{"id":126385,"date":"2026-03-01T00:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T00:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/126385\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T00:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T00:20:09","slug":"sixers-joel-embiid-to-miss-at-least-3-games-with-a-strained-right-oblique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/126385\/","title":{"rendered":"Sixers&#8217; Joel Embiid to miss at least 3 games with a strained right oblique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joel Embiid will miss at least three games because of a strained right oblique, the Philadelphia 76ers said Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Embiid was hurt during the 76ers&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/sixers-vs-heat-tyrese-maxey-joel-embiid\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">124-117 victory over Miami on Thursday night<\/a> and the 76ers said an MRI exam Saturday revealed the injury.<\/p>\n<p>Embiid won&#8217;t play Sunday in Boston, then will be evaluated again after the 76ers play back-to-back home games Tuesday and Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The star center had 26 points and 11 rebounds Thursday and averaged 29 points in February, tops in the Eastern Conference. <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joel Embiid will miss at least three games because of a strained right oblique, the Philadelphia 76ers said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5955,4794,69,1002,71,70,726],"class_list":["post-126385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-joel-embiid","tag-nba","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-76ers","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}