If Joel Embiid Stays Healthy: The Ballad of the 2016-17 Philadelphia 76ers

If Joel Embiid stays healthy, there is no single way in which he won't make the Sixers better. You don't need to watch much of the team's preseason action for this to become blindingly obvious: The team's spacing, ball-moving, transition game, half-court defense, and rebounding will all rise with him on the court and ebb with him off it. He'll make them more versatile, more coherent, more physical, faster, tougher, smarter. They'll get in the penalty within the first six minutes; they'll demoralize guards from driving anywhere near the basket just as quickly. ...