{"id":488226,"date":"2026-03-15T18:34:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T17:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=488226"},"modified":"2026-03-15T18:34:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T17:34:53","slug":"philadelphia-76ers-joel-embiid-ramps-up-possible-return-on-upcoming-road-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/philadelphia-76ers-joel-embiid-ramps-up-possible-return-on-upcoming-road-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia 76ers&#8217; Joel Embiid ramps up, possible return on upcoming road trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1468\" data-end=\"1751\"><strong data-start=\"1468\" data-end=\"1483\">Joel Embiid<\/strong> has started ramping up toward a return, getting back to <strong data-start=\"1540\" data-end=\"1572\">individual on-court workouts<\/strong> on Saturday. Head coach <strong data-start=\"1597\" data-end=\"1611\">Nick Nurse<\/strong> said he doesn\u2019t \u201cwant to anticipate anything,\u201d but acknowledged Embiid returning during the team\u2019s upcoming <strong data-start=\"1720\" data-end=\"1733\">road trip<\/strong> is a possibility.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1753\" data-end=\"1941\">Embiid will miss his <strong data-start=\"1774\" data-end=\"1797\">ninth straight game<\/strong> on Sunday when the <strong data-start=\"1817\" data-end=\"1839\">Philadelphia 76ers<\/strong> host the <strong data-start=\"1849\" data-end=\"1875\">Portland Trail Blazers<\/strong>. Overall, he has played <strong data-start=\"1900\" data-end=\"1933\">33 of Philadelphia\u2019s 67 games<\/strong> so far.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1943\" data-end=\"2147\">The Sixers are also expected to be without <strong data-start=\"1986\" data-end=\"2002\">Tyrese Maxey<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"2007\" data-end=\"2025\">Kelly Oubre Jr<\/strong> due to injuries on the three-game western swing, while <strong data-start=\"2081\" data-end=\"2096\">Paul George<\/strong> remains out as he serves a <strong data-start=\"2124\" data-end=\"2146\">25-game suspension<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Embiid is back to individual on-court work, and Nick Nurse won\u2019t commit but says the road swing is in play<\/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-488226","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\/488226","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=488226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488226\/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=488226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488226"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=488226"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=488226"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=488226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}