In honor of opening night, and of the renewed rivalry between the Sixers and the Celtics, and the fact that we’ve got top billing on TNT, here is the Best and Worst Case for every active player on the Sixers:
Joel Embiid
Best Case: Embiid plays around 32 minutes, and in those 32-ish minutes racks up something like 28 and 12. He gets to the line often, getting at least one of the Celtics’ starters in foul trouble. Probably Jaylen Brown. He also blocks Aron Baynes so hard his top bun falls off revealing a questionable skull tattoo of Crocodile Dundee.