Joel Embiid Feels Like He's ‘not Ready Yet' for Game 1 of Playoffs

One day after Brett Brown said there's "less than 50 percent chance" Joel Embiid returns to the Sixers for the start of the playoffs, the All-Star center himself supported that notion.

"I've just got to take it day by day. I'm not really sure," a masked Embiid said prior to the Sixers' regular-season finale against the Bucks Wednesday. "I'm just following the doctor's instructions. Obviously I want to play, but right now I feel like I'm not ready yet. It's getting there and I've just got to keep working every day."

Embiid suffered an orbital fracture and a concussion in a collision with teammate Markelle Fultz on March 28. He then had surgery for the fracture on March 31.

(More coming ...)

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