{"id":278892,"date":"2025-11-12T02:04:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T02:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/278892\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T02:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T02:04:08","slug":"philadelphia-76ers-joel-embiid-out-for-tuesdays-game-against-celtics-due-to-right-knee-soreness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/278892\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia 76ers&#8217; Joel Embiid out for Tuesday&#8217;s game against Celtics due to right knee soreness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA (AP) \u2014 Philadelphia\u2019s Joel Embiid sat out Tuesday night\u2019s game against the Boston Celtics due to right knee soreness.<\/p>\n<p>It was the fifth of the team\u2019s 11 contests missed by the 2023 MVP, who is averaging 19.7 points and 5.5 rebounds in 23.3 minutes per game.<\/p>\n<p>He was sidelined in the previous four games while recovering from left knee surgery.<\/p>\n<p>The right knee soreness is new, and Philadelphia coach Nick Nurse said there wasn\u2019t a specific incident that could be pinpointed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no certain play,\u201d Nurse said prior to Tuesday\u2019s game. \u201cHe showed up today with some soreness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nurse said Embiid would receive further tests. <\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP NBA: <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (AP) \u2014 Philadelphia\u2019s Joel Embiid sat out Tuesday night\u2019s game against the Boston Celtics due to right&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,1664,37975,590,31647,40756,12446,12274,9688,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-278892","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-boston-celtics","11":"tag-joel-embiid","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-nba-basketball","14":"tag-nick-nurse","15":"tag-pa-state-wire","16":"tag-pennsylvania","17":"tag-philadelphia-76ers","18":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}