Philadelphia 76ers big man Joel Embiid has been diagnosed with an appendicitis, the team announced Thursday. Embiid will undergo surgery in Houston on Thursday afternoon, per the team.<\/p>\n
The 76ers did not provide any additional details, but said that \u201cfurther updates will be provided as appropriate.\u201d Philadelphia, which has already clinched a spot in the play-in tournament, is set to play the Houston Rockets on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n
Earlier on Thursday, The Athletic\u2019s Tony Jones<\/a> reported Embiid had been feeling ill Thursday morning and was receiving medical treatment as a result.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Full recovery from an appendectomy, the surgery that removes an inflamed appendix, can take up to six weeks, per the Cleveland Clinic<\/a>. The 76ers have three games remaining in the regular season, including Thursday\u2019s matchup against the Rockets, before the playoffs begin.<\/p>\n It\u2019s the latest in a long history of medical issues for the 32-year-old Embiid, who has only played 38 games this season due to various injuries. Embiid started the season with a lengthy absence due to a knee injury<\/a>, before missing time in February<\/a> with a shin issue on top of his knee problems. He missed even more time last month<\/a> with an oblique injury.<\/p>\n This came after Embiid only played in 19 games last season, getting ruled out in February 2025 before undergoing arthroscopic knee surgery<\/a>. Across the past three seasons, Embiid has played 96 of 246 possible regular-season games.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Embiid had only just returned to full form, combining with Paul George for 63 points<\/a> in the Sixers\u2019 win over the Chicago Bulls on March 26. George returned to play last month after serving a 25-game suspension<\/a> for violating the NBA\u2019s anti-drug policy. Additionally, Tyrese Maxey is back after missing three weeks<\/a> with a pinky injury, giving Philadelphia\u2019s roster some much-needed stability.<\/p>\n Philadelphia has a chance to return to the playoffs after missing them last year \u2014 the first time it had missed the postseason in seven years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia 76ers big man Joel Embiid has been diagnosed with an appendicitis, the team announced Thursday. Embiid will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[66140,92808,6385,56,58,57,4854,4853,61157,11720,6403,34721,90890],"class_list":["post-242518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-additional-details","tag-arthroscopic-knee-surgery","tag-chicago-bulls","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-houston-rockets","tag-joel-embiid","tag-paul-george","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-76ers","tag-thursday-morning","tag-tyrese-maxey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}