{"id":625520,"date":"2026-02-26T06:39:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T06:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/625520\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T06:39:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T06:39:28","slug":"joel-embiid-probable-for-sixers-heat-on-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/625520\/","title":{"rendered":"Joel Embiid probable for Sixers-Heat on Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joel Embiid (right knee injury management; right shin soreness) is probable for the Sixers&#8217; home contest against the Miami Heat on Thursday night, according to the team&#8217;s initial injury report for the game unveiled on Wednesday:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Sixers have an injury report for tomorrow&#8217;s game vs. Miami:<\/p>\n<p>Joel Embiid \u2013 right knee injury management; right shin soreness  \u2014 PROBABLE<\/p>\n<p>Johni Broome \u2013 right knee meniscus tear \u2013 OUT<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Adam Aaronson (@SixersAdam) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SixersAdam\/status\/2026779330139840514?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 25, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Embiid, who missed five games across 18 days \u2013 two of those absences came before the All-Star break and three came afterwards \u2013 was dealing with a right knee issue that the Sixers said morphed into a shin ailment during the break. Embiid, who had gone over a month without an unplanned absence before that, made his return on Tuesday night against the Indiana Pacers, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phillyvoice.com\/sixers-vs-pacers-box-score-stats-highlights-joel-embiid-tyrese-maxey-vj-edgecombe-nick-nurse-nba-scores\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">casually dominating a weak frontcourt as the Sixers notched their second straight victory<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"center\">MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phillyvoice.com\/sixers-news-analysis-nick-nurse-nba-rumors-daryl-morey-johni-broome-injury-update-jared-mccain-trade-deadline\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Is Nick Nurse on the hot seat?<\/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; right shin soreness) is probable for the Sixers&#8217; home contest against the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3774],"tags":[7,113,126,3866,936,189,6,114,678,207,96],"class_list":{"0":"post-625520","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indiana-pacers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-indiana","10":"tag-indiana-pacers","11":"tag-indianapacers","12":"tag-joel-embiid","13":"tag-miami-heat","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-pacers","16":"tag-philadelphia","17":"tag-philadelphia-76ers","18":"tag-sixers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116135563320442183","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625520","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=625520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}