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Joel Embiid<\/a> (oblique injury management and illness) will miss the 76ers\u2019 Saturday home game against the Detroit Pistons, while Paul George<\/a> (knee injury management) is probable to play, per the NBA\u2019s 1 p.m. injury report.<\/p>\n The team\u2019s official designation comes after both veterans expressed hope following Friday\u2019s victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves that they would be able to play on the second night of a back-to-back.<\/p>\n \u201cI want to see how I feel in the morning, and go from there, honestly\u201d George said after Friday\u2019s game. \u201cI absolutely, 100%, want to play tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n All-Star point guard Tyrese Maxey<\/a> (finger) and veteran wing Kelly Oubre Jr. (elbow), who also recently returned from weeks-long injury absences, are available to play.<\/p>\n \u00bb READ MORE: \u2018[Ticked] off\u2019 he did not play at Washington, Joel Embiid directs all questions to Daryl Morey<\/a><\/p>\n Embiid\u2019s planned absence will be less than 24 hours after he publicly criticized the Sixers<\/a> (43-34) for ruling him out of Wednesday\u2019s victory at the Washington Wizards with an illness, after he missed the team\u2019s morning film session. Embiid said he was \u201c[ticked] off\u201d to find out online that he would not be playing, and that any further questions should be directed at president of basketball operations Daryl Morey<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cI guess these guys decide to let me play or not,\u201d Embiid said when asked if there was a chance he could play Saturday. \u201cSo whatever they tell me, I guess I got to follow.\u201d<\/p>\n Embiid acknowledged that his right oblique \u2014 which he strained in a Feb. 26 win against the Miami Heat and then missed about a month \u2014 got hit during Friday\u2019s win over Minnesoata. The former NBA Most Valuable Player also has dealt with a shin stress reaction and issues with both knees this season. He has averaged 26.7 points on 49.1% shooting, along with 7.6 rebounds, four assists, and 1.1 blocks in 37 games played.<\/p>\n Without Embiid, Adem Bona and Andre Drummond are the contenders to start at center.<\/p>\n George has been terrific since returning from a 25-game suspension for violating the NBA\u2019s anti-drug policy. In five games, he has averaged 27 points on 50% shooting (including 42.6% on 10.8 three-point attempts), along with 6.8 rebounds, four assists, and 3.2 steals.<\/p>\n The Pistons (56-21) boast the Eastern Conference\u2019s best record, but are playing without All-Star guard Cade Cunningham due to a collapsed lung. Detroit All-Star Jalen Duren is listed as questionable with an illness.<\/p>\n The Sixers remain in a tight Eastern Conference postseason race, entering Saturday with the same record as the Toronto Raptors but holding the tiebreaker for sixth place because of division record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to article \u2022\u00a00:00 min Joel Embiid (oblique injury management and illness) will miss the 76ers\u2019 Saturday home…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":698202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3773],"tags":[7,296,188,3860,87766,6,297],"class_list":{"0":"post-698201","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-miss-game-paul-george-probable-play-detroit-pistons","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-pistons"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116347778137326959","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698201","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=698201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/698202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}