Draymond GreenForward, Golden State Warriors

76ers Fans Need To Give Joel Embiid Some Grace Before Calling Him Washed

3 Dec 2025 · 1 min

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In this YouTube monologue, Draymond Green discusses Joel Embiid's return from a major knee injury, emphasizing that recovery often involves a significant mental component in addition to physical healing. Green notes that many observers prematurely label Embiid as "washed up" or a "shell of himself" after missing most of the previous season. He explains that regaining confidence in one’s ability to jump, explode, and push off is a crucial mental barrier for athletes coming back from knee injuries, especially for a player of Embiid’s size. Green urges fans and commentators to be patient and extend grace during Embiid’s rehabilitation and reintegration into the game, acknowledging the difficulty of returning to elite performance after such an injury.

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when coming back from these injuries, everybody's like, "Oh, it's over, he's done." When you talk about the future of his career, I still think he's special. A lot of people said he looks like a shell of himself. And what I remind you of is this, he missed the majority of last year with a knee injury. Oftentimes when guys are coming off knee injuries, it's sometimes more the mental than the physical. Gaining the belief in, "Oh, I can jump, I can explode fast. It is all right to push off, it is all right to go." It's the mental barrier that a lot of guys has to get over when coming back from these injuries. Everybody's like, "Oh, it's over, he's done." When you talk about the future of his career, I still think he's special. And so I was just saying to people like, have some grace. It takes some time when you're rehabbing from these injuries. It's hard to just, you know, somebody MB's size coming off a knee injury, the way he play and just jumping back into it and like getting right back to it. That's tough.