SALT LAKE CITY — Philadelphia Sixers star Joel Embiid is one of the NBA’s hottest young centers.
Jazz big man Rudy Gobert is arguably the league’s best defensive center.
Posters are plastered all around Salt Lake City, promoting the two marquee players, as the 76ers are in town to face the Jazz at 7 p.m. Tuesday.
In a guard-dominated era, this sounds like a match made in heaven by the basketball Gods, right?
Unfortunately, that won’t be happening tonight as the Sixers have decided to rest Embiid, due to “load management,” according to Marc Narducci of The Philadelphia Enquirer.