CAMDEN, N.J. — The avalanche of injuries suffered by the Philadelphia 76ers last year begat a slew of injury check-ins to start media day.
For most, Friday’s language was vague but broadly hopeful.
Joel Embiid is “on schedule” in the rehab from his latest knee surgery in April, though no one shared said schedule. Paul George’s road back from a knee procedure in July has him doing “pretty much everything but full contact.” Embiid played just 19 games last year, George 41 in his first season with the Sixers.
But a roster that featured 30 different players and a 24-58 record had much more wrong with it than just maladies at the top. And so the rehab rundown was voluminous.
Andre Drummond spent the summer doing toe yoga to strengthen a chronically balky digit that limited him to 40 games a