{"id":510867,"date":"2026-03-01T02:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T02:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/510867\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T02:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T02:03:09","slug":"joel-embiid-out-at-least-3-games-with-strained-oblique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/510867\/","title":{"rendered":"Joel Embiid out at least 3 games with strained oblique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2080781\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2080781\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/GettyImages-2263888943-scaled-e1772328821575.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1903\" height=\"1070\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2080781\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">76ers center Joel Embiid, injured Thursday against Miami, will miss at least 3 games.<\/p>\n<p>PHILADELPHIA (AP) \u2014 Joel Embiid will miss at least three games because of a strained right oblique, the Philadelphia 76ers said Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Embiid was hurt during the 76ers\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/game\/mia-vs-phi-0022500849\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">124-117 victory<\/a> over Miami on Thursday night and the 76ers said an MRI exam Saturday revealed the injury.<\/p>\n<p>Embiid won\u2019t play Sunday in Boston, then will be evaluated again after the 76ers play back-to-back home games Tuesday and Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The star center had 26 points and 11 rebounds Thursday and averaged 29 points in February, tops in the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"76ers center Joel Embiid, injured Thursday against Miami, will miss at least 3 games. PHILADELPHIA (AP) \u2014 Joel&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,256006,590,85],"class_list":["post-510867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-joel-embiid-out","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510867","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=510867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}