{"id":527649,"date":"2026-03-08T23:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T23:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/527649\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T23:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T23:15:07","slug":"76ers-star-tyrese-maxey-sidelined-with-right-finger-sprain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/527649\/","title":{"rendered":"76ers star Tyrese Maxey sidelined with right finger sprain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"ca1685ed-b799-53e4-7924-e58ea6eb8f3a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/phi\/philadelphia-76ers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia 76ers<\/a> All-Star guard <a data-player-guid=\"4a24e9cd-a7a5-371b-9148-bef246046609\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4431678\/tyrese-maxey\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tyrese Maxey<\/a> suffered a sprain of his right fifth finger and will be sidelined for the team&#8217;s upcoming back-to-back, the team announced Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Maxey will undergo further testing before a treatment plan is established. The Sixers play at Cleveland on Monday before hosting the Grizzlies on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Maxey injured the finger with less than 30 seconds left in Saturday&#8217;s loss to the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"15096a54-f015-c987-5ec8-55afedf6272f\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/atl\/atlanta-hawks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Atlanta Hawks<\/a>. He collided with a teammate after going for a steal and immediately grabbed at his right hand in pain. He did not finish the game.<\/p>\n<p>The Sixers entered Sunday night one loss back of the sixth-seeded <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"74c23102-8c27-c8e6-ec1b-8a8fd4d42554\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/orl\/orlando-magic\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Orlando Magic<\/a>. They have been without <a data-player-guid=\"d7e5e918-d53f-018e-9d15-f9005b2390ad\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4251\/paul-george\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paul George<\/a> for the past several weeks as he serves a 25-game suspension for violating the league&#8217;s anti-drug program. <a data-player-guid=\"89410119-0011-5ba0-efed-7b0b6c756c23\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3059318\/joel-embiid\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joel Embiid<\/a>, meanwhile, has been in and out of the lineup this season while dealing with knee issues. He has missed the past four games.<\/p>\n<p>Maxey has enjoyed a career season, averaging 29 points and 6.7 assists. He is four games shy of meeting the 65-game threshold to qualify for end-of-season awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia 76ers All-Star guard Tyrese Maxey suffered a sprain of his right fifth finger and will be sidelined&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-527649","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\/527649","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=527649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}