The Philadelphia 76ers added Joel Embiid to their damage report with “proper knee soreness” on Tuesday, ruling him out for his or her sport towards the Boston Celtics this night. 76ers coach Nick Nurse informed reporters that Embiid reported soreness in his proper knee on the workforce’s shootaround Tuesday morning.

“He had some imaging on that this afternoon and medical doctors are right here tonight to go over that with him,” Nurse stated.

Embiid missed a lot of the final two years attributable to a left knee subject after tearing his meniscus halfway by means of the 2023-24 season that required a followup scope final season after he was restricted to simply 19 video games. Embiid and the Sixers have been hopeful that process would clear up his points and permit him to get again on the ground extra recurrently, however now he finds himself coping with a difficulty along with his proper knee. 

“No expectations in any respect,” Nurse stated when requested if Embiid might miss a number of video games. “We’re going to see what they are saying concerning the imaging.”

Embiid has injured his proper knee earlier than, struggling a proper knee sprain in the course of the 2023 Playoffs within the first spherical towards the Brooklyn Nets that restricted him going ahead. 

This season, Embiid has appeared in six of the Sixers’ 10 video games and averages 19.7 factors and 5.5 rebounds per sport whereas being restricted to 20-25 minutes of motion. Regardless of a cautious method to his minutes load early within the season, he finds himself coping with knee soreness as soon as once more.  The Sixers have held him out of back-to-backs, together with their most up-to-date sport towards Detroit, however his absence on Tuesday evening raises new considerations, because it comes after two days off.

The 76ers are 6-4 on the season due to a sensational begin from their younger backcourt led by Tyrese Maxey and rookie VJ Edgecombe.