The wait appears to be over.
According to Sixers head coach Brett Brown, Joel Embiid appears to be 'on track' to make his NBA debut in the preseason, after losing his first two seasons to a stress fracture in the navicular bone in his right foot.
"I just left my third consecutive day workout with Joel a half an hour ago – 45 minutes ago, 10 minutes before you and I got on the phone. He's just so on track," Brown said on "The Lowe Point" podcast, via Philly.com. "Physically, mentally, recent medical scans, everything is pointing in the right direction.