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Jeff Borzelo
Camden, New Jersey – is not a certain timeline for Philadelphia 76ers Stars Joel Ambid And Paul George To return from their respective knee surgery, both players said on the team’s media day on Friday.
Embed said he feels “very good”, but he is taking it day to day and checking the box because he moves towards a return.
“Not necessarily an expectation; it is more about making sure that everything is right and everything is correct and then go from there,” he said. “Obviously the goal is to play continuously and there is no situation that we were last year.”
EMBIID was limited to 19 games in the previous season, which, due to its ongoing knee injury and a leg sprain, had officially shut down its campaign in late February. He average 23.8 points since the 2019-20 season, and 8.2 rebounds of former NBA MVP NBA MVP since his fraudulent year in 2016-17.
He underwent arthoscopic surgery on his left knee in April, with a six -week re -evaluation timeline. Friday’s media day, however, was the first official health update after surgery and the first time EMBIID spoke publicly from February.
Embed was asked if there was an on-court adjustment that he could proceed to avoid injury.
“Many times you can’t get out of yourself,” he said. “I know since I started it, to work hard, both to play. There are many people in the league who play on one side, whether it is a crime or defense. For me many times, my mindset is to do whatever it has to win. For all my career, both of them have to do it.”
“I have reached this point because I am so good on both ends of the floor. If you ask me to change the way you play, I only guess that I either have a completely crime and play defensively, which does not suit me,” Ambed continued. “I don’t think I will never be fine with it. I don’t know. We will just wait and see. If it happens this way, it is definitely going to be an adjustment, but I am not watching so.”
George performed an orthroscopic process on his left knee after an injury during a workout in July and was expected to be re -evaluated in September. He played in just 41 matches in the last season after signing four years, $ 212 million with Philadelphia in summer of 2024. The nine-time NBA All-Star dealt with many diseases in the previous season, left the knee and left his season in March before receiving injections in his left adicter muscles.
“I’m getting better and better. Feeling strong and strong,” said George. “This is very important in the next few weeks, leading at the beginning of the season, opening at night, all that goods. I can do so much, day -to -day, I am focusing in a day a day in a day.
He said that he can “contact too much but full.” George will not be fully prepared for the start of the training camp, but his knee swelling is going down.
“I don’t think there is a timeline,” he said, “Just how the body is doing as we are working.”
The 6-Foot-8 forward scored just 16.2 points in the previous season, the lowest since his six-game 2014-15 campaign. George has played more than 56 games in a season once since 2018-19.
“It may not be worse than last year,” he said. “It was a rock bottom season.”
