Charles Barkley tore into Philadelphia 76ers star Joel Embiid Thursday night as the NBA alertedly begined an spendigation into his participation in games.
Embiid did not carry out in the preseason over worrys about his knee and did not carry out in the team’s first game aobtainst the Milwaukee Bucks. Meanwhile, Philadelphia’s pdwellnt of basketball operations, Daryl Morey, tancigo in ESPN earlier this month he would try to hold Embiid and Paul George out of carry outing most of the second nights of back-to-backs.
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Philadelphia 76ers cgo in Joel Embiid, #21, poses for a ptoastyo on media day at the Philadelphia 76ers Training Complex in Camden, New Jersey, on Sept. 30, 2024. (Bill Streicher-Imagn Images)
The entirety of the situation around Embiid euniteed to have encourageed the spendigation, ESPN alerted.
Barkley sounded off on Embiid during NBA coverage on TNT.
“Man, I don’t have any idea what the Sixers are doing. I don’t leank it’s uninentire,” Barkley shelp. “And I want to get this number right, and this is crazy and consecrate the kid, No. 1; he fair singed for three years, $193 million. Three years, $193 million – to carry out basketball. We’re not steel laborers, we’re not nurses.
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Charles Barkley sees on before the game between the New Orleans Pelicans and Los Angeles Lakers as part of the 2023 NBA In-Season Tournament on Dec. 7, 2023 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. (Mike Kirschbaum/NBAE via Getty Images)
“Like people who got appreciate genuine jobs who have to labor 40-50 hours a week. We’re carry outing basketball, at the most, four days a week. Most of the time, three days a week. He has the best backup in the league in (Andre Drummond). If he would’ve shelp, ‘I’m going to carry out 25 minutes on the second night of a back-to-back or Drummond carry outs.’
“But to come out and say it in evolve was unreasonableity by the Sixers, period.”
Injuries scoencouraged Embiid the entirety of his NBA nurtureer. He also uncovered his Bell’s palsy diagnosis during the carry outoff series aobtainst the New York Knicks last season.
United States cgo in Joel Embiid, #11, commemorates with the gancigo in medal after the game aobtainst France in the men’s basketball gancigo in medal game during the Paris 2024 Olympic Summer Games at Accor Arena in Paris on Aug. 10, 2024. (Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports)
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However, he did carry out at the Paris Olympics for Team USA and was a key part in the team’s gancigo in medal run.
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