Sure, there are still major questions.We haven’t seen Simmons play a single game in the NBA, and Fultz isn’t even technically a 76er yet — though that clearly seems like a technicality at this point. For Embiid, he has forced us to tack the Madden Mobile Coins qualifier “if healthy” onto every conversation we have about him because we’re still not sure he can stay injury free the rest of his career.But we’re allowed to imagine the best-case scenario first.
It starts with Embiid, who could be a top-five player in the Buy MUT 18 Coins league and the best player on a championship team if his health permits it. We lauded Embiid’s performance in his 31 games last year, and we still might be underselling him: He was right with Rudy Gobert as the best rim defender in the league while scoring 20 points on 58 percent True Shooting Percentage.
In Embiid’s last four seasons (including his year in Kansas), he missed a couple completely and suffered season-ending injuries in the other two. That’s a terrible track record, and there’s not much the 76ers can do but pray this isn’t a Greg Oden story —because when Embiid is healthy, he’s a player unlike any we’ve ever really seen. Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty Images Fultz and Simmons add elite playmaking to Philadelphia — two players who can share point guard duties.
(Yes, the 76ers are planning to Maddenvip play Simmons at point guard, not just use him as a point forward.) Fultz has a strong off-the-ball game and there should be plenty of room for the two players to coexist, especially with solid secondary players like Robert Covington and Dario Saric already on the roster.The hype train always travels on frictionless tracks during the NBA offseason.
