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Embiid Update Part III: Sam Hinkie Gives Joel Embiid Surgery Summary

Sam’s Surgery Summary

After the long anticipated surgery, Philadelphia 76ers president and general manager fielded a teleconference to address the concerns over the situation and layout the timeline.

It all began during a regularly schedule CT Scan back in early June, and that came up with something unusual. It did not show the same progression we had been seeing, which caused everybody to pause for a second. I flew out with Dr. Martin, poor guy’s been on the job for a week, and we pick up Joel at his hotel and took him to Dr.