{"id":625660,"date":"2026-02-26T08:45:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T08:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/625660\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T08:45:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T08:45:17","slug":"joel-embiid-probable-for-crucial-matchup-vs-heat-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/625660\/","title":{"rendered":"Joel Embiid probable for crucial matchup vs. Heat"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is always good news to hear, but especially so after some recent reporting.<\/p>\n

The Sixers released their injury report for their upcoming contest against the Miami Heat and it is relatively clean. Most notably Joel Embiid is listed as probable with right knee injury management and shin soreness after returning earlier this week against the Indiana Pacers.<\/p>\n

After that return in Indy, a game in which Embiid dropped 27 points, he told the Inquirer\u2019s Gina Mizell<\/a> that he experienced what was basically a stress reaction in his right leg during his recovery process over the All-Star break. The full article from a reporter is well worth a read, but Embiid likened the feeling to an electric shock and said he had trouble walking.<\/p>\n

Of course the team only specified \u201cshin soreness\u201d on every injury report, but that report being less than 100% accurate is just another Wednesday for these guys.<\/p>\n

Having Embiid good to go will be crucial for this Eastern Conference bout at home. The Sixers are currently just 1.5 games up on the Miami Heat for that sixth and final playoff spot that avoids the Play-In tournament. Miami of course isn\u2019t the only team they\u2019re trying to fend off \u2014 the Sixers only a half game up on the Orlando Magic as well.<\/p>\n

Miami\u2019s injury report is littered with banged up rotation players, but most of them are listed as available. Tyler Herro, Norman Powell and Andrew Wiggins will all play despite being listed with various ailments and Davion Mitchell is questionable with a head injury and an illness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is always good news to hear, but especially so after some recent reporting. The Sixers released their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3769],"tags":[679,7,6,678,207,3817,50414],"class_list":["post-625660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia-76ers","tag-76ers","tag-basketball","tag-nba","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-76ers","tag-philadelphia76ers","tag-sixers-injury-report"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116136058702135950","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625660","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=625660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}