{"id":587255,"date":"2026-04-05T14:57:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T14:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/587255\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T14:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T14:57:11","slug":"joel-embiid-irked-by-being-ruled-out-wednesday-sits-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/587255\/","title":{"rendered":"Joel Embiid, irked by being ruled out Wednesday, sits again"},"content":{"rendered":"

PHILADELPHIA — Joel Embiid<\/a>, who will not play against the Detroit Pistons<\/a> on Saturday night, said Friday night he was angry at Philadelphia 76ers<\/a> management for not allowing him to play in Washington on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

He was out for Saturday’s game with “right oblique; injury management; [and] illness.” He has not played in both games of a back-to-back all season.<\/p>\n

Embiid was ruled out Wednesday due to an illness. He replied to a reporter’s post on social media that listed him as out by saying that he planned to play. He later posted<\/a>, “I guess they won’t let me play basketball.”<\/p>\n

After a 115-103 win over the Minnesota Timberwolves<\/a> on Friday, Embiid expressed his displeasure with Daryl Morey, the 76ers president of basketball operations.<\/p>\n

“I was pissed off. I wanted to play basketball,” Embiid said. “I wasn’t allowed to play basketball, so I think this is more of a question of Daryl Morey or whoever makes the decisions.”<\/p>\n

Embiid scored 26 points in 34 minutes in a 76ers loss Monday in Miami. He was not listed on the injury report but told reporters that he was ill. “Physically, I just was not in it.”<\/p>\n

He said he had a short night’s sleep before Wednesday’s 153-131 win over the Wizards and wasn’t at a morning film session, after which he was ruled out.<\/p>\n

“I found out online that I wasn’t playing that night,” Embiid said. “That kind of caught me off guard.”<\/p>\n

Embiid was listed as doubtful on Thursday’s injury report for Minnesota, but played 34 minutes, totaling 19 points, 13 rebounds and seven assists.<\/p>\n

Sixers coach Nick Nurse said he wasn’t concerned with the situation, praising Embiid for his play Friday.<\/p>\n

“We handle it by keeping things basketball-related,” Nurse said Saturday before facing the Pistons. “He was at shootaround yesterday; he was excellent in the game yesterday, was really a great teammate and focused and all that stuff yesterday. So we just try to keep it all basketball focused.”<\/p>\n

Embiid has played 37 games this season, sidelined primarily by injury management of his knees. He’s averaged 26.7 points, 7.6 rebounds and 4.0 assists.<\/p>\n

The 32-year-old center missed 13 games after straining his right oblique on Feb. 26 against Miami.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA — Joel Embiid, who will not play against the Detroit Pistons on Saturday night, said Friday night…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-587255","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\/587255","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=587255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}