[Bontemps] Doc Rivers says Joel Embiid didn’t do anything today, and “if he’s a betting man, would say he’s doubtful” for Game 1.

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1. Obviously hate to see this and hope Embiid gets better quick but the Celtics better not fuck around and take this opportunity to go up.

2. If he’s there or not we still have to take care of business. Won’t be shocked if we play down their level if he’s not there

3. wish he was playing and at full strength so we didnt have to hear embiid excuses from sixers fans for the sixth straight season

4. who knows, at the end of the day it might not matter that we let that Hawks series go a game longer than it should’ve

5. Honestly this only makes me more nervous. Let’s hope the Cs left all of their fuck around and find out in the first round against Atlanta

6. Just take care of business

7. They could give him two bionic legs and let him play in a gundam, they still getting swept.

8. Better take fucking advantage. Don’t give a fuck about this ethical championship bullshit.

9. Could be gamesmanship. We need to be prepared for Embiid regardless

10. Wonder how much Paul Reed we get or if they go small w Tucker at the 5.

11. Doc knows we’re more likely to lose against a team missing their star, genius coaching.

    Could also be Embiid wanting to make sure he’s healthy for games 3 and 4 (where I’ll assume they’re going to give him MVP? Idk when else).

    Or Doc is a liar. But would a coach lie to the media????

12. This could be good ole gamesmanship but at the very least he’s gonna limited. No excuses to not be up 2-0 heading to Philly

13. Tired of this guy man

14. absolutely need to capitalize

    It’s basically just harden and maxey

15. Embiid is playing folks don’t buy this one bit.

16. Mac McClungs time to shine watch out

17. I don’t believe this

18. Lmao this makes no sense… doubtful is purely judgement it’s not an outcome, you don’t have to be a betting man to make judgements

19. Frustrating that he would have been doubtful for games 1 and 2 if we had just finished out game 5 like we should have, but Cs are going to need to be on point regardless. We all saw what happened in that game 5 when ATL was missing their 2nd best player

20. LCL sprains typically take 4-6 weeks to recover even if he does play on it the Celtics are going to abuse him in the P&R.

21. Celtics defense needs to be better regardless. It was terrible against the Hawks. We were leaving guys open left and right and Philly is shooting the best clip in the league from three.

22. Low-key don’t love this. I think it’s been demonstrated that if you give the Celtics a reason to believe they can relax a little, they play their worst.

23. They still don’t have the wing/guard depth to keep us out of the paint

24. He’s lying. 76ers have no chance of winning without Embiid lol.

25. This sounds like straight up Scooby Doo bullshit.