Embiid frustrated with time limitation

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    76ers coach Brett Brown says he usually sleeps well at night, knowing he and his team did everything in their power to win.

    So some might wonder how he slept Wednesday.

    That's because doing everything in their power to win would have involved playing Joel Embiid in the second overtime of Wednesday's 104-99 double overtime setback to the Memphis Grizzlies at the Wells Fargo Center.

    Brown said late Wednesday night that the outcome would have been different had Embiid played in the second overtime. However, the coach added there was no exception to the rule.

    The team restricts Embiid's playing time because he is recovering from foot injuries that cost him and the team two seasons.

    "There it is, on your bench 10 feet from me," Brown said of being tempted to play Embiid. "It's very tempting. But you just can't do it.

    "It's a bigger world than we are living in. It's a far greater vision, a much longer vision that we see. Really games like tonight, as much as it stings and as much as he was close by and plays at the level that we saw, it's just not wise to do it."

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