Joel Embiid slated to make season debut against Knicks after suspension for shoving reporter
NY Post
ATLANTA — Joel Embiid’s suspension for shoving a reporter means he’s scheduled to debut against the team that last eliminated him.
The MSG villain served the first of his three-game punishment on Wednesday in Inglewood, Calif., against the Clippers, and the Sixers have two more contests — against the Lakers and Hornets — before a Nov. 12 home game versus the Knicks.
It’s also the opener of the NBA Cup, but Jalen Brunson didn’t want to look past Wednesday in State Farm Arena.
“Focus on Atlanta,” Brunson said before a 121-116 loss to the Hawks. “Focus on the Atlanta Hawks.”
Following Saturday’s Sixers loss to the Grizzlies, Embiid got into a locker-room altercation with Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Marcus Hayes.
Embiid took issue with Hayes’ column criticizing his lack of availability and shouted at the reporter about mentioning his dead brother in the piece before shoving him.
Grading the Giants‘ 20-17 overtime loss to the Panthers in Germany on Sunday.
Giannis Antetokounmpo appeared fed up.
GLENDALE, Ariz. — Aaron Rodgers will be greeted with sunshine and temperatures in the upper 70s on Sunday, ideal conditions for him to sling the football around at State Farm Stadium to Garrett Wilson and Davante Adams when the Jets attempt their desperate run to end their ghastly 13-year playoff drought.
Tom Thibodeau in recent years has slowly eased young players such as Miles McBride and since-traded Quentin Grimes into the Knicks rotation.
A Monster is coming to Major League Baseball, and the Yankees and Mets — and truly all 28 other teams — will be interested.
MUNICH — So many of them fail.
A loss straight from the Lane Lambert playbook and a game the Islanders could ill-afford to give away right as they were getting things back on track.
The Mets failed Carlos Correa on a physical less than two years ago. Correa was a prominent member of the 2017 Astros, the team most repugnant to the Yankees and their fans.
CLEVELAND — The Nets played a back-to-back at the NBA’s reigning champions and league’s only unbeaten. They led both late, before falling agonizingly short.
MUNICH — There are always different and unexpected questions when an NFL team arrives in a foreign country to play a game far, far away from home. There were members of the media from all over Europe this past Friday, all with different accents, interests, agendas and levels of expertise on pass rushes and crossing routes.