{"id":429507,"date":"2025-02-21T11:42:46","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T10:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=429507"},"modified":"2025-02-21T11:42:46","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T10:42:46","slug":"joel-embiid-im-not-as-dominant-knee-issues-persist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/joel-embiid-im-not-as-dominant-knee-issues-persist\/","title":{"rendered":"Joel Embiid: &#8220;I&#8217;m not as dominant,&#8221; knee issues persist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1077\" data-end=\"1656\">Following the <strong data-start=\"1091\" data-end=\"1102\">124-104<\/strong> loss to the <strong data-start=\"1115\" data-end=\"1133\">Boston Celtics<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"1135\" data-end=\"1150\">Joel Embiid<\/strong> admitted that his left <strong data-start=\"1174\" data-end=\"1189\">knee injury<\/strong> has made him far less dominant than before. The reigning MVP managed just <strong data-start=\"1264\" data-end=\"1297\">15 points on 3-for-9 shooting<\/strong>, his lowest shot attempts in a non-injury game this season.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1077\" data-end=\"1656\">\u201cI need to fix the problem and get back to my level,\u201d Embiid said, having played only <strong data-start=\"1444\" data-end=\"1477\">18 of Philadelphia\u2019s 55 games<\/strong>. With the <strong data-start=\"1488\" data-end=\"1498\">Sixers<\/strong> struggling and <strong data-start=\"1514\" data-end=\"1529\">Paul George<\/strong> confirming he is playing through pain with painkillers, Philadelphia&#8217;s playoff hopes largely hinge on <strong data-start=\"1632\" data-end=\"1644\">Embiid\u2019s<\/strong> recovery.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1686\" data-end=\"1704\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"><em data-start=\"1686\" data-end=\"1695\">Source:<\/em> <em data-start=\"1696\" data-end=\"1702\">ESPN<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sixers star acknowledges his struggles after a blowout loss to Boston<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":371864,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-429507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Philadelphia-76ers.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429507"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=429507"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=429507"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=429507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}