WEBVTT - #thisleague UNCUT: All-Star reserves reaction and the Joel Embiid latest 0:00:01.920 --> 0:00:05.760 The All Star reserves in the East and West are out, 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:10.080 Who made it, who got snubbed, and reaction to the 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:14.120 foremost headline in this league as we speak, Joe l 0:00:14.120 --> 0:00:18.360 Embiid's sideline in Philadelphia by a meniscus injury in his 0:00:18.480 --> 0:00:21.840 left knee. We get to all of that next here 0:00:21.880 --> 0:00:23.000 on This League Uncut. 0:00:23.520 --> 0:00:27.880 Welcome to This League Uncut in rule of twenty four 0:00:27.920 --> 0:00:28.880 hour NBA News. 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:35.320 This's you'll, Chris Hans, it's no time, Marks time, It's 0:00:35.360 --> 0:00:36.280 so time. 0:00:40.520 --> 0:00:45.200 This League Uncut is underway and on fire. This should 0:00:45.240 --> 0:00:45.920 be a good one. 0:00:47.600 --> 0:00:52.600 Hey, everyone, welcome in to a Thursday night taping Friday 0:00:52.640 --> 0:00:57.400 morning drop for the This League Uncut podcast. 0:00:58.160 --> 0:01:00.000 Mark Stein here with Chris Hanyes. 0:01:02.080 --> 0:01:05.160 It was always going to be a crazy time because 0:01:05.200 --> 0:01:09.640 this Thursday, at three pm Eastern, on this Thursday, that 0:01:09.800 --> 0:01:14.560 officially marked one week to go until the trade deadline. 0:01:14.600 --> 0:01:17.200 So it was going to be busy anyway. But on 0:01:17.240 --> 0:01:22.280 this Thursday, seemingly in the space of an hour and change, 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:26.200 we had a trade. The Houston Rockets made a trade 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:28.880 for next season, but still a significant trade. The Houston 0:01:28.959 --> 0:01:33.399 Rockets swung a deal with Memphis to acquire Steven Adams. 0:01:34.440 --> 0:01:41.240 That was right before TNT rolled out its scheduled announcement 0:01:42.040 --> 0:01:45.920 of the All Star reserves in both conferences, and in 0:01:45.959 --> 0:01:52.600 the middle of that revelation finding out the coaches seven 0:01:52.640 --> 0:01:56.440 selections in both the East and the West, we get 0:01:56.480 --> 0:01:58.960 an injury update from the seventy six. 0:01:58.880 --> 0:02:01.160 Ers that the Sixers are not. 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:07.440 Outright declaring the severity of the injury yet. The Sixers 0:02:07.440 --> 0:02:10.040 say they're going to need the rest of the week 0:02:10.440 --> 0:02:14.520 to make that determination, But the Sixers do acknowledge that 0:02:14.560 --> 0:02:20.120 an MRI has revealed a meniscous injury in Joe L. 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:23.880 Embiid's left knee that is obviously going to sideline him 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:29.040 for what, at this point is an undetermined amount of time, 0:02:29.600 --> 0:02:32.440 but it's obviously not gonna be measured in days. And 0:02:33.880 --> 0:02:37.360 the level of what a blow that is to the 0:02:37.400 --> 0:02:41.680 Sixers given the way Embiid has played this season, after 0:02:41.960 --> 0:02:46.280 all this discourse all week long about the sixty five 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:51.800 game rule and how many games Embiid has already missed, 0:02:52.720 --> 0:02:56.480 I mean, all of that gets shoved to the side 0:02:56.520 --> 0:03:00.160 right now, because this is just a massive hit the 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:04.800 Sixers when Embiid, I mean, even after that Golden State game, 0:03:05.040 --> 0:03:09.320 when Joel Embiid clearly did not look right even before 0:03:09.880 --> 0:03:14.480 the unfortunate loose ball scramble that caused this more severe 0:03:14.560 --> 0:03:18.120 knee injury this season, in the thirty four games he 0:03:18.280 --> 0:03:22.480 has played, Joel Embiid has scored twelve hundred and one 0:03:22.520 --> 0:03:27.040 points in only eleven hundred and fifty seven minutes. Absolutely 0:03:27.639 --> 0:03:35.520 ridiculous Wilt esque production. And so the level of alarm 0:03:35.880 --> 0:03:38.880 in Philadelphia is obviously super high. As we speak, as 0:03:38.880 --> 0:03:41.280 we're recording this, the Sixers are trying to win a 0:03:41.320 --> 0:03:43.840 game in Utah without Joel Embid. 