{"id":246701,"date":"2025-08-23T09:39:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T09:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/246701\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T09:39:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T09:39:23","slug":"76ers-preparing-for-post-joel-embiid-era-with-young-stars-insider-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/246701\/","title":{"rendered":"76ers Preparing For Post-Joel Embiid Era With Young Stars: Insider"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aug 20, 2025 11:31 PM EDT<\/p>\n

The Philadelphia 76ers<\/a> are hopeful that they win a championship while Joel Embiid<\/a>\u2019s body can still handle the long NBA<\/a> grind. Over the past few seasons, Embiid has struggled to stay healthy. That has always been part of the Cameroonian center\u2019s usual journey in any campaign.<\/p>\n

However, it has started to get worse. Last season was arguably the toughest for Embiid since he was only available for 19 games<\/a>. It was disappointing for the 76ers since they also had Paul George, forming a Big 3 with Tyrese Maxey.<\/p>\n

With the injuries starting to pile up on Embiid, it\u2019s not a surprise that the 76ers have a backup plan. Fortunately for the organization, the youth they were able to acquire in recent years are their fallback option.<\/p>\n

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Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid, in plain clothes, dribbles the ball. \u2014 Source: \u00a9 Bill Streicher-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

David Aldridge Says the 76ers Are Preparing For a Post-Embiid Path<\/p>\n

NBA insider David Aldridge explained how Maxey, Jared McCain and VJ Edgecombe could be the next chapter for Philly. But for now, the longtime journalist said that the 76ers are optimistic Embiid can overcome his injury issues.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can definitely see a post-Embiid skeleton coming into shape in Philly, with McCain, Maxey and Edgecombe becoming a potentially wildly fun trio in the coming years,\u201d Aldridge wrote<\/a>. \u201cFor now, Philly still holds out hope that the 31-year-Embiid can finally recover after getting shut down the last seven weeks of the regular season to have his meniscus repaired.\u201d<\/p>\n

Maxey has already proven that he can be one of the best guards in the league. He earned his first All-Star appearance<\/a> in 2024 and won the Most Improved Player of the Year award. McCain, meanwhile, surprised everyone with how he played. He even finished with one third-place vote<\/a> in the Rookie of the Year ballot.<\/p>\n

The only unproven player in the 76ers\u2019 young core is Edgecombe, since he hasn\u2019t played an NBA game.<\/p>\n

About the Author<\/p>\n

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Reign Amurao<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug 20, 2025 11:31 PM EDT The Philadelphia 76ers are hopeful that they win a championship while Joel…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3769],"tags":[679,4718,41907,7,1255,41903,936,41906,41905,6,678,207,3817,1263,41904,41902],"class_list":{"0":"post-246701","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-76ers","8":"tag-76ers","9":"tag-76ers-news","10":"tag-all-76ers","11":"tag-basketball","12":"tag-jared-mccain","13":"tag-jared-mccain-news","14":"tag-joel-embiid","15":"tag-joel-embiid-injury","16":"tag-joel-embiid-news","17":"tag-nba","18":"tag-philadelphia","19":"tag-philadelphia-76ers","20":"tag-philadelphia76ers","21":"tag-tyrese-maxey","22":"tag-tyrese-maxey-news","23":"tag-vj-edgecombe-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115077419364717977","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}