Sixers’ Embiid to miss 2015-16 season

However, Embiid is expected to miss the entire next season, reports ESPN.

“If we all do our part, this will end in a way in which Joel can achieve all his dreams for having a really long, really fantastic National Basketball Association career”.

Center Joel Embiid is set to miss the upcoming season after a second surgery on his right foot this week, but the recovery process could keep him out for some of the following season too. Nobody has talked me off of that just yet. We replaced the two existing screws and performed a bone graft of the site using bone from his hip.

“[The bone] has been put in a great position to support full recovery”, wrote Dr. Martin O’Malley, the surgeon guy.

Hinkie said the Sixers would reassess its treatment approach after it proved unsuccessful previous year. The team and Embiid met with doctors throughout the world before going ahead with the second surgery and setting a new course of action.

To think that Embiid’s health issue entering the 2014 draft was a back injury–a lumbar stress fracture called as spondylolysis-suffered four months earlier, automatically evokes memories of Portland Trail Blazers’ No. 1 pick in 2007, Greg Oden.

How the 7-footer from Kansas re-injured his foot is unclear.