{"id":550692,"date":"2026-03-28T15:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T15:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/550692\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T15:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T15:58:08","slug":"updated-east-standings-for-sixers-ahead-of-important-hornets-matchup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/550692\/","title":{"rendered":"Updated East standings for Sixers ahead of important Hornets matchup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Philadelphia 76ers have a hugely important matchup with the Charlotte Hornets on Saturday as they continue their race to climb into the top 6 in the Eastern Conference standings. The Sixers are in a great position to make a run as they enter these final nine games relatively healthy with Joel Embiid and Paul George returning to the floor.<\/p>\n<p>Tyrese Maxey has been upgraded to questionable for this matchup&#8211;which is a bit surprising. His original 3-week re-evaluation period is set for the end of March so if he can return, it would be a big lift for Philadelphia against this red-hot Hornets team. The winner of this contest will decide the tiebreaker with Philadelphia only a game ahead of the Hornets in the standings.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Here is a look at the Eastern Conference standings as the Sixers prepare for a showdown in Charlotte:<\/p>\n<p>March 28 East standings<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">X &#8211; Detroit Pistons 53-20 &#8211;GB<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Boston Celtics 49-24 4 GB<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">New York Knicks 48-26 5.5 GB<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Cleveland Cavaliers 46-28 7.5 GB<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Toronto Raptors 41-32 12 GB<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Atlanta Hawks 41-33 12.5 GB<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Philadelphia 76ers 40-33 13 GB (play-in tournament)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Charlotte Hornets 39-34 14 GB (play-in tournament)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Orlando Magic 39-34 14 GB (play-in tournament)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Miami Heat 39-35 14.5 GB (play-in tournament)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Milwaukee Bucks 29-43 23.5 GB<\/p>\n<p>Seeds 12 through 15 are eliminated from any postseason contention.<\/p>\n<p>Next 5 games for Sixers<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Sixers Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/sixerswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/sixers\/2026\/03\/28\/updated-east-standings-for-sixers-ahead-of-important-hornets-matchup\/89361777007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Updated East standings for Sixers ahead of important Hornets matchup;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Updated East standings for Sixers ahead of important Hornets matchup&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Updated East standings for Sixers ahead of important Hornets matchup<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Philadelphia 76ers have a hugely important matchup with the Charlotte Hornets on Saturday as they continue their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[6417,2242,11949,8174,4576,32707,5555,8173,360,355,361,11950,60519,2085,2113,99,6427,2970,7639,99867],"class_list":["post-550692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-atlanta-hawks","tag-boston-celtics","tag-charlotte-hornets","tag-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-detroit-pistons","tag-eastern-conference","tag-joel-embiid","tag-miami-heat","tag-milwaukee-bucks","tag-nba","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-orlando-magic","tag-paul-george","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-76ers","tag-sports","tag-timberwolves","tag-toronto-raptors","tag-tyrese-maxey","tag-wizards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550692","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=550692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}