Tyrese Maxey led the Sixers with 32 points, eight rebounds and five assists to power the Sixers to a victory over the Indiana Pacers and keep their hopes of avoiding the Play-In tournament alive.
Tyrese Maxey scored 32 points, Andre Drummond posted a double-double off the bench, and the Philadelphia 76ers ended Friday alone in eighth place in the Eastern Conference with their 105-94 defeat of the Indiana Pacers in Indianapolis.
NBA history is full of players who were perfectly of their era, possessing the right skills and attributes to thrive during their time. There are also plenty of guys whose careers might have played out differently had they been born years later.
Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid was released from the hospital Friday after undergoing a successful appendectomy and is returning to Philadelphia, the team announced.
With Joel Embiid’s appendicitis has sidelined the star center for the foreseeable future, effectively killing off any optimism surrounding how this season could end for the Philadelphia 76ers.
The Philadelphia 76ers are on the road on Friday night as they travel to take on the Indiana Pacers in an Eastern Conference matchup. Philadelphia enters Friday’s game with a 43-37 record after losing on the road to the Houston Rockets on Thursday night.
The Sixers are making a change at the back of their roster ahead of the postseason, according to Tony Jones of The Athletic (Twitter link), who reports that wing Dalen Terry is being promoted from his two-way contract to a standard deal, while point guard Cameron Payne will be placed on waivers.
The Philadelphia 76ers once again find themselves in purgatory after the recent loss of Joel Embiid, who is out indefinitely after undergoing an emergency appendectomy.
With an unfortunate development for star Joel Embiid looming over them, the Philadelphia 76ers will try to pull out of a three-game slide when they meet the Indiana Pacers on Friday night in Indianapolis.
LeBron's career can't go on forever, can it? If it were to end tomorrow, it would be the greatest run of sustained excellence the league has ever seen.
The Philadelphia 76ers revealed a few hours before their 113-102 loss to the Houston Rockets on Thursday that Joel Embiid was diagnosed with appendicitis and had to undergo emergency surgery.
The Philadelphia 76ers face yet another setback at the worst possible time! With the postseason knocking on the door in a season marked by injuries and lengthy suspension, stability had just begun to take shape around Joel Embiid.
The Philadelphia 76ers are now likely to play the NBA play-in tournament without star big man Joel Embiid. Hours before Thursday’s game against the Houston Rockets, it was reported that Embiid underwent an emergency appendectomy as he was diagnosed with appendicitis.
The Philadelphia 76ers are struggling for a playoff spot at the moment. Although they have already clinched the play-ins, things are looking extremely tough for them at the moment.
For years, the Philadelphia 76ers have built their identity around star power. From “The Process” to the MVP dominance of Joel Embiid, the organization has consistently prioritized top-end talent in its pursuit of a championship.
Are the Philadelphia 76ers the dark horse in the Eastern Conference ahead of this year’s playoffs? ESPN’s Tim Legler believes so. With momentum and good health on the 76ers’ side, Legler is confident in seeing Philly make a deep playoff run this season.
Cameron Payne will miss at least the next two weeks for the Sixers with a right hamstring strain, reports The Athletic’s Tony Jones (Twitter link). Payne left Saturday’s loss to the Pistons after playing just nine minutes due to the injury and did not return to the game.
PHILADELPHIA — It's 10:45 on Friday morning, and the lights are shining down on the hardwood floors of Xfinity Mobile Arena. There's no one in the stands to watch.
Edwards came back from a knee injury Monday and looked like he hadn't skipped a beat after missing two weeks with a knee injury. Then an illness derailed him as the Minnesota Timberwolves are scrambling for playoff seeding.
So far this season, Paul George’s journey has been anything but stable. It was only after the NBA handed the veteran a 25-game suspension for violating the league’s drug policy that he started to show up like vintage PG. Now that everything is at peace, at least for some time, and as he has started to realize it was actually his mistake.
The modern NBA superstar is no longer defined solely by box scores and postseason runs; today’s elite athletes are increasingly measured by their ventures off the court.