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Congress Is Trying To Ban TikTok. Younger Americans Don’t Like That.

By Cooper Burton

Mar. 31, 2023, at 6:00 AM

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The latest trend taking Congress by storm? A nationwide TikTok ban.

A congressional hearing went viral last week, as lawmakers from both parties grilled TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew for five hours over a range of issues, from how the app protects Americans’ data from being accessed by China to how it screens potentially harmful content from minors. Congress already banned TikTok from government devices in December, but lately it has seemed poised to go a step further. In early March, a bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced a bill that would allow the Biden administration to ban foreign companies it considers a national security risk (read: TikTok), and this week House Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced that the chamber would be advancing legislation to restrict the app. And it’s not just Congress that’s targeting the app — bills banning TikTok have been sweeping through state legislatures this year as well. 

Polling suggests the American public generally supports these proposals. A YouGov/Yahoo News poll conducted March 16-20 showed that a majority of American adults supported a nationwide ban on TikTok, with 53 percent in favor and 25 percent opposed. A Quinnipiac poll conducted March 9-13 found slightly more opposition (42 percent) but still a plurality (49 percent) in favor. While these polls didn’t ask about the specific bills that have been proposed in Congress, the general sentiment seems to favor a ban. 

Among younger Americans, though, these proposals are not very popular. According to a recent Washington Post poll, adults ages 18-34 are the most opposed to a nationwide ban on TikTok, with only 28 percent in favor, 40 percent against and 34 percent unsure. And in that Quinnipiac poll, 63 percent of adults in the same age range opposed a ban, almost the exact opposite of the 60 percent of adults age 65 and over who favored one. 

Young Americans might be so opposed to these bans because they use the app much more frequently than their older counterparts. As the only member of Gen Z at FiveThirtyEight, I naturally watched the live congressional hearing last week on TikTok. And it seems I’m far from alone among my generation in my use of the app: A SocialSphere poll from March 22 showed that 71 percent of Gen Zers have an active TikTok account, more than millennials, who landed at just 43 percent. 

It’s perhaps only natural that the Americans who use TikTok the most would be the most opposed to banning it. But that doesn’t mean young people aren’t worried about the security of the app. According to a CivicScience poll conducted March 9-13, 56 percent of adults ages 18-24 were either “very” or “somewhat” concerned about privacy risks associated with using TikTok. And in the SocialSphere survey, 61 percent of Gen Zers and millennials reported that they were concerned about TikTok being owned by a company with close ties to the Chinese government.

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Some progressives have voiced concerns that these fears play into old tropes, with a few like Rep. Jamaal Bowman criticizing the bans as “fearmongering” and rooted in xenophobia against China. Opposition from some progressives might not be enough to derail a ban, though, as the bills introduced so far have enjoyed solid bipartisan support. In the meantime, if anyone knows of another place I can watch congressional hearings one second and get served funny dog videos the next, feel free to reach out; I might need to find an alternative pretty soon. 

Other polling bites 

• Sad news for us data nerds: According to respondents of a recently released December YouGov poll, statistics was ranked the least interesting college major, with 42 percent of adults calling it “not interesting.” Criminal justice had the lowest percentage of respondents who called it “not interesting,” at just 18 percent. When respondents were asked which majors they would pick if they were pursuing a college degree today, a plurality (20 percent) chose computer science.
• Baseball fans are happy with some of the new changes coming to the sport this season. According to a YouGov/Seton Hall Sports Poll conducted March 6-9, 45 percent of adults and 65 percent of MLB fans support the addition of a pitch clock to speed games up. Thanks largely to the pitch clock, spring-training games through mid-March were around 25 minutes shorter on average than all spring training games last year. 
• Amid a record-breaking year of anti-LGBTQ legislation, much of which targets transgender individuals, 78 percent of transgender adults say that transitioning has made them happier than before, according to a recently released survey from the Washington Post and the Kaiser Family Foundation, conducted November-December 2022. Additionally, 64 percent of respondents said that they have been verbally attacked because of their gender identity or expression. Slightly more than half of respondents (53 percent) said that they had a happy childhood, much lower than the overall share of Americans (81 percent) who said the same.
• As the COVID-19 pandemic recedes, the share of college students who have considered withdrawing from their program for at least one term in the past six months has increased to 41 percent, according to a recently released Gallup/Lumina Foundation poll, up from 34 percent in 2020. Fifty-five percent of students listed “emotional stress” as their reason for wanting to drop out, while just 14 percent cited COVID-19. Those numbers are flipped from 2020, when 46 percent of students listed COVID-19 as the reason and only 36 percent cited emotional stress. 

