In the days and hours leading up to the 2014 NBA draft, no one’s stock sunk lower than Joel Embiid’s, the product of recent revelations that the 7’0” Kansas University prodigy had undergone a potential season-ending surgery on his right foot.

Like Nerlens Noel the year before, Embiid—after capping out atop many a mock draft—seemed in danger of slipping deep down the lottery ladder. Instead, it was Noel’s team, the Philadelphia 76ers, who wound up snatching the Cameroonian center at No. 3.

And, like Noel, Embiid may be forced to miss his e...

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