{"id":496472,"date":"2026-02-28T23:35:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T23:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/496472\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T23:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T23:35:07","slug":"joel-embiid-to-miss-at-least-3-games-with-a-strained-right-oblique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/496472\/","title":{"rendered":"Joel Embiid to miss at least 3 games with a strained right oblique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">PHILADELPHIA (AP) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/joel-embiid\/794508\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/joel-embiid\/794508\" target=\"_blank\">Joel Embiid<\/a> will miss at least three games because of a strained right oblique, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/philadelphia-76ers\/20\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/philadelphia-76ers\/20\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia 76ers<\/a> said Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Embiid was hurt during the 76ers\u2019 124-117 victory over Miami on Thursday night and the 76ers said an MRI exam Saturday revealed the injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Embiid won\u2019t play Sunday in Boston, then will be evaluated again after the 76ers play back-to-back home games Tuesday and Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The star center had 26 points and 11 rebounds Thursday and averaged 29 points in February, tops in the Eastern Conference. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (AP) \u2014 Joel Embiid will miss at least three games because of a strained right oblique, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-496472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496472","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=496472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}