{"id":616693,"date":"2026-02-22T00:09:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T00:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/616693\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T00:09:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T00:09:15","slug":"sixers-announce-andre-drummond-will-start-to-begin-trip-vs-pelicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/616693\/","title":{"rendered":"Sixers announce Andre Drummond will start to begin trip vs. Pelicans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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> will begin a 3-game trip on Saturday when they take on the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/new-orleans-pelicans\/3\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:New Orleans Pelicans;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">New Orleans Pelicans<\/a> with Joel Embiid sidelined due to both right knee injury management and right shin soreness. This is the first night of a back-to-back as Philadelphia will head to Minnesota on Sunday to face the Timberwolves, and the Sixers will be looking to get off to a good start on the trip.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of the starting lineup against a pesky Pelicans team, the Sixers will turn to veteran Andre Drummond to start in place of Embiid. This has been the case for a majority of the season as coach Nick Nurse likes to keep Adem Bona in a reserve role.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Drummond, averaging 7.0 points and 8.7 rebounds on the season, will join Tyrese Maxey, VJ Edgecombe, Kelly Oubre Jr., and Dominick Barlow in the starting unit.<\/p>\n<p>The Sixers and Pelicans will tip off at 7 p.m. EST from the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Sixers Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/sixerswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/sixers\/2026\/02\/21\/sixers-announce-andre-drummond-will-start-to-begin-trip-vs-pelicans\/88801583007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Sixers announce Andre Drummond will start to begin trip vs. Pelicans;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Sixers announce Andre Drummond will start to begin trip vs. Pelicans<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Philadelphia 76ers will begin a 3-game trip on Saturday when they take on the New Orleans Pelicans&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3769],"tags":[679,1262,3845,7,7479,936,6462,307,6,478,470,678,207,3817,308,1263,971],"class_list":{"0":"post-616693","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-76ers","8":"tag-76ers","9":"tag-adem-bona","10":"tag-andre-drummond","11":"tag-basketball","12":"tag-dominick-barlow","13":"tag-joel-embiid","14":"tag-kelly-oubre-jr","15":"tag-minnesota","16":"tag-nba","17":"tag-new-orleans","18":"tag-new-orleans-pelicans","19":"tag-philadelphia","20":"tag-philadelphia-76ers","21":"tag-philadelphia76ers","22":"tag-timberwolves","23":"tag-tyrese-maxey","24":"tag-vj-edgecombe"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116111380581410140","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616693","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=616693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}