“You have been on the Rights to Ricky Sanchez podcast, and Brian Windhorst of ESPN picked up on one thing you stated, the place you stated, ‘If Joel Embiid comes again, you assume 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 feel I gave a five-minute reply and it acquired pulled into — I’m certain if issues go effectively for you, John, we’ll get pulled into a pair clips out of it. Should you take heed to my complete 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 question I got was, like, is he going to be the backup big someday for the 76ers — and I really just 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