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Embiid has a new foot injury

Hantlers said:
If Embiid is available, you take him at #5 and you don't think twice about it. Easily worth the risk.

The dude has the potential to be the best player from this draft, and I actually want to win a championship at some point…so yeah, I'd take him. If he flops, he flops…but if he doesn't, then we're golden.
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Why don't you ask Portland about that? The same thing was send about Oden and look where that went. Foot injuries on big guys rarely heal well and the player is rarely the same player.
 
I think this is a very interesting predicament. It seems to me that his draft stock will fall considerably for a few reasons:

1. Sam Bowie and Greg Oden. Drafting big men in the first couple of picks with injury histories or who look like old men when Michael Jordan and Kevin Durant are available will not only destroy your team and waste your owner's money (which apparently they just love), it will also get you fired as GM. One example from a generation ago is one thing, but the Oden one still hurts, especially seeing as Durant just earned the MVP trophy. If this report is true (which it really does appear to be), then Joel Embiid has officially become nuclear.

2. From what I can gather, this was during a WORKOUT. This wasn't even during practice or, much less, a game. If a player has a history of back problems (huge red flag) and then breaks his foot during a workout, of all things, you distance yourself from him fast.

And teams will do exactly that. He WILL fall to us, and my advice is that we bypass him too. I have nothing against him personally, and I certainly wish him the best, but we need to avoid him like the plague. If he does end up having a good or great NBA career, you deal with the fact that you opted out of the calculated risk for the good of your team.
 
From Woj's Twitter:

Cleveland doctors discovered right foot injury in exams and passed info onto Embiid reps, sources tell Yahoo. Fear is a right foot fracture.
 
List a big that had a long history of back and foot injuries prior to the draft that actually panned out.

We know of the failures.'how about the successes?
 
The Thriller said:
List a big that had a long history of back and foot injuries prior to the draft that actually panned out.

We know of the failures.'how about the successes?
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Illgauskas (sp?) and Smits both had foot issues. Okafor had back issues. IDK if anyone had both.
 
Well this makes the draft even more interesting. I think the Cavs are going to go with Wiggins now. That or they trade the pick. I don't see them taking Parker over Wiggins.
 
This is an issue with 7-footers... they just aren't made for this type of pounding. It's why Shaq was such a freak.

Blair and Sullinger don't really count. Blair is like 6' 5" and Sully's like 6' 8". Also, Sully's already missed a year in his young career.
 
And I'm not sure if anyone addressed this, but a "NEW" foot injury? What the **** am I missing?
 
Chris said:
1. Sam Bowie and Greg Oden. Drafting big men in the first couple of picks with injury histories or who look like old men when Michael Jordan and Kevin Durant are available will not only destroy your team and waste your owner's money (which apparently they just love), it will also get you fired as GM. One example from a generation ago is one thing, but the Oden one still hurts, especially seeing as Durant just earned the MVP trophy. If this report is true (which it really does appear to be), then Joel Embiid has officially become nuclear.
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There isn't a Kevin Durant to pass on in this draft. And there certainly isn't one at 5.
 
cowhide said:
Why don't you ask Portland about that? The same thing was send about Oden and look where that went. Foot injuries on big guys rarely heal well and the player is rarely the same player.
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Greg Oden actually had a long history of injuries and a leg THAT'S LONGER THAN THE OTHER. Portland blew it, plain and simple.
 
Core4 said:
Okafor had one season as an all-star (and a questionable selection at that). He was a career 13/10 guy. Would that be a good 5th pick?
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His production is kind of irrelevant. He got healthy. Being healthy doesn't automatically make you a hall of famer.
 
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