Biden approval

According to FiveThirtyEight’s presidential approval tracker,¹ 42.6 percent of Americans approve of the job Biden is doing as president, while 53.3 percent disapprove (a net approval rating of -10.6 points). At this time last week, 42.7 percent approved and 52.8 percent disapproved (a net approval rating of -10.1 points). One month ago, Biden had an approval rating of 43.2 percent and a disapproval rating of 52.0 percent, for a net approval rating of -8.8 points.

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It was March 2005, and Alex Tuttle couldn't contain himself. After a down year, the Seattle Mariners were about to kick off their season with some legitimate hype. Over the winter, they'd signed stars Adrián Beltré and Richie Sexson. They'd hired a proven winner in manager Mike Hargrove. They still had Ichiro. And best of all, a pitching prospect in Tacoma named Félix Hernández was waiting to take his crown.

Was this a perfect team? By no means. But it was a new year, a new beginning. So on opening day, Tuttle fired off an email to some fellow M's fans. “Hope springs eternal,” the then-25-year-old Mercer Island native wrote.

“I suppose I was just really feeling that naive sense of optimism at that time and wanted to share it with my friends,” Tuttle, a senior assistant city attorney for Renton, says now.

The Mariners finished that season 69-93. It was a slight improvement over the year before. It was also the beginning of something: a ritual, a creative exercise, a community. Every year since 2005, Tuttle has composed a "Hope Springs Eternal" email to mark the start of baseball season in Seattle. The list of recipients has grown from a handful of pals to a few dozen acquaintances to hundreds of people.

The nature of the emails has also changed. You probably know that, until recently, Tuttle’s email coincided with a historic run of futility by the Mariners. As losing seasons went by, the email evolved from a celebration to a meditation, from a meditation to a plea. Tuttle grew into his thirties, and then his forties, and the Mariners kept losing. They lost through cross-country moves, new jobs, breakups, marriage, parenthood. With each passing year, hope seemed more elusive, and yet more necessary.

“Back in the early days it was a way to connect with my friends over baseball,” Tuttle says. “Now it really is more than that; it’s about these bigger themes. It’s about hope generally and coming of age and all that. It’s a way to connect with people I don’t talk to all the time because you lose touch.”

Tyler Besecker, who went to high school with Tuttle, has been receiving the emails since the beginning. They don't see one another as often as they'd like, but Besecker looks forward to the email every year, in part because it captures the personality of his friend: witty, optimistic, and cerebral. The one thing they don't fully capture? "Alex is very loud. He's a loud rooter. He's got a booming voice, especially when he wants to heckle somebody." 

In time, the emails began to stretch further afield, covering everything from the British geologist Percy Fawcett’s fatal search for a lost city in the Amazon to the origin of the Han dynasty in China. But they have always built, in a roundabout way, to that same line, borrowed from the poet Alexander Pope: “Hope springs eternal.” 

"Now it really is more than that; it’s about these bigger themes. It’s about hope generally and coming of age and all that." - Alex Tuttle

I first encountered Tuttle’s emails in 2010, via my wife’s cousin Charles, who went to law school with him. That year’s edition was full of optimism about new Mariners general manager Jack Zduriencik, who had supposedly built the team into a contender. (They would finish the season 61-101.) Eventually, I made it onto the recipient list myself.

The beauty of the emails, for me, was the discipline Tuttle had in coming back to his central belief, which was really the promise of sports fandom everywhere: that anything can happen. The emails were funny and over-the-top and also deeply reflective. They somehow had the feeling of a spiritual practice. “I honestly wondered if I would eventually disintegrate into an old codger, bouncing his grandchildren on his knee and boring them with stories of all the heartbreaking losses over the years,” he wrote in 2015, before launching into a rousing story about the repeated business failures that Harlan Sanders suffered before the launch of Kentucky Fried Chicken. For every winter, there is a spring.

