Daily News | How Sixers’ Joel Embiid debunks George Karl’s ‘lazy’ label
DENVER — Bright blue sticky plastic wrap enveloped Joel Embiid’s right lower leg as Monday’s 76ers shootaround concluded, keeping an ice bag pressed against the tight calf he has been dealing with for almost a week.
Embiid is closing in on finishing his second consecutive season as the NBA’s leading scorer , while hitting a career-best 54.5% of his shots and averaging 10.2 rebounds, 4.2 assists and 1.7 blocks per game. Yet perhaps the biggest indicator of Embiid’s two-way dominance is that he entered Monday leading the NBA in real plus-minus , which measures a player’s average impact in terms of net point differential per 100 offensive and defensive possessions.
Embiid ranks outside the top 30 in minutes played at 34.7 per game, which is less than Tatum but more than Jokic and Antetokounmpo . Embiid had already played 61 games this season before Monday’s absence, including several while managing an ongoing foot issue. That has nearly matched his career-high 68 games played last season, including 41 out of 42 from Dec. 15 through March 20.
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