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What’s Joel Embiid timeline to return? What steps should he take? A local surgeon weighs in.

The Sixers entered the NBA playoffs with grand designs on making a deep postseason run and contending for a title. Can Embiid return and keep them on that trajectory?

Sixers center Joel Embiid shoots the basketball while warming up before the the Sixers play the Brooklyn Nets in Game 3 in the first round of the Eastern Conference playoffs on Thursday, April 20, 2023 in New York.
Sixers center Joel Embiid shoots the basketball while warming up before the the Sixers play the Brooklyn Nets in Game 3 in the first round of the Eastern Conference playoffs on Thursday, April 20, 2023 in New York.Read moreYong Kim / Staff Photographer