This spring, opening day feels different for the Mariners. They reached the playoffs last season for the first time since 2001. There’s a superstar on the roster in Julio Rodríguez with more charisma and potential than anyone this city has seen since Ken Griffey Jr. The team is exciting, the vibes are good, and for the first time in a long time, fans don’t have to talk themselves into the improbable chance that this could be the year, because it plainly could.

Tuttle sees the same energy in Seattle that lit his passion for baseball in the 1990s. “I was coming of age and the Mariners were really good. I thought at one time, ‘They’ll never be bad again.’ I think that feeling is still inside me. It’s getting harder to access, though.”

The email is getting harder to write, too.

“In order to write well, I think, you really have to connect with the material,” he says. “It needs to tie together. It needs to mean something. It needs to have that right tone. It’s kind of an emotional process, the way I do it.”

The emotion, of course, is what keeps Tuttle and his readers coming back every year. And it will probably keep them coming back for years to come. For as challenging as the email is, Tuttle figures he will keep doing it at least until the Mariners, the only MLB team to never appear in a World Series, finally win one. Even that would not necessarily be the end.

He recalls watching the Seahawks in the Super Bowl some years ago, wearing his gear and yelling, and all the while simply knowing that, on some deep-down level, he was only going through the motions. It wasn’t the Mariners. It wasn’t baseball.

“You’ve gotta care,” he says. “You can’t just summon those emotions and those feelings. I couldn’t ever write a Seahawks email. I just couldn’t.”

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Congress Is Trying To Ban TikTok. Younger Americans Don’t Like That. - FiveThirtyEight

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Congress Is Trying To Ban TikTok. Younger Americans Don’t Like That.

By Cooper Burton

Mar. 31, 2023, at 6:00 AM

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Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly polling roundup.

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The latest trend taking Congress by storm? A nationwide TikTok ban.

A congressional hearing went viral last week, as lawmakers from both parties grilled TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew for five hours over a range of issues, from how the app protects Americans’ data from being accessed by China to how it screens potentially harmful content from minors. Congress already banned TikTok from government devices in December, but lately it has seemed poised to go a step further. In early March, a bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced a bill that would allow the Biden administration to ban foreign companies it considers a national security risk (read: TikTok), and this week House Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced that the chamber would be advancing legislation to restrict the app. And it’s not just Congress that’s targeting the app — bills banning TikTok have been sweeping through state legislatures this year as well. 

Polling suggests the American public generally supports these proposals. A YouGov/Yahoo News poll conducted March 16-20 showed that a majority of American adults supported a nationwide ban on TikTok, with 53 percent in favor and 25 percent opposed. A Quinnipiac poll conducted March 9-13 found slightly more opposition (42 percent) but still a plurality (49 percent) in favor. While these polls didn’t ask about the specific bills that have been proposed in Congress, the general sentiment seems to favor a ban. 

Among younger Americans, though, these proposals are not very popular. According to a recent Washington Post poll, adults ages 18-34 are the most opposed to a nationwide ban on TikTok, with only 28 percent in favor, 40 percent against and 34 percent unsure. And in that Quinnipiac poll, 63 percent of adults in the same age range opposed a ban, almost the exact opposite of the 60 percent of adults age 65 and over who favored one. 

Young Americans might be so opposed to these bans because they use the app much more frequently than their older counterparts. As the only member of Gen Z at FiveThirtyEight, I naturally watched the live congressional hearing last week on TikTok. And it seems I’m far from alone among my generation in my use of the app: A SocialSphere poll from March 22 showed that 71 percent of Gen Zers have an active TikTok account, more than millennials, who landed at just 43 percent. 

It’s perhaps only natural that the Americans who use TikTok the most would be the most opposed to banning it. But that doesn’t mean young people aren’t worried about the security of the app. According to a CivicScience poll conducted March 9-13, 56 percent of adults ages 18-24 were either “very” or “somewhat” concerned about privacy risks associated with using TikTok. And in the SocialSphere survey, 61 percent of Gen Zers and millennials reported that they were concerned about TikTok being owned by a company with close ties to the Chinese government.

