{"id":522110,"date":"2026-03-08T08:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T08:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/522110\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T08:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T08:00:07","slug":"sixers-star-tyrese-maxey-suffers-apparent-hand-injury-in-final-moments-of-loss-to-hawks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/522110\/","title":{"rendered":"Sixers star Tyrese Maxey suffers apparent hand injury in final moments of loss to Hawks"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Philadelphia 76ers were playing without Joel Embiid, VJ Edgecombe and Paul George on Saturday night in Atlanta. Then, with less than a minute left in a 125-116 loss<\/a> to the Hawks, Tyrese Maxey suffered an apparent hand injury that head coach Nick Nurse reportedly<\/a> said called for X-rays<\/a>.<\/p>\n

With less than 30 seconds to go, Maxey went for a steal and collided in the paint with teammate Adem Bona, a 6-foot-10, 235-pound big man.<\/p>\n

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Immediately, Maxey grabbed his right hand in pain.<\/p>\n

The two-time All-Star guard walked off the floor with 16.2 ticks remaining, tucking his hand under his jersey as he headed toward the locker room.<\/p>\n

The Athletic’s Tony Jones reported Saturday night that Maxey will receive additional testing on his right finger on Sunday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Nothing conclusive tonight,” Jones wrote on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Maxey came into the game leading the team and ranking fourth in the NBA with a career-high 28.9 points per game.<\/p>\n

He scored 31 points on 12-of-22 shooting in Atlanta for a short-handed Sixers squad. With the loss, Philadelphia dropped to 34-29. The Sixers are now eighth in the Eastern Conference standings and just 1.5 games ahead of the ninth-place Hawks, who improved to 33-31 with Saturday’s pivotal victory.<\/p>\n

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Atlanta got 35 points, 10 rebounds and 7 assists from All-Star forward Jalen Johnson. Nickeil Alexander-Walker chipped in 24 points and went 4 of 9 from deep.<\/p>\n

Embiid missed his 30th game this season, including his fourth straight. His latest issue is an oblique strain<\/a>. The Sixers are 21-12 in the games Embiid has played in this season. They are 13-17 without him.<\/p>\n

They were also missing Edgecombe, as the rookie guard was sidelined by a lumbar contusion he sustained when he fell hard on his lower back after being fouled from behind on a 3-point attempt in a lopsided defeat to the San Antonio Spurs on Tuesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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George still has nine games remaining on the 25-game suspension he received from the league on Jan. 31 for violating the league’s anti-drug program<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Philadelphia 76ers were playing without Joel Embiid, VJ Edgecombe and Paul George on Saturday night in Atlanta.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[22388,24628,505,49,48,19739,14746,9924,1526,459,44387,19748,2696,82,205807,19746],"class_list":["post-522110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-76ers","tag-adem-bona","tag-atlanta","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edgecombe","tag-hawks","tag-jalen-johnson","tag-joel-embiid","tag-nba","tag-nickeil-alexander-walker","tag-paul-george","tag-san-antonio-spurs","tag-sports","tag-tony-jones","tag-tyrese-maxey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}