{"id":578977,"date":"2026-04-01T17:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T17:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/578977\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T17:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T17:25:09","slug":"sixers-joel-embiid-ruled-out-with-illness-for-matchup-with-wizards-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/578977\/","title":{"rendered":"Sixers\u2019 Joel Embiid ruled out with illness for matchup with Wizards \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON \u2014\u00a0While the Sixers\u2019 health picture has improved considerably over the last week, it\u2019s not quite spotless.<\/p>\n

The Sixers ruled Joel Embiid out with an illness late Wednesday morning ahead of their matchup with the Wizards. Rookie Johni Broome (right knee surgery recovery) also remains sidelined.<\/p>\n

Embiid had played in three straight games since returning from a 13-game absence with a right oblique strain. After posting 26 points on 10-for-25 shooting and seven rebounds Monday in the Sixers\u2019 loss to the Heat<\/a>, he told reporters in Miami he was sick, per Sixers Wire\u2019s Ky Carlin.<\/a><\/p>\n

Embiid\u2019s averaged 30.0 points, 6.3 rebounds, 4.0 assists and 1.3 blocks over the last three games. He\u2019s been aggressive offensively and shot especially well from three-point range, hitting 8 of 15 long-distance attempts.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Backup big man Adem Bona had one of his best games this season when the Sixers visited the Wizards on Oct. 28, blocking five shots late in a comeback overtime win.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Sixers entered Wednesday seventh in the Eastern Conference<\/a> at 41-34, one game behind the sixth-seeded Raptors and one ahead of the eighth-seeded Magic. The Wizards are 17-58 and have lost 19 of their last 20 games.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014\u00a0While the Sixers\u2019 health picture has improved considerably over the last week, it\u2019s not quite spotless. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,37975,590,9688,107314,102388,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-578977","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-joel-embiid","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-philadelphia-76ers","13":"tag-sixers-analysis","14":"tag-sixers-news","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578977","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=578977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}