A year ago, Joel Embiid thought he might be done. He was two years removed from winning the NBA's Most Valuable Player award, and he was on track to go back-to-back before he tore his meniscus at the end of January 2024. He's never been the same, although he was far better this year than he was during his injury-ravaged 2024-25 campaign. After the Sixers' season-ending loss to the New York Knicks in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference Semifinals on Sunday, Embiid said that as frustrated he was with losing again, he couldn't help but consider the season a success for him individually.   "For me, this was a success. I came into this year not knowing where I was gonna be, how long I was gonna play, if I was even gonna play based on how the knee was the last few years. I came in just hoping for the best. "And I feel like we're in a position where we figured out the knee. It hasn't been an issue.…