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00:05 Odds to win the championship now take a huge hit.
00:08 I mean 42 to 1 Gilbert.
00:10 I mean this this sort of tells you what that injury could mean 23 to 1 to win the Eastern Conference.
00:15 I guess we could play the other side of that though and say, you know, maybe this is the buy time on that, you know,
00:21 like it like truthfully like, you know, you never want to you know, buy a team at their best.
00:25 You want to buy a team at their worst and this is obviously the Sixers at their worst.
00:29 They're going to make the playoffs Max.
00:30 He's going to score more points.
00:31 I mean those things are all going to happen.
00:33 But you know, even when Embiid come comes back if we're looking at this correctly here,
00:39 you know, essentially missing all of February now, we're going into March.
00:43 I mean back to backs are going to be out of the question.
00:45 That's not going to happen.
00:46 And so it's all playoffs or nothing right at this point for Philadelphia just kind of get in and then fight their way in.
00:51 Absolutely and Craig like you said it all has to do with the big fella and how he can play, you know, you think about him.
00:58 This is his eighth season on the floor 10 years since being drafted.
01:01 But this is third meniscus injury.
01:02 It cut his rookie season short.
01:04 He dealt with a meniscus injury in his other knee in 2021.
01:07 And now he's dealing with one in his left knee again that four-week timeline for re-evaluation tells me a lot about the type of meniscus repair that he has done.
01:15 The partial meniscectomy is usually what gets guys back on the floor in four to six weeks.
01:21 So he'll be probably back on the floor.
01:23 They're thinking playoffs, but how effective can he be coming back from this?
01:28 It's been done before but it's not going to be easy, especially picking up the level of play that he had.
01:33 That being said, the level of play that he was playing at was extremely difficult for opposing teams to deal with.
01:40 So if he can get back to 80 to 85% of the player that he was, they have a chance in the Eastern Conference that the door is slightly still open.
01:47 So it could be some value there for sure.
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