{"id":654604,"date":"2026-03-12T15:35:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T15:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/654604\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T15:35:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T15:35:18","slug":"is-joel-embiid-playing-tonight-76ers-vs-pistons-injury-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/654604\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Joel Embiid playing tonight? 76ers vs. Pistons injury report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/philadelphia-76ers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia 76ers<\/a> and Detroit Pistons will play on Thursday night, but will <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/players\/bafc0a09\/joel-embiid\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joel Embiid<\/a> be available for the game?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/philadelphia-76ers\/76ers-news-joel-embiid-out-at-least-one-more-week-oblique-injury\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Embiid is dealing with an oblique strain<\/a>. The 76ers are hoping to have him return as soon as possible. The team is closely monitoring <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/philadelphia-76ers\/76ers-news-how-long-players-typically-miss-oblique-strains-joel-embiids\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Embiid&#8217;s oblique injury<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s everything we know about Embiid&#8217;s injury status for tonight&#8217;s game vs. the Pistons.<\/p>\n<p>Watch NBA games LIVE with fuboTV (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fubo.tv\/lp\/nba\/?irad=356361&amp;irmp=492408\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"sponsored noopener sponsored nofollow\">Get Access | Save $30<\/a>)*<\/p>\n<p>Joel Embiid&#8217;s injury status vs. Pistons<\/p>\n<p>Embiid <a href=\"https:\/\/ak-static.cms.nba.com\/referee\/injury\/Injury-Report_2026-03-12_09_30AM.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">is out for Thursday&#8217;s game<\/a> due to a right oblique strain, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/injuries\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBA injury<\/a> report.<\/p>\n<p>At 35-30, the 76ers are in eighth place in the Eastern Conference standings. Meanwhile, the 46-18 Pistons lead the Eastern Conference. Upsetting the Pistons will certainly be a challenge without Embiid, especially with Tyrese Maxey and Paul George out as well.<\/p>\n<p>So, when it comes to the question of if Joel Embiid is playing tonight vs. the Pistons, the answer is no.<\/p>\n<p>76ers injury report<\/p>\n<p>The 76ers have six players listed on the injury report for Thursday night&#8217;s game.<\/p>\n<p>Adem Bona (back soreness): Questionable<br \/>\nJoel Embiid (right oblique strain): Out<br \/>\nJohni Broome (right knee surgery recovery): Out<br \/>\nPaul George (league suspension): Out<br \/>\nTyrese Maxey (right finger tendon injury): Out<br \/>\nKelly Oubre Jr. (left elbow sprain): Out<br \/>\nPistons injury report<\/p>\n<p>The Pistons have seven players listed on the injury report.<\/p>\n<p>Chaz Lanier (G League on assignment): Questionable<br \/>\nCaris LeVert (left wrist sprain): Doubtful<br \/>\nAusar Thompson (right ankle sprain): Out<br \/>\nIsaac Jones (G League two-way): Out<br \/>\nBobi Klintman (G League on assignment): Out<br \/>\nWendell Moore Jr. (G League two-way): Out<br \/>\nTolu Smith (G League two-way): Out<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Philadelphia 76ers and Detroit Pistons will play on Thursday night, but will Joel Embiid be available for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3773],"tags":[7,296,188,3860,936,6,14502,207,297],"class_list":{"0":"post-654604","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-pistons","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-detroit","10":"tag-detroit-pistons","11":"tag-detroitpistons","12":"tag-joel-embiid","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-nba-injury","15":"tag-philadelphia-76ers","16":"tag-pistons"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116216943998467085","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654604","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=654604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}