This is defenitely not good news for a guy compared to Yao Ming for the wrong reasons.
According to reports out of Philadelphia, Joel Embiid actually re-broke the same bone in his right foot, that sidelined him for his entire rookie season.
“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.”
The team initially stated that Embiid’s “right foot revealed less healing than anticipated.”