0:03:43.880 --> 0:03:45.200 So look, we're gonna get to Embiid. 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:47.320 We're gonna start with the All Star stuff, and then 0:03:47.320 --> 0:03:50.880 we're gonna get to Embiid. Chris Haynes, I'm sure you 0:03:50.960 --> 0:03:54.720 were dialed in this evening when the All Star reserves 0:03:54.760 --> 0:03:55.560 were announced. 0:03:56.160 --> 0:03:57.600 I actually wrote. 0:03:57.360 --> 0:04:02.240 A column on Tuesday trying to pick my fourteen reserves. 0:04:02.240 --> 0:04:05.600 Had I had a ballot or had I been advising 0:04:06.520 --> 0:04:09.520 a coach with a vote, I knew how I was 0:04:09.560 --> 0:04:12.840 gonna go and vote my fourteen. I got twelve out 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:15.560 of fourteen, right, I got them all right. In the 0:04:15.600 --> 0:04:21.039 Eastern Conference. Jalen Brown, Donovan Mitchell of course, Jalen Brunson, 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:23.839 who was a Locke to make his first All Star 0:04:23.960 --> 0:04:28.159 team after he narrowly missed out on being named a starter, 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:32.920 bam At a Bio, Julius Randall, Tyrese Maxi, And yes, 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:37.039 I had Palo Bancaro getting a spot and he did so. 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:39.920 I did well in the I did well in the East. 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:42.279 You can tell me, Chris, if you think anybody in 0:04:42.320 --> 0:04:47.360 the East got snub at the West Man kawhi Ad, 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:53.680 Devin Booker, Anthony Edward Stephen Curry. Those five all made it. 0:04:54.120 --> 0:04:57.760 But I would have gone with Rudy Gobert and Demontes 0:04:57.760 --> 0:05:00.800 Sabonis for the other two spots. The coaches, what with 0:05:00.880 --> 0:05:04.719 Karl Anthony Towns over Gobert. That one really surprised me. 0:05:05.480 --> 0:05:08.919 And then Paul George much less of a surprise because 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:11.360 the Clippers have been fantastic and you can certainly make 0:05:11.360 --> 0:05:14.120 the argument that the Clippers should have two All Stars. 0:05:14.600 --> 0:05:17.440 But the Clippers have two, the Sacramento Kings have none. 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:20.960 The Kings didn't get Sabonis or Deer and Fox in 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:23.719 and that genuinely did surprise me. 0:05:23.800 --> 0:05:27.040 Christianes, Yeah, I mean the East was pretty this this 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:29.960 in recent memory. The East, that was pretty that was 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:34.080 probably one of the most easiest seven guys to pick 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:38.400 in the conference in recent memory. That's that's pretty much 0:05:38.520 --> 0:05:42.320 the roster that everybody pretty much predicted. The West, Yeah, 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:44.520 we knew that was going to be pretty much up 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:51.040 for grabs. You know, definitely some controversy there the Sacramento 0:05:51.120 --> 0:05:56.320 Kings not getting one. I think you can make a 0:05:56.360 --> 0:06:01.200 case that they should have two. But then who are 0:06:01.240 --> 0:06:04.440 you taking off? Who are you taking off? Minnesota, number 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:06.800 one team in the Western Conference. You can say that 0:06:06.839 --> 0:06:12.479 they deserve too if you look at typically when you 0:06:12.560 --> 0:06:15.920 have a team that is number one in the conference 0:06:16.000 --> 0:06:19.360 or even number one in the entire league, that comes 0:06:19.360 --> 0:06:25.680 with multiple All Star bursts, and so you know, it's 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:29.480 interesting you would have picked go Bear over Karl Anthony Towns, 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:32.360 who's having a pretty good season. I mean, I think 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:34.760 Minnesota they would make the case that they deserve three 0:06:35.440 --> 0:06:36.720 with that being not. 0:06:36.600 --> 0:06:37.599 Getting three in the West. 