\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Celtics will play the Philadelphia 76ers in the first round of the NBA Playoffs, after the Sixers beat the Orlando Magic in Wednesday night’s Play-In Tournament. Boston and Philadelphia last matched up in the playoffs in the 2023 Eastern Conference semifinals, with the Celtics winning a big Game 7 at home on the back of a Jayson Tatum 51-point performance.According to ESPN, Sixers star center Joel Embiid was diagnosed with appendicitis a week ago and did not play in Wednesday’s game. No timeline has been set for his return, and his status for Game 1 is unknown.The Celtics and Sixers split the 2025-2026 regular season series, winning two games apiece.Game 1 will tip off Sunday afternoon in Boston on WCVB Channel 5 at 1 p.m.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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The Celtics will play the Philadelphia 76ers in the first round of the NBA Playoffs, after the Sixers beat the Orlando Magic in Wednesday night’s Play-In Tournament. <\/p>\n
Boston and Philadelphia last matched up in the playoffs in the 2023 Eastern Conference semifinals, with the Celtics winning a big Game 7 at home on the back of a Jayson Tatum 51-point performance.<\/p>\n
According to ESPN, Sixers star center Joel Embiid was diagnosed with appendicitis a week ago and did not play in Wednesday’s game. <\/p>\n
No timeline has been set for his return, and his status for Game 1 is unknown.<\/p>\n
The Celtics and Sixers split the 2025-2026 regular season series, winning two games apiece.<\/p>\n
Game 1 will tip off Sunday afternoon in Boston on WCVB Channel 5 at 1 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Celtics will play the Philadelphia 76ers in the first round of the NBA Playoffs, after the Sixers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[75352,7472,18989,23034,14710,1421,19779,75349,58958,35633,7027,11827,1132,69,75350,71,70,75351,19737,10167,11929,8401,11621,13702,7176],"class_list":{"0":"post-167157","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-appendicitis","9":"tag-back","10":"tag-big-game","11":"tag-boston","12":"tag-celtics","13":"tag-espn","14":"tag-first-round","15":"tag-game-one","16":"tag-jayson-tatum","17":"tag-lose","18":"tag-magic","19":"tag-orlando-magic","20":"tag-performance","21":"tag-philadelphia","22":"tag-philadelphia-76er","23":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","24":"tag-philadelphia-news","25":"tag-play-in-tournament","26":"tag-playoff","27":"tag-playoffs","28":"tag-score","29":"tag-sixers","30":"tag-team","31":"tag-wednesday-night","32":"tag-win"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167157","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=167157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}