{"id":469957,"date":"2026-02-10T05:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T05:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/469957\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T05:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T05:37:08","slug":"philadelphia-76ers-star-joel-embiid-sits-out-against-trail-blazers-to-rest-knee-after-off-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/469957\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia 76ers star Joel Embiid sits out against Trail Blazers to rest knee after off day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/philadelphia-76ers\/20\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/philadelphia-76ers\/20\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia 76ers<\/a> star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/joel-embiid\/794508\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/joel-embiid\/794508\" target=\"_blank\">Joel Embiid<\/a> did not play against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/portland-trail-blazers\/22\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/portland-trail-blazers\/22\" target=\"_blank\">Portland Trail Blazers<\/a> on Monday night to rest his right knee after an off day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Embiid is averaging 26.6 points, 7.5 rebound and 3.9 assists this season. He has played in 31 games after being limited to 19 games last year and 39 games the previous season. The 7-foot center scored 33 points in a win at Phoenix on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In Portland, the Sixers also ruled out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/quentin-grimes\/1132827\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/quentin-grimes\/1132827\" target=\"_blank\">Quentin Grimes<\/a> and Quentin Dominick because both had an illness. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Philadelphia was also missing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/paul-george\/469218\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/paul-george\/469218\" target=\"_blank\">Paul George<\/a>, who was recently suspended 25 games for violating the terms of the NBA\u2019s anti-drug program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Sixers host the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/new-york-knicks\/18\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/new-york-knicks\/18\" target=\"_blank\">New York Knicks<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) \u2014 Philadelphia 76ers star Joel Embiid did not play against the Portland Trail Blazers on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-469957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469957","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=469957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}