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:40.479 The West, Man, the West is the West is so 0:06:40.560 --> 0:06:43.279 stacked you literally could come up with a list of 0:06:43.360 --> 0:06:46.040 fifteen worthy candidates for the seven spots. 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:48.200 I mean, guys like shne Goot. 0:06:48.279 --> 0:06:52.880 Can't even get close to being considered. 0:06:52.480 --> 0:06:56.280 James James Harden is not even going to be considered. 0:06:57.279 --> 0:07:04.080 And you know it's uh, it's just no Pelicans are 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:07.119 you know, on this Western Conference roster. 0:07:07.200 --> 0:07:12.800 It's just super competitive. But no, I have to Minnesota's rise. 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:17.520 Obviously, Anthony Edwards is a huge part of it, becoming 0:07:17.640 --> 0:07:21.360 the guy there, becoming really the centerpiece of this team. 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:26.200 But the other transformation in Minneapolis has been defense. This 0:07:26.240 --> 0:07:28.600 has been the best defensive team in the league, a 0:07:28.720 --> 0:07:33.560 top three defensive team all season. That starts with Gobert. 0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:37.640 I mean in a huge, huge way. So it's not 0:07:37.720 --> 0:07:42.240 that I'm trying to slight cat, but to me, Gobert 0:07:42.280 --> 0:07:43.880 should be the Wolf's second All Star. 0:07:44.000 --> 0:07:46.400 But I mean, if you disagree. 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:50.040 Will disagree. Let's let's talk about it, don't. I don't 0:07:50.080 --> 0:07:52.840 know if I disagree or not, But I think they're 0:07:52.880 --> 0:07:56.480 a compelling chase for others, for others. But you know, 0:07:57.000 --> 0:07:59.760 we talked about this. Was it a month ago when 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:02.640 I was talking about the guards, how it was just 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:07.600 so many guards that were deserving of an All Star 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:11.360 birth in the Western Conference and I was, you know, 0:08:11.400 --> 0:08:13.160 I was talking about Steph. I was talking about the 0:08:13.160 --> 0:08:17.960 season the Golden State is having I believe Steph is 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:22.080 on on a team with the lowest record who made 0:08:23.000 --> 0:08:29.480 an All Star team. I believe Steph is the lowest. 0:08:29.720 --> 0:08:32.520 So with that being said, I remember we were talking 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:35.840 about three weeks ago. I was talking about, is there 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:38.520 a scenario where Steph will be left off for the 0:08:38.600 --> 0:08:46.120 roster because Dearon Fox, Shae Gillis, Alexander, Devin Booker, Anthony Edwards, 0:08:47.760 --> 0:08:50.080 it's loaded, and you can make a case that they're 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:55.160 probably more deserving than Steph, and then Dearon, I mean, 0:08:55.240 --> 0:08:58.120 it's it's tough, it's tough, but but stin this this 0:08:58.200 --> 0:09:03.000 is funny though, because uh, I was just say ironic 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:08.360 because Steph makes it, and you know, there's Kings fans 0:09:08.360 --> 0:09:10.440 and saying, hey, what's going on? The Kings are fifth 0:09:10.440 --> 0:09:13.559 place in the West, the Aaron having a good year, sabonus. 0:09:14.080 --> 0:09:19.320 But look y'all, the NBA announced, what was it two 0:09:19.440 --> 0:09:24.240 three days ago, that Steph is going to compete in 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:29.640 a three point contest with Sabrina. Did you actually think 0:09:30.640 --> 0:09:33.320 that Steph, if he didn't make it, he was still 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:35.680 going to show up to Indianapolis during an All Star break? 