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Some progressives have voiced concerns that these fears play into old tropes, with a few like Rep. Jamaal Bowman criticizing the bans as “fearmongering” and rooted in xenophobia against China. Opposition from some progressives might not be enough to derail a ban, though, as the bills introduced so far have enjoyed solid bipartisan support. In the meantime, if anyone knows of another place I can watch congressional hearings one second and get served funny dog videos the next, feel free to reach out; I might need to find an alternative pretty soon. 

Other polling bites 

• Sad news for us data nerds: According to respondents of a recently released December YouGov poll, statistics was ranked the least interesting college major, with 42 percent of adults calling it “not interesting.” Criminal justice had the lowest percentage of respondents who called it “not interesting,” at just 18 percent. When respondents were asked which majors they would pick if they were pursuing a college degree today, a plurality (20 percent) chose computer science.
• Baseball fans are happy with some of the new changes coming to the sport this season. According to a YouGov/Seton Hall Sports Poll conducted March 6-9, 45 percent of adults and 65 percent of MLB fans support the addition of a pitch clock to speed games up. Thanks largely to the pitch clock, spring-training games through mid-March were around 25 minutes shorter on average than all spring training games last year. 
• Amid a record-breaking year of anti-LGBTQ legislation, much of which targets transgender individuals, 78 percent of transgender adults say that transitioning has made them happier than before, according to a recently released survey from the Washington Post and the Kaiser Family Foundation, conducted November-December 2022. Additionally, 64 percent of respondents said that they have been verbally attacked because of their gender identity or expression. Slightly more than half of respondents (53 percent) said that they had a happy childhood, much lower than the overall share of Americans (81 percent) who said the same.
• As the COVID-19 pandemic recedes, the share of college students who have considered withdrawing from their program for at least one term in the past six months has increased to 41 percent, according to a recently released Gallup/Lumina Foundation poll, up from 34 percent in 2020. Fifty-five percent of students listed “emotional stress” as their reason for wanting to drop out, while just 14 percent cited COVID-19. Those numbers are flipped from 2020, when 46 percent of students listed COVID-19 as the reason and only 36 percent cited emotional stress. 

Biden approval

According to FiveThirtyEight’s presidential approval tracker,¹ 42.6 percent of Americans approve of the job Biden is doing as president, while 53.3 percent disapprove (a net approval rating of -10.6 points). At this time last week, 42.7 percent approved and 52.8 percent disapproved (a net approval rating of -10.1 points). One month ago, Biden had an approval rating of 43.2 percent and a disapproval rating of 52.0 percent, for a net approval rating of -8.8 points.

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Google Cloud's Sovereignty Explorer: Why Aren't There More Tools ... - Acceleration Economy

As companies are accelerating the rollout of data-powered business models while countries and regions tighten regulations around data usage and deployment, Google Cloud has introduced a simple but powerful online tool to help businesses optimize their data-sovereignty initiatives.

While reading about this innovation from Google Cloud, a fundamental question kept surfacing: why aren’t the incredibly capable companies in the Cloud Wars Top 10 developing more — lots more —self-service explore-and-evaluate tools like this?

I’ll come back to that in a moment, but first, let me share a few details about Google Cloud’s new Digital Sovereignty Explorer. Here’s an excerpt from a Google Cloud blog post introducing the interactive solution.

Designing a digital sovereignty strategy that balances control and innovation is challenging because: 

• Foundational concepts are not always well-understood, including regulatory requirements, legal safeguards, and risk management.
• Many organizations struggle to articulate specific requirements, particularly when it comes to how sovereign strategies enable digital transformation.
• Choosing the best potential technologies and solutions for your organization’s needs can be difficult. 
• A shortage of advisory capacity and expertise in the market can make these challenges even harder to overcome.

While those are all key insights, there are larger forces at play here that add an extreme degree of urgency and strategic significance to this outline: first, every large and mid-sized business in the world is racing to develop data-powered business models, products, services, partnerships, and cultures. Second, at the very same time, many countries as well as some broader regions are rolling out detailed and often complex regulatory policies around data privacy, data residency, data usage, data movement, and more.

