{"id":174410,"date":"2026-04-24T00:53:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T00:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/174410\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T00:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T00:53:07","slug":"philadelphia-76ers-joel-embiid-participates-in-parts-of-practice-listed-as-doubtful-for-game-3-vs-celtics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/174410\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia 76ers&#8217; Joel Embiid participates in parts of practice, listed as doubtful for Game 3 vs. Celtics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia 76ers star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/fantasy\/basketball\/news\/76ers-joel-embiid-limited-at-practice-529805\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Joel Embiid participated in parts of Thursday&#8217;s practice<\/a> and is <a href=\"https:\/\/ak-static.cms.nba.com\/referee\/injury\/Injury-Report_2026-04-23_06_00PM.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">listed as doubtful for Game 3 against the Boston Celtics<\/a> on Friday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/joel-embiid-surgery-appendicitis-injury-sixers\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Embiid underwent successful appendectomy surgery<\/a> on April 9 in Houston and missed the end of the regular season and Philadelphia&#8217;s first two games vs. Boston in the first round of the playoffs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It remains unlikely Embiid plays against Boston Friday night at Xfinity Mobile Arena, but things appear to be trending in the right direction for the former MVP. Game 4 of the series is on Sunday night in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>Embiid has played through a number of injuries in his Sixers career, especially in the playoffs, where he&#8217;s dealt with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/what-is-bells-palsy-medical-condition-joel-embiid\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bell&#8217;s palsy<\/a>, multiple\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/philadelphia-76ers-center-joel-embiid-out-for-foreseeable-future-with-right-orbital-fracture-mild-concussion\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">orbital bone<\/a>\u00a0fractures, knee injuries and much more.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After the Sixers were crushed in Game 1, they responded in Game 2 and at least made it a series heading back to Philadelphia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>All-Star guard Tyrese Maxey and rookie standout guard VJ Edgecombe combined for 59 points to help the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/boston\/news\/celtics-76ers-edgecombe-maxey-111-97-playoffs\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sixers beat Boston, 111-97, in Game 2<\/a> to even the series.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/philadelphia-76ers-news-vj-edgecombe\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Edgecombe set multiple records<\/a> in the win, including becoming the first rookie to record at least 30 points and 10 rebounds in a playoff game since Tim Duncan on May 5, 1998.  <\/p>\n<p>Still, even if Embiid returns, the Sixers face a steep challenge to beat Boston and advance to the second round.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia hasn&#8217;t defeated the Celtics in a playoff series since 1982.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia 76ers star Joel Embiid participated in parts of Thursday&#8217;s practice and is listed as doubtful for Game&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,1002,71,70],"class_list":{"0":"post-174410","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-philadelphia","9":"tag-philadelphia-76ers","10":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","11":"tag-philadelphia-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174410","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=174410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}