{"id":166687,"date":"2026-04-15T17:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T17:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/166687\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T17:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T17:15:08","slug":"sixers-facing-orlando-magic-in-crucial-play-in-match-up-southeastern-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/166687\/","title":{"rendered":"Sixers facing Orlando Magic in crucial Play-In match-up | Southeastern Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA &#8211; It&#8217;s a big day in South Philadelphia as the Sixers take the court for a crucial match-up.<\/p>\n<p>But the big question for our Lehigh Valley viewers is\u2014where is Tyrese Martin?<\/p>\n<p>Our cameras caught the former William Allen standout during morning shootaround.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Adem Bona is focused and excited, embracing a bigger opportunity in year two, stepping into an increased role with Joel Embiid sidelined and looking to make the most of his extended minutes.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a while since they&#8217;ve faced the Magic. However, Bona remembers the matchup and weighs in on the challenge of facing Orlando.<\/p>\n<p>Last time the Sixers faced the Magic was on Jan. 9 and won 103-91. Bona did not play in that game.<\/p>\n<p>If the Sixers win Wednesday night, they advance to the playoffs taking on Boston.<\/p>\n<p>If they lose, they still have a chance, they&#8217;ll have to play Charlotte in the other play in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA &#8211; It&#8217;s a big day in South Philadelphia as the Sixers take the court for a crucial&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,7446,726],"class_list":{"0":"post-166687","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-_homepage_top_stories","9":"tag-allentown","10":"tag-allentown-headlines","11":"tag-allentown-news","12":"tag-southeastern-pa","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166687","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=166687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}