{"id":580465,"date":"2026-02-03T22:09:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T22:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/580465\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T22:09:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T22:09:16","slug":"joel-embiid-out-for-sixers-warriors-on-tuesday-in-second-leg-of-back-to-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/580465\/","title":{"rendered":"Joel Embiid out for Sixers-Warriors on Tuesday in second leg of back-to-back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joel Embiid (right ankle injury management; right knee injury management) is out for the Sixers&#8217; road contest against the Golden State Warriors on Tuesday night, according to the team&#8217;s initial injury report for the game unveiled on Tuesday afternoon:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Sixers have an injury report for tonight&#8217;s game @ Golden State:<\/p>\n<p>Joel Embiid \u2013 right ankle injury management; right knee injury management \u2013 OUT<\/p>\n<p>This is the front end of a back-to-back; Embiid played 32 minutes last night in the Sixers&#8217; win over the Los Angeles Clippers.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Adam Aaronson (@SixersAdam) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SixersAdam\/status\/2018791722369921074?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 3, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Embiid, who logged 32 minutes in the Sixers&#8217; wire-to-wire win over the Los Angeles Clippers on Monday night to kick off a five-game road trip against Western Conference teams, still does not play in both legs of any back-to-backs. Since the beginning of January, this will be Embiid&#8217;s fourth absence in 19 games; all four of those missed games have come in a leg of a back-to-back.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, two-time NBA MVP Stephen Curry will be sidelined for Golden State due to a recent right knee issue. Old friend Jimmy Butler is out for the season due to a torn ACL. Jonathan Kuminga, infamous among Sixers fans for his role in Embiid&#8217;s torn meniscus just over two years ago is out as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"center\">MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phillyvoice.com\/sixers-news-analysis-jared-mccain-stephen-curry-camp-interview-stats-highlights-nba-rumors\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jared McCain discusses his relationship with childhood hero Curry<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow Adam on Twitter: <a data-original-title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/SixersAdam\" style=\"outline-color: currentcolor; outline-style: none;\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@SixersAdam<\/a><br \/>Follow PhillyVoice on Twitter: <a data-original-title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/thephillyvoice\" style=\"outline-color: currentcolor; outline-style: none;\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@thephillyvoice<\/a><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joel Embiid (right ankle injury management; right knee injury management) is out for the Sixers&#8217; road contest against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3769],"tags":[679,7,936,6,678,207,3817,96,573],"class_list":{"0":"post-580465","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-nba","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-philadelphia-76ers","14":"tag-philadelphia76ers","15":"tag-sixers","16":"tag-stephen-curry"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116008987153730297","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580465","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=580465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}