{"id":133128,"date":"2026-03-09T00:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T00:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/133128\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T00:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T00:18:08","slug":"philadelphia-76ers-all-star-guard-tyrese-maxey-to-miss-at-least-2-games-with-sprained-finger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/133128\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia 76ers All-Star guard Tyrese Maxey to miss at least 2 games with sprained finger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/tyrese-maxey-hand-injury-sixers-hawks-126-116\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Philadelphia 76ers point guard Tyrese Maxey<\/a> will sit out at least the next two games with a sprained finger, and the two-time All-Star will have additional tests to determine how long he&#8217;ll be sidelined, the team announced Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Maxey sprained his right pinkie <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ESPNNBA\/status\/2030458962437345313?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2030458962437345313%7Ctwgr%5E67f33e5d94d7cb57420f78b539adb4daf75caa92%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fsports.yahoo.com%2Fnba%2Farticle%2Fsixers-star-tyrese-maxey-out-for-at-least-2-games-with-sprained-finger-sustained-in-loss-to-hawks-041630683.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">in a collision with teammate Adem Bona<\/a> while going for a loose ball with 16 seconds remaining in the 76ers&#8217; 126-116 loss to the Atlanta Hawks on Saturday night. Maxey immediately grabbed at his right hand, and coach Nick Nurse said after the game that Maxey would have X-rays.<\/p>\n<p>The 76ers said Sunday that Maxey will be consulted after the additional tests to determine a treatment plan. The team added that it would have no further update until after the 76ers&#8217; next two games: at Cleveland on Monday night and home against Memphis on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Maxey, who was selected to his second All-Star team this season, led the 76ers with 31 points against the Hawks before injuring his finger. He&#8217;s Philadelphia&#8217;s leading scorer with 29 points per game, which ranks him fourth in the NBA, while also averaging 6.7 assists and two steals.<\/p>\n<p>The 76ers (34-29) entered Sunday eighth in the Eastern Conference, 1 1\/2 games ahead of the ninth-place Hawks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia 76ers point guard Tyrese Maxey will sit out at least the next two games with a sprained&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[27811,5956,4794,69,1002,71,70,726],"class_list":["post-133128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-atlanta-hawks","tag-basketball","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\/133128","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=133128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}