“You had been on the Rights to Ricky Sanchez podcast, and Brian Windhorst of ESPN picked up on one thing you mentioned, the place you mentioned, ‘If Joel Embiid comes again, you suppose he’ll be at a excessive degree.’ What did you imply by that? Is there an opportunity?” Daryl Morey: “My sense is he didn’t take heed to my reply. I believe I gave a five-minute reply and it acquired pulled into — I’m positive if issues go nicely for you, John, we’ll get pulled into a pair clips out of it. If you happen to take heed to my entire reply, my level was: Joel cares a lot in regards to the championship, cares a lot about profitable, that when he performs — as a result of the query I acquired was, like, is he going to be the backup massive sometime for the 76ers — and I actually simply don’t see Joel being that. He’s an elite participant. He cares about profitable a lot that he’s going to play at a excessive degree when he comes again.” -via YouTube / Might 15, 2025
