Do Joel Embiid and the Philadelphia 76ers have a comeback in them against the Miami Heat?

There was a time when Philadelphia 76ers star Joel Embiid was a must-follow on Twitter. Whether it was trolling opponents or asking Rihanna out on a date, Embiid's early social media game was often ahead of his on-court game.

As his talent blossomed the past two seasons — he's one of three finalists for the NBA's Most Valuable Player Award for the second year in a row — he has pulled back quite a bit.

But late Wednesday afternoon, Embiid posted something to an anxious Sixers fan base eagerly awaiting any morsel of information about his concussion, fractured orbital bone and chances of playing at home Friday in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference semifinals (7 p.m. ET, ESPN).

On the surface it was just a standard Embiid tweet about Real Madrid, and Embiid always tweets about his favorite soccer club. His past six tweets have been about Real Madrid, so a tweet about Real Madrid's epic 3-1 comeback victory against Manchester City on Wednesday — in stoppage time, no less — is not the part that stands out.

It's that Embiid was tweeting at all after experiencing four days of concussion symptoms: sensitivity to light, dizziness and headaches that, sources close to the situation told ESPN, made it difficult to watch anything on his phone or television.

On Wednesday though, sources said Embiid was able to not only watch Real Madrid's win on his phone, but FaceTime with Sixers coach Doc Rivers and catch his team's 119-103 loss to the Miami Heat in Game 2, which dropped them into an 0-2 hole in the best-of-seven series.

To get back into this series, however, Philadelphia will need Embiid to stage a remontada (Spanish for comeback) of his own and find a way to play with two injuries — the orbital fracture and a torn ligament in his