Kelce on Sixers' handling of Embiid: 'Postseason should be focus, but confused by rest to open season'
Jason Kelce spoke about the Philadelphia 76ers' handling of Joel Embiid to begin the 2024-25 NBA season.
"Well, first of all the strategy should be to try and improve the usage and playing time of Joel to maximize him for during the postseason because that's the only thing, that really, this Sixers' team is trying to prove left," Kelce told the 94WIP Morning Show during his weekly Thursday (7:30-8:30am) in-studio appearance. "If they don't make it there it's a colossal train wreck. But Joel has obviously played unbelievable in the regular season. He's been arguably the best player in the league. In the postseason is where things have kind of fallen apart, not just for him, for the team. That's their focus and I think that should be their focus.
"What's unique about this situation is, typically with rest you're talking about after a guy has been through a grueling schedule or like they're wore down so we're going to give them some time off. This is like to open the season, that's what is really just hard to wrap your head around. There's got to be something that is causing them to give him rest because you wouldn't just do it with a guy who is completely fresh to start the season."
Kelce, 36, was drafted by the Eagles in 2011, three years before the Sixers selected Joel Embiid in the 2014 NBA Draft.