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:38.559 Did you really think that you know that was your 0:09:38.559 --> 0:09:39.120 hands up. 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:41.320 It's funny you bring that up, because I totally didn't 0:09:41.360 --> 0:09:43.959 even think about that. But the reason I didn't even 0:09:44.000 --> 0:09:46.600 think about that is because I don't care what the 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:50.560 Warriors record is. The thought of Western Conference coaches not 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:58.960 selecting Stephan Curry no freaking chance. Coaches love Stephan Curry 0:09:59.080 --> 0:10:01.880 and what a leader or his leadership style the way 0:10:01.960 --> 0:10:04.840 I mean, there is no way the Western Conference coaches 0:10:04.880 --> 0:10:08.000 were going to leave Stephan Curry off. And like I said, 0:10:08.000 --> 0:10:10.040 I didn't even do the math. But what you just 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:14.280 said about the league arranging a three point contest a 0:10:14.360 --> 0:10:17.800 showdown between Stephan Curry and Sabrini and Escu for charity, 0:10:18.520 --> 0:10:20.480 absolutely right, that's not gonna happen. 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:22.800 They're not gonna have Steph fly in for that. And 0:10:23.040 --> 0:10:24.200 sorry you didn't make the game. 0:10:25.600 --> 0:10:28.320 But look, the King Kings fans should rightly be pissed. 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:32.520 I they deserve one All Star. Now again, I don't 0:10:32.920 --> 0:10:35.120 I struggled with this huge when I wrote about it. 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:38.680 I think Sabonis has been the most consistent force for 0:10:38.800 --> 0:10:41.240 this team this season. I mean, the guy shooting better 0:10:41.280 --> 0:10:44.320 than sixty percent from the field. But we could have 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:48.480 a long argument about who should get one spot between 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:50.439 the two Kings, if that's all there could have been 0:10:50.520 --> 0:10:51.080 room for. 0:10:51.760 --> 0:10:54.360 But we haven't even mentioned Jamal Murray. I think Jamal 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:57.520 Murray has All Star numbers. 0:10:57.679 --> 0:11:00.480 And after you know, that was the big question after 0:11:00.480 --> 0:11:03.600 the finals, after he played so well on the final stage. 0:11:04.120 --> 0:11:06.040 Was this the year that Jamal Murray was going to 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:07.839 break through and make the All Star team? And it 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:11.880 still hasn't happened. Jamal Murray is still not an NBA 0:11:11.920 --> 0:11:14.880 All Star. Lowry Markinen another guy we I mean he 0:11:15.640 --> 0:11:18.720 with the way Utah has turned their season around, he 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:22.480 should be considered. Again, We're not even looking at Pelicans 0:11:22.520 --> 0:11:25.120 like Zion Williamson and Brandon Ingram. 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:28.600 Yeah, but star San you mentioned, you mentioned these guys. 0:11:28.640 --> 0:11:29.040 Who are you? 0:11:29.800 --> 0:11:30.520 There's no room? 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:31.080 Who are you? 0:11:31.160 --> 0:11:33.080 There's no room the West, there's no room. 0:11:33.160 --> 0:11:37.360 The West has fifteen guys for seven reserved spots. And look, 0:11:38.040 --> 0:11:41.240 the San Antonio Spurs are miles under five hundred. 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:42.640 But and a rookie. 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:45.280 We have not seen a rookie make the All Star 0:11:45.360 --> 0:11:48.760 Game since Blake Griffin in twenty ten. So Victor Wenmanyama 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:51.720 was never getting an All Star birth in his first season. 