Did Joel Embiid get hit with 'dirty' shot from Knicks star after appendectomy?
Did Mikal Bridges hit Joel Embiid in a certain spot on purpose in Knicks vs. Sixers Game 1?
Joel Embiid has made an incredible comeback from an appendectomy to lift the Philadelphia 76ers into the Eastern Conference semifinals against the New York Knicks . But maybe he's not fully healed from the surgery, as we saw in Game 1 -- in the second quarter, Mikal Bridges rammed into a screening Embiid and hit the Sixers star in the stomach. Embiid immediately grabbed that area in pain and was writhing for a few moments.
After the game, Embiid was asked about the play and had this to say: "I don’t know if it was dirty or not. I guess I got to do a better job of protecting my [stomach]. " "I don’t think that was necessary," he added, "But we move on.
It's whatever, it’s playoff basketball, if that's the reality of it, I guess we got to be physical too and do it too. ” Joel Embiid: “I don’t know if it was dirty or not. I guess I got to do a better job of protecting [myself].
“I don’t think that was necessary…But we move on. It’s whatever. It’s playoff basketball…I guess we got to be physical too and do it too.