So as you look at those four points outlined by Google Cloud, you need to be sure you’re not viewing those as guidelines for a “study group” or “exploratory panel” that will chit and chat and dither for six months before releasing a 300-slide “feasibility proposal” calling for a 2-year project.

And that, my friends, is the road to ruin. Today’s business environment calls for speed, decisiveness, and a willingness to jump in early while having the flexibility and nimbleness to adapt and optimize along the way.

In some ways, that’s exactly what Google Cloud’s Sovereignty Explorer is all about. From the blog post:

Explorer is an online, interactive tool that takes individuals through a guided series of questions about their organizations’ digital sovereignty requirements. It seeks to simplify terms and explain important concepts. 

At each step along the way, the Explorer aims to help you to clarify key considerations and tradeoffs in your digital sovereignty options, to understand available solution options, and to make more informed choices about potential solutions for your particular cloud workloads. 

Final Thought

As I mentioned above, this interactive tool from Google Cloud seems like an ideal example for a range of personalized and intelligent engagement services aimed at businesses looking to move into or optimize their current environments.

So why doesn’t some Cloud Wars Top 10 company jump in with:

• Cybersecurity Digital Explorer?
• Business Acceleration Digital Explorer?
• Supply-Chain Optimizer Digital Explorer?
• Bulldoze-the-Silos Digital Explorer?
• Cloud-Optimizer Digital Explorer? And even
• Which Database Is Right For You Digital Explorer?

I think lots of customers would perceive a great deal of value in such offerings.

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To hear more data modernization, AI/hyperautomation, cybersecurity, and growth strategies from CIO practitioners, tune into Acceleration Economy’s Digital CIO Summit, which takes place April 4-6. Register for the free event here.

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While Lamar Jackson got a message to Patriots owner Robert Kraft about his interest in playing for New England, it seems the organization doesn’t intend to take it any further than that.

Boston Sports Journal’s Greg Bedard on Tuesday evening poured cold water on the speculation linking Jackson to the Patriots. The longtime Patriots reporter shared how, barring unforeseen circumstances, the team is not expected to pursue Jackson whether that be by a signing or trade, citing three league sources.

Bedard shared how the overall cost it would take to acquire Jackson, both in terms of the two first-round draft picks New England would need to give up and the long-term contract it would have to offer the 2019 NFL MVP, is not something the franchise is interested in.

Back when Jackson was given the non-exclusive franchise tag by the Baltimore Ravens earlier this month, fellow Patriots reporter Mark Daniels of MassLive.com reported the team was not interested in pursuing him.

Since then, however, especially with Jackson making his trade request public Monday just before Kraft fueled the fire with his message, rumors have ramped up involving the Patriots.

Unfortunately for those hoping Bill Belichick would pull off a blockbuster for Jackson, it doesn’t seem that will be the case.

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Fall and winter weigh down your closet with heavy faux furs, leathers, and shearlings. The best part about spring is the freedom it brings to shed a layer and replace your base with something lightweight, breathable, and stylish — a trio of characteristics perfectly met by a satin button-down blouse, as proven by Jennifer Hudson.

On a recent episode of The Jennifer Hudson Show, the American Idol star wore her own version of the shirt, a lilac purple number, which she layered under a glitzy purple cardigan. She dressed the look down a notch with light-wash jeans, but it still screamed spring sophistication.

In fact, Hudson may have gotten the button-down shirt memo from her fellow TV host Drew Barrymore, who has implemented the style as part of her own daytime talk show uniform. Last year, she stepped out in late summer wearing an emerald green version paired with brown trousers, a moodier take on the trend.

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Injuries happen, but it doesn’t have to go like THIS, does it? This is all so Sixers - Liberty Ballers

We just can’t have nice things, right?

It was literally just nine days ago when Joel Embiid dropped 38 on the Charlotte Hornets and hung 31 on the Pacers the very next night.

At that point, the league’s leading scorer had surpassed both Giannis Antetokounmpo and Nikola Jokic for MVP favorite. And it was just starting to feel as if he might really win this thing.

