{"id":647853,"date":"2026-03-08T22:51:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T22:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/647853\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T22:51:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T22:51:17","slug":"76ers-all-star-guard-tyrese-maxey-to-miss-at-least-2-games-with-a-sprained-finger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/647853\/","title":{"rendered":"76ers All-Star guard Tyrese Maxey to miss at least 2 games with a sprained finger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">PHILADELPHIA (AP) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/philadelphia-76ers-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia 76ers<\/a> point guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/tyrese-maxey-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tyrese Maxey<\/a> will sit out at least the next two games with a sprained finger and the two-time All-Star will have additional tests to determine how long he&#8217;ll be sidelined, the team announced Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">Maxey sprained his right pinkie in a collision with teammate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/adem-bona-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Adem Bona<\/a> while going for a loose ball with 16 seconds remaining in the 76ers&#8217; 126-116 loss to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/atlanta-hawks-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Atlanta Hawks<\/a> on Saturday night. Maxey immediately grabbed at his right hand and coach Nick Nurse said after the game that Maxey would have X-rays.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">The 76ers said Sunday that Maxey will be consulted after the additional tests to determine a treatment plan. The team added that it would have no further update until after the 76ers&#8217; next two games: at Cleveland on Monday night and home against Memphis on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">Maxey, who was selected to his second All-Star team this season, led the 76ers with 31 points against the Hawks before injuring his finger. He&#8217;s Philadelphia&#8217;s leading scorer with 29 points per game, which ranks him fourth in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBA<\/a>, while also averaging 6.7 assists and two steals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">The 76ers (34-29) entered Sunday eighth in the Eastern Conference, 1 1\/2 games ahead of the ninth-place Hawks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">\u2014<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (AP) \u2014 Philadelphia 76ers point guard Tyrese Maxey will sit out at least the next two games&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[1262,7,1407,6,207,1263],"class_list":{"0":"post-647853","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-adem-bona","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-national-basketball-association","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-philadelphia-76ers","13":"tag-tyrese-maxey"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116196016275233385","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647853","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=647853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}