76ers not yet ready to rule Joel Embiid out for season

The 76ers are still not ready to rule rookie center Joel Embiid out for the season, according to The Intelligencer. In fact, alll Philadelphia coach Brett Brown will do is say Embiid, who is recovering from a stress fracture in his foot, will not be back until after the mid-February All-Star game.

“We're not prepared to give any further timeline right now,” Brown said. “I go right back to how we handled (Noel) Nerlens. I think everybody's got to see how we're treating our guys and the risk involved when somebody is not 100 percent, especially with a man of (Embiid's) size.”

Embiid has been doing standstill shooting and off-court cardio work to improve his conditioning.

“It's been well-documented we're trying to get him in the shape that he knows he has to be, weight-wise etc., and that will reflect when we deliver him to the court and the marketplace,” Brown said. “We won't risk anything.”