Oddsmakers clearly thought so, and the discourse had flipped dramatically ever since Embiid outplayed Giannis in Milwaukee earlier in the month, securing a huge win. Fans reasonably had their heart’s set on stealing second place from a Celtics group that went 5-5 during a key stretch the Sixers went 9-1.

Then came a fateful home game against the Chicago Bulls, a game which looked, on paper, like the team’s easiest win of the regular season remaining on their sick, deranged, unfair (wahh) back-loaded schedule.

That’s where things started to fly off the rails. If you’re familiar with the current injury situation regarding Philadelphia’s two best players, feel free to skip on ahead.

If you’re not, we’ll start with recaps on Harden and Embiid’s respective ailments and how they might have been mismanaged.

James Harden’s Achilles

In that first Chicago ballgame, the double OT loss on March 20, James Harden would appear to be in some significant pain. Starting in the second quarter, after a tough fall, he’d be slow to get up, and limp a bit.

If we do wind up hearing James Harden is dealing with a foot or something, here’s another look at that play where he appeared shaken up. pic.twitter.com/LAz98Mket9

— DaveEarly (@DavidEarly) March 21, 2023

By the second half, he was an absolute shell of himself, finishing an abysmal 2-of-14 with just five points in the 109-105 loss.

Many of us wondered why Doc Rivers continued to leave Harden in the ballgame if he wasn’t going to really play much on either end of the floor. He deferred his usual point guard duties to basically anyone else, and certainly wasn’t a big plus on defense.

Even just one of Shake Milton or Danuel House Jr. could have helped them secure a monster win in the standings, and simultaneously save James from some additional pressure on that tendon!

Harden missed 14 games with a right foot strain earlier this year. He strained it in the first quarter of a game vs. the Wizards in November, and would get treatment in the locker room, then somehow be permitted to play another 30-plus minutes on that foot, which would later cost him a month of play!

How many less games might he have missed if they’d simply pulled him as soon as he got hurt, playing things cautiously last November? Might they be in position for the two seed right now? They have the best record in the league since he returned to the lineup on Dec. 5. So what if he didn’t have to miss quite so much time?

Around January, James would pop up on the injury report with left (the other foot) heel soreness.

Harden and Embiid were great down the stretch but both limping around at times for the second game in a row. Harden's right leg, Embiid maybe both feet at times. (Harden missed time w/ foot strain earlier this year, wonder if that's bugging him again). pic.twitter.com/lwDZyh48xG

— DaveEarly (@DavidEarly) January 15, 2023

The 2018 MVP would miss the occasional second of a back-to-back, listed with “foot soreness,” or “injury management.” He got two rest days with those designations in this month of March.

Doc Rivers would admit after the double-OT loss vs. Chicago that he felt Harden’s foot was “hurting” during that game.

Why The Beard was permitted to total 47 minutes in that game is a wild question to have to ask this late in the year.

Why was he permitted to play roughly 30 more minutes, after first signs of clear discomfort on an achey foot, for the second time this season, leading to missed games? The team is pretty careful with Joel Embiid. Not so much with Harden, though, right?

If Harden had been pulled immediately after he showed signs of ailing, might he have been able to go for one of the last two road losses?

Curiously, now it seems James is set to return vs. the Denver Nuggets, even though Joel Embiid will not be active.

James Harden (Achilles) participated in shoot-around this morning and remains on track to return vs. Nuggets tonight, sources tell ESPN. Harden has missed three straight games. https://t.co/KceSmWObfS

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) March 27, 2023

The Sixers likely don’t have the firepower to beat the West’s top seeded team with Harden at less than full strength, ramping back up.

The prudent thing last week was to pull him from the Bulls game. The prudent thing today is to give him one more night off.

On left what D. Morey said on @RTRSPodcast in Feb. On the right was my issue w/ that process, re: Tucker

Harden logging 47 min in a game he was dealing w/ an Achilles is more of the same challenge. If a guy is medically cleared & wants to play that's Sixers only check/balance? pic.twitter.com/xpTR3zwYQW

— DaveEarly (@DavidEarly) March 21, 2023

It’s fair to wonder if the Sixers have the right process here for injury/load management.

Embiid’s calf

Just as we were coming around to the idea Harden’s health was the biggest story, we got another chartreuse and pink sneaker to the face.

