Just thinking out loud here …
I’m not ready to buy what the Sixers are selling about Joel Embiid. At least, not what they are trying to sell. I’m not saying they are milking the benefits of the uncertainty of his situation for all they are worth. I’m saying that they would be silly not to try. If, that is, the uncertainty really exists.
What I’m trying to say is that you’d have to give me significant odds in my favor for me to bet you that the Sixers’ big man will not be in the lineup when they take the court for Game 1 of their Eastern Conference quarterfinal against the Heat on Saturday.