Some sort of unrelenting hex appears to be stalking rookies of the Philadelphia 76ers, and Joel Embiid may be starting to believe.
On Tuesday, the Sixers star tweeted an apparent reaction to the rough news that rookie teammate Zhaire Smith had fractured his foot and needed surgery.
CURSE #NUTS
— Joel Embiid (@JoelEmbiid) August 7, 2018
Curse or not, the pattern is getting pretty eerie for Philly. Smith now looks poised to join the list of Sixers’ first-round picks who had to redshirt most, if not all, of their rookie seasons due to injury. That list includes Markelle Fultz, Ben Simmons, Nerlens Noel (who is no longer on the team), and Embiid himself (who missed his first two NBA seasons with injury).
Embiid has joked about his own health before, but it’s decidedly less funny when your teammates seem to go down like clockwork every single summer.
