Embiid’s statistics this season: 1 technical, 2 investigations and 3 suspension games

In a basketball in which numbers and statistics have more and more weight, Joel Embiid’s records this season are unique in history.

The Sixers center has not played a single gamebut he has continued to be the protagonist… although in controversies instead of parties. He was just suspended for three games after pushing a journalist who wrote an article, in which he cited the player’s son and a little brother who died in a traffic accident. Embiid didn’t like it at all and attacked the editor. The NBA opened an investigation and the consequence has been this sanction that will be served when he is ready to play. By not playing in those three dates, you will stop winning just over a million dollars.

When will that be? Who knows. Embiid, once again, has physical problems. He missed the entire preseason due to an injury to his left knee that he has been carrying since last season.when he could only play 39 regular league games. In a duel against the Warriors, Jonathan Kuminga fell on the joint and in early February he had to undergo surgery to repair the meniscus.either. He did not return until early April and participated in the playoff series against the Knicks that cost his team the elimination.

His absences due to injury at the beginning of the season have also been the subject of investigation by the NBA.. The Sixers announced that they had a plan to try to get the center healthy to the playoffs and that this included that he would not participate in the second games of the back-to-back. Embiid himself went so far as to say that it was likely that he would never play games on consecutive nights again in his career.

A technique to distract an opponent in a free kick

The player has been seen at Sixers gamestrying to cheer up his teammates. And in one of them, despite being on the bench dressed in street clothes, took a technique. There were 16.4 seconds left in the game against the Pacers when Andrew Nembhard was preparing to take free throws. Embiid began waving a towel at one end of the court to distract him (he failed) and the referees pointed out the technique to the center.

So the Cameroonian player has radically modified his statistics this season. The former MVP of the 22-23 season has changed points, rebounds and assists for techniques (he has one), investigations (two) and penalty games (three).