He broke the navicular bone in his right foot just before the 2014 draft, when the Sixers selected him with the No. 3 pick - that, after suffering a stress fracture in his back late in his season at Kansas. The broken bone and the surgeries it required have kept him on the sideline since. His younger brother Arthur died in October 2014 in an accident. Think about that time line: From 2011 through 2015, Embiid lived on two continents, in three states, and in four cities, and over those four years he saw his mother and father only when they buried his brother. All of that, and he is still just 22. No wonder the kid craved stability. No wonder he considered staying at Kansas, perhaps just to cultivate some.