{"id":716442,"date":"2026-04-23T05:31:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T05:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/716442\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T05:31:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T05:31:00","slug":"76ers-announce-joel-embiid-injury-update-amid-nba-playoffs-series-vs-celtics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/716442\/","title":{"rendered":"76ers Announce Joel Embiid Injury Update Amid NBA Playoffs Series Vs. Celtics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Philadelphia 76ers saw the <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/boston-celtics\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Celtics<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/boston-celtics\/news\/celtics-make-franchise-history-nba-playoffs-game-1-win-vs-76ers\/9b6b46b5df76451f5b7944aa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">make franchise history<\/a> in Sunday&#8217;s Game 1 rout at TD Garden as former MVP center Joel Embiid missed the contest while recovering from his recent appendectomy.<\/p>\n<p>Sixers fans still don&#8217;t know <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/boston-celtics\/news\/76ers-coach-gives-unsurprising-joel-embiid-injury-update-celtics-playoffs-series\/827fd6d1ff8340575af26af0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">if or when Embiid will return<\/a> during the first-round series, but the team provided an update on the Cameroonian big man Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sixers say Joel Embiid has started his strength and conditioning program post-appendectomy,&#8221; NBC Sports Philadelphia&#8217;s Noah Levick posted on Bluesky.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\">Sixers say Joel Embiid has started his strength and conditioning program post-appendectomy.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Noah Levick (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:xtchhx2bkjfaoqn25n6plsua?ref_src=embed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@noahlevick.bsky.social<\/a>) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:xtchhx2bkjfaoqn25n6plsua\/post\/3mjwzi34pbs2z?ref_src=embed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">April 20, 2026 at 1:45 PM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Given their <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/boston-celtics\/news\/76ers-havent-won-nba-playoff-series-vs-celtics-joe-mazzulla-was-born\/b623c5d9fd60dac341cecddd\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">playoff history vs. Boston<\/a> and how both teams looked on Sunday, an Embiid return might not even save the 76ers&#8217; season at this point.<\/p>\n<p>Game 2 between the Celtics and Sixers is scheduled to tip off <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/boston-celtics\/schedule\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">at 7 p.m. ET on Tuesday<\/a> in Boston.<\/p>\n<p>More NBA: <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/tickets\/news\/celtics-playoff-tickets-2026-prices-seats-schedule-nba-boston\/b737d9d3ed7f96bcb1a0e81b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Celtics playoff tickets 2026: See the cheapest prices, seats, schedule for NBA postseason games in Boston<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Philadelphia 76ers saw the Boston Celtics make franchise history in Sunday&#8217;s Game 1 rout at TD Garden&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,6,11],"class_list":{"0":"post-716442","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba-playoffs","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-nba-playoffs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116452385325611286","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716442","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=716442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}