Embiid looked pretty awesome vs. the Bulls last Monday. But he fouled out and couldn’t help the Sixers in the second overtime period.

Apparently, we’d learn Joel felt some tightness in his calf that Monday game, the first of two games they’d face the Bulls.

But in the second meeting, he would never emerge from the half. In fact, fans went nearly the entire third period wondering where the heck the front-runner for MVP was.

We’d later Zapruder the game and find this stuff:

Joel Embiid has mild right calf tightness. He did not play second half. He is expected to play Friday. Doc Rivers says he is not concerned but they are going on a long flight with 3 more games on West Coast and out of precaution they sat Joel second half
pic.twitter.com/l9MARHnzlJ

— John Clark (@JClarkNBCS) March 23, 2023

The full quotes on that situation were included in this analysis here, thanks to reporting from The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Gina Mizell.

Even though Embiid had felt this calf on Monday, we’d get this odd “score differential” update for why he was not returning to a 28-point game, before later hearing it was in fact calf tightness.

The optics of the whole thing felt very... well, as our Paul Hudrick wrote, “man, this is all so Sixers.” And Hudrick is right.

If they knew he was dealing with a calf since Monday, they could have skipped the “score differential” bit and been more upfront.

The fact that now Embiid is missing a crucial showdown with Nikola Jokic and the Denver Nuggets is all the evidence one needs to understand he’s genuinely limited here.

Embiid not being ready to go here is such a surprise that former Liberty Baller Derek Bodner now has to find a way to slow cook himself some Wilson:

Joel Embiid (calf), James Harden (Achilles) and Danuel House Jr (shoulder) are all listed as questionable for tonight's game against the Nuggets.

If Joel Embiid misses the game I'll eat a basketball.

Jalen McDaniels (hip) is no longer listed on the injury report.

— Derek Bodner (@DerekBodnerNBA) March 27, 2023

So with news the calf is still a thing, it’s not simply hindsight to say Joel should not have played in both of the last two back-to-back road losses.

Many of us debated last week how the team should handle that slate.

With a back-to-back beginning in Golden State, before a trip to Phoenix which one of the two should Joel rest in we wondered?

With an MVP on the line, we know he wants to be out there for the showdown vs. Nikola Jokic and the Denver Nuggets Monday. So, what was the best strategy?

If Joel sat vs. the Warriors (winners of 12 of their last 13 at home) they could have increased their chances at the more winnable game in Phoenix (losers in five of their prior six games, playing on the second night of a back-to-back, having already ruled out Deandre Ayton and Kevin Durant).

With the Cleveland Cavaliers hot on the Sixers’ tails for the third seed, that made the most sense in my opinion.

But since Joel opted to go in Golden State, then it made sense to rest him during the game vs. Phoenix. Embiid looked fatigued/achey right from the jump in that one.

The Inky had the postgame quotes from Joel himself:

“I’m going to need [a night off] pretty soon. It’s two things. Like I said, it’s all about [being healthy] for the playoffs. You know, like tonight, I was very sloppy. Usually when I’m sluggish and sloppy that means I’m tired. I’ve been playing a lot of minutes, I’ve been playing every single game.”

To make matters worse, Embiid logged 38 and then 32 minutes in each of the b2b.

The Crown Jewel of The Process was still in down by 18 with just over four minutes to play vs. the Suns!!! Holy orbital PTSD, Batman.

Per Woj, and Shelburne Monday:“Embiid did try to give it a go at the shootaround Monday morning, but the Sixers decided to give him some rest. Monday’s game in Denver is the Sixers’ third in four nights.”

Hopefully this is all more precautionary than a mounting issue, but Joel must be pretty sore to agree to miss this one.

Optics and the MVP race

Then on Monday, we get a bit of an MVP optics thing.

Joel, who hasn’t really done much if any campaigning for MVP, seemed to finally acquiesce, agreeing to speak with Shams Charania of the Athletic.

Joel hit on many of the “right” notes, reminding us he’s ultimately focused on a title, not the regular season awards.

But Joel did take the bait and found a couple ways to tacitly put Nikola Jokic down.

