{"id":530377,"date":"2026-01-11T22:34:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T22:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/530377\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T22:34:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T22:34:17","slug":"sixers-injury-news-joel-embiid-downgraded-vs-raptors-on-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/530377\/","title":{"rendered":"Sixers injury news: Joel Embiid downgraded vs. Raptors on the road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO &#8212; 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> are getting set to take on the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/toronto-raptors\/28\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Toronto Raptors;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Toronto Raptors<\/a> on Sunday for the first night of a back-to-back looking to continue climbing up the standings in the East. They enter Sunday&#8217;s contest just half a game back of the Raptors for the No. 4 seed in the standings.<\/p>\n<p>The Sixers have decided to sit Joel Embiid out for Sunday&#8217;s contest due to left knee injury management and left groin soreness. When considering the Sixers will face the Raptors again on Monday to finish their 3-game trip, it makes sense for the big fella to sit one of these games.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Embiid did play in six straight games before being ruled out for Sunday&#8217;s contest, so there has been progress in his recovery from his injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The Sixers will look to pick up another important win when they take on the Raptors at 6 p.m. EST from the Scotiabank Arena in Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Sixers Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/sixerswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/sixers\/2026\/01\/11\/sixers-injury-news-joel-embiid-downgraded-vs-raptors-on-the-road\/88131900007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Sixers injury news: Joel Embiid downgraded vs. Raptors on the road;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Sixers injury news: Joel Embiid downgraded vs. Raptors on the road<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO &#8212; The Philadelphia 76ers are getting set to take on the Toronto Raptors on Sunday for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3769],"tags":[679,7,936,2841,6,678,207,3817,476],"class_list":{"0":"post-530377","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-76ers","8":"tag-76ers","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-joel-embiid","11":"tag-knee-injury","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-philadelphia","14":"tag-philadelphia-76ers","15":"tag-philadelphia76ers","16":"tag-toronto-raptors"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115878852604604413","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}