{"id":701166,"date":"2026-04-06T10:06:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T10:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/701166\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T10:06:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T10:06:22","slug":"is-joel-embiid-playing-tonight-vs-spurs-final-status-for-76ers-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/701166\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Joel Embiid playing tonight vs. Spurs? Final status for 76ers star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every game is of extreme importance for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/philadelphia-76ers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia 76ers<\/a> at this point in the season as they look to clinch a playoff berth and avoid the Play-In Tournament.<\/p>\n<p>After a loss to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/detroit-pistons\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit Pistons<\/a> on Saturday night, they need to bounce back in a big way against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/san-antonio-spurs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spurs<\/a> in San Antonio on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Joel Embiid will play in pivotal game vs. Spurs on Monday night\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The good news for the Sixers is that star center Joel Embiid isn\u2019t listed on the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ak-static.cms.nba.com\/referee\/injury\/Injury-Report_2026-04-05_10_30PM.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">official injury report<\/a>, indicating that he\u2019ll be available for the game. Embiid missed the game against Detroit due to illness and right oblique injury management.<\/p>\n<p>The Sixers could really use a win, so Embiid&#8217;s availability is a big boon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On the season, Embiid has played in 37 games for Philadelphia and posted averages 26.7 points, 7.6 rebounds, 4.0 assists and 1.1 blocks per performance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The matchup between Philadelphia and San Antonio will be the second and final of the season. The Spurs dominated the Sixers 131-91 in the first meeting in March, but Embiid didn&#8217;t play in that game so perhaps it will be a different story this time around.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More Philadelphia 76ers news:\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Every game is of extreme importance for the Philadelphia 76ers at this point in the season as they&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3769],"tags":[679,7,6,678,207,3817],"class_list":{"0":"post-701166","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-76ers","8":"tag-76ers","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-philadelphia","12":"tag-philadelphia-76ers","13":"tag-philadelphia76ers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116357207704372107","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701166","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=701166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}