Joel Embiid hitting us with these incredibly quotes the morning of his final head-to-head matchup with Nikola Jokic is legitimately the greatest thing ever…

Embiid really is one of us lol pic.twitter.com/5EOckvVg8O

— Josh Reynolds (@JoshReynolds24) March 27, 2023

As our Sean Kennedy put it:

“While Embiid makes a point to mention Jokic deserved the award last year, bringing up defense and analytics right afterwards would seem to be another shot at the big man in Denver....The line about guys that have won two MVPs reads to me as yet another small shot fired at Jokic. While Embiid certainly makes efforts to be diplomatic throughout the interview, you can kind of see where his true thoughts on the matter break through for some mildly spicy content. Luckily, we get to see things play out on the court, rather than the page, tonight in Denver.”

Joel even “liked” this old tweet from 2018 about head-to-head matchups being the key to deciding who is the GOAT. Talk smack, back it up. Let the chips fall where they may.

But the timing here is pretty bad with the knowledge he isn’t healthy enough to play, after some apparent smack talk, and won’t get the chance to back that up on primetime.

Some bozos will inevitably claim he’s “ducking” Joker.

So the MVP odds have tightened with the news Adrian Wojnarowski and Ramona Shelburne reported that Embiid won’t suit up tonight with that tight calf:

Embiid's MVP odds are now significantly lower, FWIW.

He's only +100 on FanDuel (was -145) and Jokic is +125 (was +195).

— Bryan Toporek (@btoporek) March 27, 2023

And Joel’s recent comments will no doubt add fuel to the MVP discourse:

Embiid should just go be awesome and let us do the whining on his behalf. We've got so many years of practice.

— Spike Eskin (@SpikeEskin) March 27, 2023

Joel Embiid hit us with the, “I don’t care about awards,” while doing a Q&A campaigning for himself to win awards lol. https://t.co/T1aquiRSCF

— Josh Eberley (@JoshEberley) March 27, 2023

In my opinion, too many mistakes were made here.

So many mistakes were made here. First the Sixers won’t even say he has a calf injury vs. Chicago, then insist he’s fine and play him in a B2B, costing him the biggest game of the year.

And if you’re Embiid, you just can’t do all that yapping to Shams and then sit out.

— Mike O'Connor (@MOConnor_NBA) March 27, 2023

All in all, the team, from the top on down to the stars, messed up.

If they knew Harden was managing some pain in his left foot for the better part of the last few months, they should have pulled him the second it was clear he wasn’t helping the team because of that issue.

It’s the second time this year they’ve let Harden play way too long on an injury.

For Joel, if they knew he was hurting Monday, why didn’t they let us know right away his issue popped up again on Wednesday at the half? Why didn’t he get a night off in Golden State? And if not that one, then at least Phoenix? Why was he allowed back into a game down 15-plus so late?

The star players probably have a fair amount of say with this stuff. But like an ace closer deep in the 9th inning, there needs to be checks and balances so they don’t overdo it.

But don’t worry, with Embiid out maybe we’ll get to see a fair amount of Dewayne Dedmon, you know, the player the Sixers finally used their last roster spot on after waiving Isaiah Joe.

I think Embiid fully intended to play when he made those comments, but just woke up feeling extra tight and is making the right, but very difficult call to sit out.

Ultimately, it’s disappointing but if Embiid isn’t right, a day of rest is better than letting him push on a developing soft-tissue injury. Hopefully the back-to-back runner up MVP is OK for the next home game vs. Dallas on Wednesday or Toronto on Friday. Hopefully tightness hasn’t evolved into a strain because those take time to heal.

I say just rest James one more night. And while you’re at it, maybe sneak in a rest day for Tyrese Maxey too. Dude has played six games in nine days, topping 40 minutes twice. P.J. Tucker (ankle) didn’t look great in Golden State.

Embiid can still come back and win MVP. This team can still win a championship. And if they do, we can all look back at this stuff and enjoy it as one of the many low points when nobody believed in this group. That will make it all the more fun.

The other way to look at it is the injury load mismanagement may wind up hurting Embiid’s MVP chances, and could cost this team a top two (or even three) seed. His subtle smack talk sure looks worse with him missing this ballgame too.

So for now, yeah man, this is all so Sixers.

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