0:11:52.280 --> 0:11:55.640 But is he a candidate. Did he deserve consideration, Yes, 0:11:55.720 --> 0:11:58.920 I think he deserved consideration. So to me, the West 0:11:59.320 --> 0:12:03.080 was an app salute nightmare. My list of snubs in 0:12:03.120 --> 0:12:07.960 the East is much shorter. Obviously, Trey Young as a soloist. 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:11.720 If you just look at Trey Young's individual production, you know, 0:12:11.760 --> 0:12:14.560 for the second straight year he has been left off 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:17.560 the East reserves. But you know the Hawks are well 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:19.240 under five hundred and that's the reason. 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:19.520 Why. 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:22.600 Is that all Trey Young's fault? Of course not, but 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:26.400 he's the one who's paying the price for Atlanta's very 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:31.200 disappointing season. People talked about Porzingis and Derek White in Boston. 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:34.520 Not for me, I would have had Jared Allen or 0:12:34.559 --> 0:12:38.520 Scottie Barnes ahead of the two other Celtics. I don't 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:41.920 think the Celtics need four All Stars in the East. 0:12:42.000 --> 0:12:45.400 I think having Jason Tatum and Jalen Brown is plenty. 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:48.200 I really felt like Orlando had to have someone in 0:12:48.240 --> 0:12:50.360 the East. I'm really glad to see that the coach 0:12:50.440 --> 0:12:55.640 is voted bn Carowin because I I do think that 0:12:56.160 --> 0:12:59.880 they deserved one. Now it's gonna be interesting. Julius Rand 0:13:00.400 --> 0:13:03.440 was selected as an Eastern Conference reserve. Obviously he's not 0:13:03.440 --> 0:13:05.800 gonna be able to play with the dislocated shoulder. 0:13:06.360 --> 0:13:10.880 He's just sustained, like Trey might. My Trey might get 0:13:10.920 --> 0:13:12.199 that he was second. 0:13:12.480 --> 0:13:16.280 Because I think something people need to remember in recent years, 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:22.760 the league doesn't choose those injury replacements typically based on position. 0:13:22.920 --> 0:13:26.400 What they usually do is they go to whoever was 0:13:26.520 --> 0:13:31.400 closest to earning one of the seven slots from the coaches. 0:13:31.559 --> 0:13:34.520 So I don't we obviously don't know was that Trey Young, 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:36.240 Was that Scottie Barnes? 0:13:36.360 --> 0:13:39.320 Was that from the coaches? Oh? I thought I thought 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:42.040 he did. I thought it was off the fan votes. 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:45.439 As far as now as I mean, I don't want 0:13:45.440 --> 0:13:47.560 to sit here and say that I'm one hundred percent sure, 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:51.960 But as I understood it, what they usually do on 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:55.960 reserves is go to who the coaches would have had next. 0:13:56.760 --> 0:14:00.560 So they don't come out right and say that. But 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:05.880 I think when we hear the injury selection for Randall, 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:10.040 that that will that that is how it will play out. 0:14:10.080 --> 0:14:12.360 But now you got me second guess myself. So first 0:14:12.400 --> 0:14:13.839 thing in the morning, I will go back to the 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:16.560 league and see if I don't have my facts straight. 0:14:16.600 --> 0:14:19.800 But I I think in general that's how they've done 0:14:19.800 --> 0:14:24.880 it in recent years that whoever was whoever, whoever finished 0:14:24.920 --> 0:14:29.000 eighth in the coach balloting is the most likely person 0:14:29.040 --> 0:14:31.560 to get that that replacements line. 0:14:31.640 --> 0:14:35.040 So as a right now, as a right now, we 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:38.880 know Adam Silver has to replace one, but it could 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:42.360 potentially be too depending on Joel and bid situation. 