James Harden Will Feel the Heat Without Joel Embiid - The Ringer

To get past Miami, Philadelphia will need the former MVP in its backcourt to play like a current one. Can the Beard channel his heyday in Houston?

Joel Embiid was already playing with a ligament tear in the thumb of his shooting hand. Then, in the final minutes of Phillys first-round series, he suffered a concussion and a fractured orbital bone… [+7925 chars]

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