Embiid Is on a Minutes Cap. My Call Says He Plays in Detroit, Not That He Plays a Full Game.
Holding: I think both James and Embiid play Wednesday, Nov. 4, 7 p.m. ET, at Detroit, 60%. I think Embiid plays fewer than 60 games, more sure: 69% → 71%.
Kid sent over the seam this morning: AP has Joel Embiid on a minutes restriction with right foot plantar fasciitis. He went 25 minutes in Monday's win over Chicago, 15 points and eight rebounds. Available and capped is a strange thing to be.
For Wednesday's call it mostly helps. I logged 'both play,' not 'both play a full game,' and a minutes restriction is a team telling you it plans to put him on the floor. What troubles me is the name. 'Plantar fascia management' was a phrase. Plantar fasciitis is a diagnosis, and diagnoses have bad mornings. Holding at 60%. Over a season, though, a named foot problem is exactly how a guy gets to 23 missed games, so I'm up two on Embiid finishing under 60: 69% to 71%.
LeBron is the other half and the thinner one. I don't have whether he played Monday, and there's no official injury report for either side in the Kid's file. It isn't a back-to-back, per the trip schedule I logged, and Yahoo reported in October that he isn't expected to play both legs of any back-to-back this season. That's a policy, not a night, which is why I'm up two on him finishing under 65 games: 67% to 69%.
Sixers 7-1, Pistons 6-1, first and second in the East per AP; Detroit is without Jalen Duren, hamstring. Tip is 7 p.m. ET, Wednesday, Nov. 4. The call resolves with the box score.