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:44.920 And you'd have to think Embiid's not going to be 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:48.720 able to play. So there will be two slots, likely 0:14:48.920 --> 0:14:52.320 in the East. And that's that's why what I wrote 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:55.520 about this on Tuesday, just my instinct is one way 0:14:55.600 --> 0:14:58.760 or the other, Trey Young will end up in Indy. 0:14:59.800 --> 0:15:03.040 But but I guess we'll see. We'll have to wait 0:15:03.040 --> 0:15:03.480 and see. 0:15:03.720 --> 0:15:08.640 What do you think if if it goes by the coaches, 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:10.960 who they had next up on the list. I don't 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:13.680 know that Trey is that high up. I would be concerned, 0:15:14.160 --> 0:15:17.120 you know, think about so East. There's not, like I said, 0:15:17.160 --> 0:15:20.480 I can't really think of any real snubs. Definitely Trey 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:23.800 has a case. Who else has a real legitimate case? 0:15:23.880 --> 0:15:26.640 I think Jared. I think Jared Allen has a case. 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:32.240 I feel like he's been so good although he got 0:15:32.280 --> 0:15:34.520 hurt tonight. We don't know how serious it is, but. 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:38.320 I think given all the injury problems that the Calves 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:42.200 have had, I mean, I think Alan I put him 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:45.400 ahead of Porzingis or Derek White or even Scotty Barnes. 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:49.400 Scotty Barnes has a very nice statistical line. He's taken 0:15:49.440 --> 0:15:52.480 a step forward, no question. But the Raptors they're even 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:56.840 further adrift in the East than the Hawks. So if 0:15:56.880 --> 0:16:00.720 the Raptors are seventeen and thirty, it's to help Scottie 0:16:00.720 --> 0:16:01.920 Barnes's All Star case. 0:16:02.640 --> 0:16:05.600 Yeah, well, let me just throw since we're naming names 0:16:05.640 --> 0:16:12.440 and given shoutouts here about potential snubs, Miles Turner from Indiana, 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:17.160 Indiana believes that he has a case. Uh you said, 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:23.400 Jared Allen, nobody else on Phoenix Jimmy Butler as I mean. 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:24.080 You know, I am. 0:16:24.320 --> 0:16:26.600 I am the biggest Jimmy fan there is. But I 0:16:26.640 --> 0:16:29.120 think this season, given the time he's missed and given 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:32.800 Miami struggles, I don't know that the heat would be 0:16:32.920 --> 0:16:33.200 in the. 0:16:33.160 --> 0:16:35.360 Market for two All Stars. They got bam At a 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:35.880 bio in. 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:40.120 I mean, look again, these are not my snubs per se, 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:43.240 but you just can't you know, people love to say 0:16:43.280 --> 0:16:55.480 that that Derek White and Porzingis were candidates, but I I. 0:16:52.160 --> 0:16:53.520 Really don't see it. In the East. 0:16:53.680 --> 0:16:58.440 To me, the most significant snubs were Trey and Jared 0:16:58.480 --> 0:16:59.720 Allen on my scorecard. 0:17:01.000 --> 0:17:03.920 I cann't argue with that. I'll throw mckill bridges in 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:04.520 there as well. 0:17:11.960 --> 0:17:12.600 The East is. 0:17:12.640 --> 0:17:16.160 Likely looking at two injury replacements. And that's because again, 0:17:16.240 --> 0:17:19.399 the biggest story of the night in the NBA the Sixers. 