Recently, Embiid was interviewed by ESPN reporter Dotun Akintoye and talked about his repeated knee injuries last season.

The original text read: "The uncertainty about his knee has rekindled the tension that Embiid had with the Sixers' management."

"After months of uncertainty, repeated trial and error and repeated swelling, Embiid could no longer bear it. In February, before a loss to the Milwaukee Bucks, Embiid told ESPN reporter Lisa Saltes that he needed another surgery, which allegedly surprised the team. The Sixers' management admitted the accident during our meeting."

"'If you don't want to listen to me, then I have to find something else to make sure someone will listen to me,' Embiid told me. 'I feel like I was calling for help when I said that to Lisa. … I feel like everyone refuses to admit what actually happened.'"