After Jimmy Butler spent less than a full season with the team, the Philadelphia 76ers traded him during the 2019 offseason. Butler has been on the Miami Heat ever since, but it's no secret that Joel Embiid and Jimmy Butler wish things had gone differently.

Both stars have expressed a desire to play together again. After knocking the Sixers of the 2022 NBA Playoffs, Butler said, “I still wish I was on his team.”

Embiid feels the same way. “I won’t sit here and say I didn’t wish he was my teammate. Still don’t know how we let him go. I wish I could have gone to battle with him still,” he said following the Sixers-Heat series.

While this seems out of reach at this point, Kendrick Perkins discussed the possibility of a reunion in Philadelphia with 6abc sports anchor Ducis Rodgers.

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“Those two guys need to be reunited and it doesn't need to be in South Beach. It needs to be in Philly. Those two guys want to play with each other, period, point-blank. They're not even hiding it. They're telling you…I actually want to see them play with each other, but I want to see it happen in Philly.”

He said that it's Embiid's job as the franchise player to make the reunion happen.

“See, it's easy to go out there and be the franchise guy on the floor when you're averaging 30 points and almost 11 rebounds. That's the easy part. But when you gotta make those hard decisions to go sit in that front office and say ‘Hey, make this happen, I need for this to happen,'” Perkins said. “And you know what, the front office is going to listen to him. The owners are going to listen to him, because the one person you don't want to piss around here is the Big Philly.”