeared successful 41 games past play aft signing a four-year, $212 cardinal woody successful 2024 and called it “a stone bottommost benignant of season.”

Roster notes: McCain setback, Grimes successful limbo

Rookie Jared McCain, coming disconnected a meniscus teardrop past December, suffered a UCL wounded successful his close thumb during a workout. “Some injuries are fluky. Jared’s couldn’t person been much fluky,” Morey said, with the squad inactive determining a timetable. Guard Quentin Grimes missed media time amid a declaration stalemate and is improbable to question for the Abu Dhabi preseason games. Morey said, “I deliberation we volition get to a solution successful the adjacent fewer days, hopefully.”