{"id":630695,"date":"2026-04-26T22:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T22:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/630695\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T22:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T22:46:08","slug":"joel-embiid-in-starting-lineup-for-76ers-in-game-4-against-the-celtics-17-days-after-an-appendectomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/630695\/","title":{"rendered":"Joel Embiid in starting lineup for 76ers in Game 4 against the Celtics 17 days after an appendectomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">PHILADELPHIA (AP) \u2014 Joel Embiid made a surprise return to the Philadelphia 76ers on Sunday night, back in the starting lineup for Game 4 of their first-round playoff series against the Boston Celtics only 17 days after having an appendectomy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Embiid was starting for the first time since April 6, and the two-time NBA scoring champion hopes to spark a Sixers team that trails 2-1 in the best-of-seven Eastern Conference series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Embiid was listed as doubtful to start the day and was upgraded to questionable after going through his pregame workout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 32-year-old Embiid averaged 26.9 points and 7.7 rebounds this season after playing in only 19 games in 2024-25. He hasn\u2019t appeared in as many as 40 games in a regular season since 2022-23, when he averaged a career-best 33.1 points and earned MVP honors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Embiid had an appendectomy in Houston on April 9 after Philadelphia\u2019s star big man was stricken with appendicitis overnight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Dan Gelston, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (AP) \u2014 Joel Embiid made a surprise return to the Philadelphia 76ers on Sunday night, back in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-630695","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630695","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=630695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}