0:17:19.480 --> 0:17:23.480 In the midst of all of those All Star unveilings 0:17:23.520 --> 0:17:27.920 earlier tonight on TNT, the Sixers announced that an MRI 0:17:28.240 --> 0:17:32.280 revealed that Embiid has sustained quote an injury to the 0:17:32.359 --> 0:17:36.879 lateral meniscus in his left knee end quote. No formal 0:17:36.960 --> 0:17:41.720 timetable has yet been established, but the Sixers say Embiid 0:17:41.880 --> 0:17:45.480 at the minimum out through the weekend while a treatment 0:17:45.560 --> 0:17:53.000 plan is finalized. You covered that game Tuesday night for TNT. 0:17:53.640 --> 0:17:55.879 What did you see? I mean it sure didn't. 0:17:55.920 --> 0:18:01.240 Even before the the scramble that left him hobbled and. 0:18:01.200 --> 0:18:03.240 Forced to leave the game for good. He he did 0:18:03.280 --> 0:18:04.320 not look good, did he. 0:18:06.280 --> 0:18:13.480 I watched him workout pregame, so this would be It's 0:18:13.600 --> 0:18:16.640 be about thirty five minutes before thirty five to forty 0:18:16.680 --> 0:18:20.439 minutes before they took the court for the game. He 0:18:20.480 --> 0:18:24.320 did not look good. I was he he warmed up 0:18:24.320 --> 0:18:29.080 for about fifteen minutes. Based off of that, I was like, 0:18:29.119 --> 0:18:31.960 he's not playing, He's not playing, and then I ended 0:18:32.040 --> 0:18:35.639 up walking him to I need. I ended up walking 0:18:35.680 --> 0:18:38.880 behind him back to the locker room after his pregame 0:18:38.920 --> 0:18:43.640 warm up, and then I can see him telling people, Yeah, 0:18:44.080 --> 0:18:47.600 I'm gonna try to give it a go. I was surprised. 0:18:48.440 --> 0:18:50.840 He did not look good. He was not moving good. 0:18:51.400 --> 0:18:56.160 So I know he's hearing about how he's ducking smoke 0:18:56.760 --> 0:19:00.360 ducked the Denver game. And you know, the Philly they were, 0:19:01.080 --> 0:19:06.479 they were fine recently for how they handled not you know, 0:19:06.720 --> 0:19:12.440 not reporting in a timely fashion uh MB's injury which 0:19:12.480 --> 0:19:16.840 caused him to not play that game. It was the 0:19:16.920 --> 0:19:22.840 last weekend against the Denver Nuggets, late scratch. I know 0:19:22.920 --> 0:19:25.439 he's hearing everything. I know he's hearing the criticism. I 0:19:25.520 --> 0:19:29.880 felt like the way he looked, I felt like he 0:19:30.040 --> 0:19:34.000 was really trying to like give it a go, to 0:19:34.160 --> 0:19:39.240 show everybody that he can play through pain. I just 0:19:39.320 --> 0:19:42.879 don't think that was the time to do it. But 0:19:42.920 --> 0:19:46.159 what I will say is about you know, you know, 0:19:46.200 --> 0:19:48.920 we talked about the sixty five game rule to become 0:19:49.080 --> 0:19:52.919 MB excuse me, to be eligible for the MVP and 0:19:53.080 --> 0:19:56.439 to be eligible for First Team All NBA. This is 0:19:56.640 --> 0:19:59.800 sources close to MB told me this. They said he 0:19:59.840 --> 0:20:04.719 had two goals going into this season. Number one was 0:20:04.720 --> 0:20:07.040 to try to become the best player in the NBA. 0:20:07.600 --> 0:20:11.359 He wanted to establish himself as the best player, and 0:20:11.440 --> 0:20:14.240 I think he was in line of doing that. You 0:20:14.880 --> 0:20:21.199 pointed out his points, His point stats aligned with his minutes. 0:20:22.920 --> 0:20:25.840 You know, he's playing at a historical pace, so he 0:20:25.920 --> 0:20:31.239 was on pace of doing that. And number two was 0:20:31.320 --> 0:20:35.280 to go into the playoffs healthy and it was not. 0:20:36.680 --> 0:20:41.280 There was no goal of winning any individual awards, and 0:20:41.359 --> 0:20:44.240 so he was going to make sure this season, if 0:20:44.640 --> 0:20:48.720 there was anything bothering him, he might be able to play. 0:20:49.080 --> 0:20:50.520 You know, he might be able to play through it. 0:20:50.600 --> 0:20:54.359 But he's taking a cautious approach because he felt like 0:20:55.200 --> 0:20:58.040 he really hurt the team going into the playoffs, hurt 0:20:58.480 --> 0:21:02.560 last year, and that's what he wants to accomplish. He 0:21:02.600 --> 0:21:06.320 wants to win a championship, and so those are his goals. 