Joel Embiid Opens Up on Suffering From Bell’s Palsy

Hypothesis as to why Joel Embiid was sporting sun shades indoors and struggling to shut his left eye throughout Recreation 3 in opposition to the Knicks was rampant.

However, longtime NBA insider Adrian Wojnarowski shed some light on the mystery after the Sixers 125-114 win over the Knicks, by revealing that Embiid has been struggling with a situation referred to as Bell’s palsy.

The situation causes sudden weakening of the facial muscle mass on one aspect of the face and may trigger individuals to have bother closing their eye – which is what was occurring to Embiid on the court docket in Recreation 3.

Regardless of his well being points, the large man surprised the Knicks by placing up 50 factors and getting the Sixers an vital first win within the first-round collection.

The Philly star spoke concerning the situation after the sport whereas sporting sun shades.

“I feel it began a day or two earlier than the Miami sport,” Embiid mentioned, whereas including that he’d suffered migraines in addition to the muscle weaknesses.

“It’s fairly annoying,” Embiid mentioned. “My left aspect of my face, my mouth and my eye, so yeah, it’s been robust,” Embiid mentioned, “however I’m not a quitter, so I acquired to maintain preventing by way of something. It’s unlucky, that’s the best way I have a look at it. That’s not an excuse, I acquired to maintain pushing.”

Signs normally begin to enhance inside weeks, and most of the people with Bell’s palsy get better absolutely inside six months.

“With the conversations that I’ve had, it might be weeks, it might be months,” Embiid defined.

However he doesn’t need any sympathy.

“The one factor I’m not gonna do is surrender,” Embiid said. “It doesn’t matter what occurs. Gotta hold pushing, gotta hold preventing. Gotta hold placing my physique on the road for my household, for this metropolis, for this workforce – I can’t simply sit again and really feel unhealthy about myself.”

Since 2018 with the Sixers, Embiid hasn’t been capable of make it previous the Convention Semifinals.