{"id":404028,"date":"2026-01-10T11:01:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T11:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/404028\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T11:01:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T11:01:30","slug":"nba-ref-bill-kennedy-exits-76ers-magic-with-apparent-leg-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/404028\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA ref Bill Kennedy exits 76ers-Magic with apparent leg injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ORLANDO, Fla. &#8212; NBA official Bill Kennedy left the court in a wheelchair after suffering an apparent leg injury during the first quarter of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/phi\/philadelphia-76ers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia 76ers<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/orl\/orlando-magic\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Orlando Magic<\/a> game Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy appeared to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HacY5kZ2Fl4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">start limping as he was running down the court<\/a> during a 76ers fast break with about 2\u00bd minutes remaining in the first quarter. He was seen hopping on the baseline as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4251\/paul-george\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paul George<\/a> made a layup to cut Orlando&#8217;s lead to 22-20. Kennedy then called for assistance as the Magic called a timeout.<\/p>\n<p>His right leg was tended to for several minutes before he was wheeled off the court.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy&#8217;s departure left officials James Williams and Michael Smith to work the rest of the game. The 76ers won the game <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/game\/_\/gameId\/401810388\/76ers-magic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">103-91<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. &#8212; NBA official Bill Kennedy left the court in a wheelchair after suffering an apparent leg&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-404028","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-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404028","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=404028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}