0:21:06.320 --> 0:21:09.840 So this whole sixty five. It's not happening. Even before 0:21:09.880 --> 0:21:13.320 this injury, it wasn't happening. He wasn't going to reach 0:21:13.400 --> 0:21:16.560 that goal. He was going to play it safe, play 0:21:16.680 --> 0:21:20.359 when he feels pretty damn close to one hundred percent 0:21:20.760 --> 0:21:24.960 and give us best. But if there's any concern, he 0:21:25.040 --> 0:21:27.639 was going to err on the side of caution and 0:21:27.720 --> 0:21:30.200 sit out because he wants to be healthy for his 0:21:30.280 --> 0:21:31.800 team in the playoffs. 0:21:33.480 --> 0:21:37.840 So it sounds though, like he violated his own agenda 0:21:38.480 --> 0:21:41.280 by playing in the Golden State game. I mean, because 0:21:41.320 --> 0:21:44.040 now I think he took so much cheat for not 0:21:44.080 --> 0:21:46.879 playing in Denver. But like when you saw how he 0:21:46.960 --> 0:21:49.400 looked first half against the Warriors. 0:21:49.480 --> 0:21:50.560 He shouldn't have been playing. 0:21:50.600 --> 0:21:53.160 I mean, he you know, he wasn't on the injury 0:21:53.160 --> 0:21:57.520 report by all accounts, at his insistence. He told the Sixers, 0:21:57.960 --> 0:22:00.000 by all accounts, don't put me on there. I'm gonna 0:22:00.040 --> 0:22:02.280 play in Denver. Shouldn't have played in that game. He 0:22:02.280 --> 0:22:04.159 shouldn't have played in the Warriors game. And now the 0:22:04.280 --> 0:22:11.000 question will be is this injury so serious that he 0:22:11.119 --> 0:22:14.919 can't be healthy for the playoffs. That's obviously that is 0:22:14.960 --> 0:22:17.760 the only thing that matters at this point. Doesn't matter 0:22:17.760 --> 0:22:19.320 how much time he misses for the rest of the 0:22:19.320 --> 0:22:23.840 regular season, with Maxie an All Star named an All 0:22:23.840 --> 0:22:26.520 Star tonight for the first time with MAXI, you have 0:22:26.600 --> 0:22:31.320 to believe that the Sixers will make the playoffs even 0:22:31.480 --> 0:22:35.280 if they're missing Embiid for a mess of games, but 0:22:35.880 --> 0:22:39.840 just having him healthy for the playoffs. I mean, we 0:22:39.880 --> 0:22:43.280 obviously don't know much at this point. It's just hard 0:22:43.320 --> 0:22:44.560 to see that right now. 0:22:47.240 --> 0:22:50.200 Yeah, to your point, I do think Philly they will 0:22:50.240 --> 0:22:57.479 be okay with missing mb with chunks of games of 0:22:57.480 --> 0:23:00.560 being sidelined. I think they'll be fine because you know, 0:23:00.560 --> 0:23:03.159 if they're they're tough, If they are a team that 0:23:03.200 --> 0:23:05.679 finishes in the top five in the conference, I still 0:23:06.280 --> 0:23:09.920 feel like they believe that they would still like their chances. 0:23:11.000 --> 0:23:13.920 But that that's that's where his head is at. That's 0:23:14.160 --> 0:23:16.199 that's what it was told. That's what was told to me. 0:23:16.840 --> 0:23:20.919 His head is on, you know, trying to maximize and 0:23:20.960 --> 0:23:23.359 take his game to the next level. But he's going 0:23:23.440 --> 0:23:25.520 to err on the side of caution all throughout the 0:23:25.560 --> 0:23:28.040 season to make sure that he is he's as healthy 0:23:28.080 --> 0:23:31.520 as possible going into into the playoffs because he understands 0:23:31.560 --> 0:23:35.639 that's where he's going to be That's where he's going 0:23:35.720 --> 0:23:38.320 to be greater at. You know, that's what it is 0:23:38.480 --> 0:23:41.639 really going to matter the postseason. And uh and like 0:23:41.680 --> 0:23:47.240 to your point, Yeah, I mean, for whatever reason playing 0:23:47.240 --> 0:23:49.439 in that Golden State game. I think the fact that 0:23:49.440 --> 0:23:52.560 it was that Denver game that was a national televised game, 0:23:52.680 --> 0:23:53.879 right Philly Denver. 0:23:54.040 --> 0:24:00.520 Yeah, Saturday night, and so they were both national Yeah. 0:24:00.600 --> 0:24:04.719 So yeah, so I can see the pressure there that 0:24:04.760 --> 0:24:08.639 he might have felt. But remember Stein, even that game, 0:24:09.200 --> 0:24:12.080 he was just shooting jumpers. You know, he did not 0:24:12.320 --> 0:24:14.800 want to get physically. He had Draymond Green guard and him. 0:24:14.840 --> 0:24:16.920 You know, Draymond is going to hack and fil and 0:24:17.119 --> 0:24:20.480 do whatever to try to muck the game up, and 0:24:20.680 --> 0:24:24.520 b you can tell he wasn't ready for that type 0:24:24.520 --> 0:24:27.639