{"id":382724,"date":"2026-01-02T02:09:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T02:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/382724\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T02:09:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T02:09:07","slug":"sixers-vs-mavericks-final-playing-status-for-big-man-joel-embiid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/382724\/","title":{"rendered":"Sixers vs. Mavericks: Final playing status for big man Joel Embiid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/philadelphia-76ers\/20\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Philadelphia 76ers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Philadelphia 76ers<\/a> will open the new year in Dallas to take on the Mavericks on Thursday as they continue with the fourth of their 5-game road trip. The Sixers are currently 1-2 on the road trip and will look to even everything up before the finale in New York on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Joel Embiid was listed as probable for this contest due to a right ankle sprain and a right knee injury management. He will play against the Mavericks and be joined in the starting lineup by Tyrese Maxey, VJ Edgecombe, Paul George, and Dominick Barlow.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>This will be the sixth game the Sixers will have the Big 3 all play. After Tuesday&#8217;s win over the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/memphis-grizzlies\/29\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Memphis Grizzlies;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Memphis Grizzlies<\/a>, the Sixers are 1-4 with that trio on the floor and will look to keep things moving in the right direction against the Mavs.<\/p>\n<p>Tip off from the American Airlines Center is set for 8:30 p.m. EST.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Sixers Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/sixerswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/sixers\/2026\/01\/01\/sixers-vs-mavericks-final-playing-status-for-big-man-joel-embiid\/87987260007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Sixers vs. Mavericks: Final playing status for big man Joel Embiid;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Sixers vs. Mavericks: Final playing status for big man Joel Embiid<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Philadelphia 76ers will open the new year in Dallas to take on the Mavericks on Thursday as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[1062,760,2118,5555,7741,355,60519,2113,135357,99,37567,7639,2119],"class_list":{"0":"post-382724","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-dallas","9":"tag-dallas-mavericks","10":"tag-dominick-barlow","11":"tag-joel-embiid","12":"tag-memphis-grizzlies","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-paul-george","15":"tag-philadelphia-76ers","16":"tag-road-trip","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-the-mavericks","19":"tag-tyrese-maxey","20":"tag-vj-edgecombe"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}