Joel Embiid is reportedly “on track” to return for Game 2 of the 76ers-Celtics semifinal series on Wednesday night.
Fresh off winning the league’s MVP award on Tuesday, Embiid—barring any setbacks—will return to the 76ers’ lineup for the first since spraining his right knee’s LCL during Game 3 of Philadelphia’s opening-round series against the Nets. However, in Wednesday’s episode of First Take, Stephen A. Smith explicitly stated that Embiid’s return for Game 2 “is a mistake.”
“I think it is a mistake,” Smith told JJ Redick and Chris “Mad Dog” Russo. “I don’t think Embiid should play tonight. I think you got the game you wanted in Boston. I think Boston is desperate.
