{"id":584225,"date":"2026-02-05T14:49:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T14:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/584225\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T14:49:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T14:49:37","slug":"joel-embiid-questionable-for-sixers-lakers-on-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/584225\/","title":{"rendered":"Joel Embiid questionable for Sixers-Lakers on Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joel Embiid (right knee injury management) is questionable for the Sixers&#8217; road contest against the Los Angeles Lakers on Thursday night, according to the team&#8217;s initial injury report for the game unveiled on Wednesday night:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Sixers have an injury report for tomorrow\u2019s game @ LAL:<\/p>\n<p>Joel Embiid \u2014 right knee injury management \u2014 QUESTIONABLE<\/p>\n<p>Jared McCain \u2014 not with team \u2014 OUT<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Adam Aaronson (@SixersAdam) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SixersAdam\/status\/2019214514152173614?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 5, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Embiid, who sat during the Sixers&#8217; road win over the Golden State Warriors on Tuesday in the second leg of a back-to-back, has enjoyed his healthiest and best stretch of basketball in two years over the last month and change. Since the start of January, his few absences have been on back-to-backs and his minutes and production have improved significantly.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"center\">MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phillyvoice.com\/sixers-news-analysis-jared-mccain-trade-details-nba-trade-deadline-rumors-okc-thunder\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instant reaction to Jared McCain trade<\/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 knee injury management) is questionable for the Sixers&#8217; road contest against the Los Angeles Lakers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3769],"tags":[679,7,936,150,6,678,207,3817,96],"class_list":{"0":"post-584225","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-los-angeles-lakers","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-philadelphia","14":"tag-philadelphia-76ers","15":"tag-philadelphia76ers","16":"tag-sixers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116018581762976543","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584225","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=584225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}