The Philadelphia 76ers announced Friday that 2022 NBA MVP Joel Embiid will miss the rest of the season, as the team’s 30-year-old franchise player tries to find a long-term solution to his months-long battle with a left knee injury.
The team said that after consulting top specialists about Embiid’s knee injury, “it has been determined that he is medically unable to play and will miss the remainder of the season to focus on treatment and rehabilitation.”
— Philadelphia 76ers (@sixers) February 28, 2025
Embiid has played just 19 games this season, more than a year since he initially was injured when Golden State forward Jonathan Kuminga fell on his left knee during a game on Jan. 31, 2024. He had surgery to remove part of the torn meniscus in his knee, and missed 29 games before returning just before the start of last year’s playoffs. But Embiid then had to deal with contracting Bell’s Palsy, a neurological condition that causes temporary paralysis on one side of a person’s face, during the 76ers’ first-round series loss to the Knicks.
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