Overview
- Postgame, the team said imaging showed no structural damage in Joel Embiid’s right knee and listed him day-to-day.
- Embiid reported soreness at morning shootaround, missed the Celtics game, and has played six of ten games on a minutes restriction.
- Paul George entered the final phase of his left-knee return plan centered on quadriceps strengthening and on-court work, with a re-evaluation later this week.
- The Sixers edged the Celtics 102-100 to improve to 7-4 as Tyrese Maxey, VJ Edgecombe and supporting pieces shouldered the offense in Embiid’s absence.
- Dominick Barlow (elbow) and Johni Broome (ankle) remained out for Philadelphia, and Boston was again without Jayson Tatum as he rehabs a torn right Achilles.