76ers' Mike Gansey provides extremely encouraging Joel Embiid update originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here.Philadelphia 76ers president of basketball operations Mike Gansey provided an extremely encouraging update on star center Joel Embiid, who is taking full advantage of his first healthy summer in several years.Embiid has been hampered by knee injuries in recent offseasons, but this year that hasn't been the case."Joel is great. This is like the first summer I think in a while that he's been healthy, so he's been in the gym working out. He's been lifting weights. He's extra motivated. He wants to play a lot of games, and he's excited about the group we've built now," Gansey said of Embiid."Even before these trades and LeBron, I think he was excited. So he's motivated to have a good year and he's ready to go."This update from Gansey is almost identical to an update provided recently by Sixers head coach Nick Nurse.Joel is still unbelievably talented. He looks fantastic by the way, hes having a great summer, probably for the first time in a couple summers, Nurse said.Hes in shape, hes active, and hes feeling much better to get out on the floor and to get in the weight room and stuff like that, and hes still a great offensive hub.The Sixers made some major additions this offseason in the form of Jaylen Brown and LeBron James, but Embiid will still be an enormous piece of the puzzle for the team to reach its ceiling, so these latest updates from key members of the organization are obviously promising.More NBA news:V.J. Edgecombe gets brutally honest about expectations for Philadelphia 76ersJaylen Brown breaks silence on playing with LeBron James on Philadelphia 76ersChet Holmgren gets brutally honest about Thunder's offseason departuresFormer Los Angeles Lakers star named most overrated player in NBAJalen Brunson declined to recruit LeBron James to New York Knicks