{"id":429858,"date":"2025-02-24T08:45:35","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T07:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=429858"},"modified":"2025-02-24T08:45:35","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T07:45:35","slug":"philadelphia-76ers-joel-embiid-exploring-surgery-for-lingering-knee-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/philadelphia-76ers-joel-embiid-exploring-surgery-for-lingering-knee-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia 76ers, Joel Embiid exploring surgery for lingering knee injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1053\" data-end=\"1720\">According to <strong data-start=\"1066\" data-end=\"1074\">ESPN<\/strong>, the <strong data-start=\"1080\" data-end=\"1102\">Philadelphia 76ers<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1107\" data-end=\"1122\">Joel Embiid<\/strong> are consulting medical specialists to determine the <strong data-start=\"1175\" data-end=\"1200\">best course of action<\/strong> for his <strong data-start=\"1209\" data-end=\"1229\">left knee injury<\/strong>, including the possibility of <strong data-start=\"1260\" data-end=\"1271\">surgery<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1053\" data-end=\"1720\">Despite ongoing <strong data-start=\"1289\" data-end=\"1318\">treatments and injections<\/strong>, there has been <strong data-start=\"1335\" data-end=\"1365\">no significant improvement<\/strong>. Embiid has played just <strong data-start=\"1390\" data-end=\"1408\">19 of 56 games<\/strong> this season and is <strong data-start=\"1428\" data-end=\"1478\">questionable for Monday\u2019s game against Chicago<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1053\" data-end=\"1720\">His stats have dipped to <strong data-start=\"1505\" data-end=\"1546\">23.8 points and 8.2 rebounds per game<\/strong>, his lowest since <strong data-start=\"1565\" data-end=\"1576\">2019-20<\/strong>. Meanwhile, the <strong data-start=\"1593\" data-end=\"1610\">76ers (20-36)<\/strong> are on a <strong data-start=\"1620\" data-end=\"1648\">seven-game losing streak<\/strong>, struggling despite opening the season with championship aspirations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Philadelphia star is considering all options, including a potential operation<\/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":[179],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-429858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-injury"],"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\/429858","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=429858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429858\/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=429858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429858"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=429858"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=429858"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=429858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}