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00:00This is yesterday at Sixers practice, Nick Nurse, the head coach, talks to the media.
00:08So there's no Joel Embiid tonight.
00:11The media starts pressing him like, is there a new injury?
00:14Is there something he aggravated in the Olympics?
00:16Is there something, is this just precautionary?
00:19Why isn't he playing?
00:20Like what is going on here?
00:22And let's just say, Nick, eventually, this was after several questions, really didn't
00:27want to hear them anymore.
00:28It's not like the regular season opener.
00:30It's not fun for you guys.
00:33Yeah, I don't know what to say to you, right?
00:35He's in practice, he's looking good, he's progressing, he's not quite ready yet, he'll
00:42be ready pretty soon.
00:43I don't know what else to say to you.
00:46I don't know what else to say to you.
00:49Here's the deal, Mike.
00:50He's got this gigantic knee brace on, and here's the long and short of it.
00:55In the end, they gave him 200 additional million dollars, right?
00:58He's got more money than God.
01:00By the time he's done playing, he'll have made a billion dollars, but I truly believe
01:06he will never last in the NBA because he's got bad knees.
01:10So all I need to know is when a guy has bad knees and he's a 7 foot, 300 pounder, this
01:16is no different than what I just talked about.
01:18When you're 7 foot 2, whatever, 300 pounds, you're impossible to stop until you start
01:24having bad knees.
01:27When you are fat and huge and you have bad knees, it's even worse.
01:30It's compounded by your size.
01:32And I am telling you, that guy, first of all, I can't run to begin with.
01:35He is a walker.
01:37He walks up to court, and then he stands at the 3 and jack shots, and when he's in the
01:43low block, he's impossible to stop because of his size.
01:45But when you have bad knees, it is always 100% the beginning of the end.
01:51I do not believe he'll live through that contract.
01:54I believe his knees will be the end of him, and it will be the end of Kyle Leonard.
01:59I don't disagree with you about his knees.
02:01It's just, I think what the guy was asking, Nick, is right.
02:04This didn't sneak up on you.
02:05You've known for months that this is opening night, tonight.
02:09If you're telling us that he's got no new injury, or he's got this, why did you know
02:13a week ago he wasn't going to play tonight?
02:15What is it, I could get if you woke up today and say, man, my knees are barking today,
02:19and it ain't going to happen.
02:21I can understand them being, and it's Philly media too.
02:24I never tell the media that guys are injured.
02:28It's always a hidden fact.