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Could Five Doctors Keep Sixers' Joel Embiid From Being The Next Greg Oden?

Cesar Tordesillas   |

Aug 20, 2015 08:21 AM EDT

The Philadelphia 76ers assembled a team of five doctors to work on Joel Embiid's bone-graft surgery on the navicular bone in his right foot in effort to avoid another setback. Doctors Martin O'Malley, Richard Ferkel, Dufetti Fufa, Jonathan Glashow and Sixers team physican Christopher Dodson did the three-hour procedure on Embiid at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York.