The Philadelphia 76ers have suffered another major blow in their rebuild efforts.  A couple of weeks before the NBA Draft in late June, the Sixers announced center Joel Embiid had suffered a setback.  The team made it clear, Embiid’s “right foot revealed less healing than anticipated.”  Well it turns out things are way worse then they let on.

via CBS Philly:

Sixers reporter Bob Cooney reports Embiid actually re-broke the same navicular bone in his right foot.

“Late last night I got a confirmation from another source that I trust, so that’s kind of why it’s a little bit underplayed in the paper today,” Cooney told Angelo Cataldi and the 94WIP Morning Show on Monday morning.

“From what the sources told me, it’s broken again. Absolutely, you have to be nervous about it. Then this next surgery will be very interesting, find out exactly what they’ll go in and do. Hopefully the Sixers will come out and speak of it after it is done.”

Many were a little surprised when the Sixers drafted another big man in Jahlil Okafor but obviously they knew about Embiid’s condition.

Aside from concern for the team, this has to be hard on the young player who desperately just wants to get out there on the court.  Hopefully things turn around for him.

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