{"id":489554,"date":"2026-03-24T14:59:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T13:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=489554"},"modified":"2026-03-24T14:59:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T13:59:55","slug":"paul-george-completes-suspension-eligible-to-return-wednesday-for-sixers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/paul-george-completes-suspension-eligible-to-return-wednesday-for-sixers\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul George completes suspension, eligible to return Wednesday for Sixers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1487\" data-end=\"1699\"><strong data-start=\"1487\" data-end=\"1502\">Paul George<\/strong> has completed his 25-game suspension for violating the NBA and NBPA anti-drug policy. The Philadelphia 76ers forward is now eligible to return on Wednesday when the team hosts the Chicago Bulls.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1701\" data-end=\"1899\">Head coach <strong data-start=\"1712\" data-end=\"1726\">Nick Nurse<\/strong> said he is not concerned about George needing extra time to get back into game shape. \u201c<strong data-start=\"1816\" data-end=\"1859\">He\u2019s worked hard, he\u2019s conditioned hard<\/strong>,\u201d Nurse said about the veteran forward.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1901\" data-end=\"2195\">With George suspended and <strong data-start=\"1927\" data-end=\"1942\">Joel Embiid<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1947\" data-end=\"1963\">Tyrese Maxey<\/strong> dealing with injuries, Philadelphia has fallen to seventh place in the Eastern Conference. His return could give the Sixers an important boost as they try to move out of the Play-In Tournament and chase a guaranteed playoff spot.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2197\" data-end=\"2218\"><em data-start=\"2197\" data-end=\"2218\">Source: PHLY Sports<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Philadelphia 76ers forward has served his 25-game ban and can now return against the Chicago Bulls<\/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-489554","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\/489554","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=489554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489554\/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=489554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489554"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=489554"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=489554"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=489554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}