{"id":644656,"date":"2026-03-07T04:55:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T04:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/644656\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T04:55:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T04:55:26","slug":"sixers-joel-embiid-will-be-re-evaluated-in-a-week-with-oblique-injury-thats-already-cost-him-3-games-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/644656\/","title":{"rendered":"Sixers’ Joel Embiid will be re-evaluated in a week with oblique injury that’s already cost him 3 games"},"content":{"rendered":"

Philadelphia 76ers star Joel Embiid is progressing in his recovery from the right oblique strain he suffered<\/a> in a win over the Miami Heat last Thursday, but he’s not back on the court yet and will be re-evaluated again in approximately one week, the team announced Friday, according to PhillyVoice’s Adam Aaronson<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Both Embiid and rookie guard VJ Edgecombe, who is dealing with a back injury, didn’t participate in Friday’s practice, per the Sixers, via Aaronson.<\/p>\n

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Embiid has already missed three games with his oblique issue. He will miss at least three more based on the timeline the team provided, per Aaronson.<\/p>\n

Embiid has appeared in only 33 of the Sixers’ 62 games during their 2025-26 campaign. With 29 absences, he’s awards-ineligible this season<\/a> and has been for a while.<\/p>\n

The soon-to-be 32-year-old Embiid also missed five consecutive games last month with a sore right knee and shin issue<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After playing in just 19 games last season because of lingering left-knee issues that ultimately resulted in him going under the knife in April 2025<\/a>, Embiid found himself sidelined again for a significant stretch early this season, this time due to a right knee injury<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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When the seven-time All-Star center has been on the court this season, he’s shown why he’s still valuable. He’s averaging 26.6 points and 7.5 rebounds per game. He’s turned in a dozen 30-plus-point performances, including a 40-piece in a Jan. 31 win against the New Orleans Pelicans.<\/p>\n

The Sixers are 21-12 in the games Embiid has played in this season. They are 13-16 without him on the court, currently placing sixth in the Eastern Conference standings at 34-28 overall.<\/p>\n

As for Edgecombe, last year’s No. 3 overall draft pick, he sustained a lumbar contusion when he fell hard on his lower back after being fouled from behind on a 3-point attempt in a lopsided defeat to the San Antonio Spurs on Tuesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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He was in street clothes for Philadelphia’s bounce-back win over the Utah Jazz on Wednesday. His status is up in the air for Saturday when the Sixers will play the Atlanta Hawks on the road.<\/p>\n

Edgecombe is averaging 15.3 points, 5.5 rebounds and 3.9 assists per game in his first year out of Baylor. He and Embiid are key pieces of a Sixers squad looking to return to the postseason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia 76ers star Joel Embiid is progressing in his recovery from the right oblique strain he suffered in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3769],"tags":[679,69222,208,7,936,2841,189,6,470,75703,678,207,3817,474,427,971],"class_list":["post-644656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia-76ers","tag-76ers","tag-adam-aaronson","tag-atlanta-hawks","tag-basketball","tag-joel-embiid","tag-knee-injury","tag-miami-heat","tag-nba","tag-new-orleans-pelicans","tag-oblique-strain","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-76ers","tag-philadelphia76ers","tag-san-antonio-spurs","tag-utah-jazz","tag-vj-edgecombe"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116186115388393907","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644656","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=644656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}