{"id":412703,"date":"2023-02-16T02:19:41","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T07:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=412703"},"modified":"2023-02-16T02:19:41","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T07:19:41","slug":"sixers-ace-embiid-could-miss-all-star-game-due-to-injury","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/sixers-ace-embiid-could-miss-all-star-game-due-to-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Sixers ace Embiid could miss All-Star Game due to injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia 76ers star Joel Embiid could open up a spot on the All-Star team this weekend due to foot injury.<\/p>\n<p>The big Cameroonian has been playing through the injury and has acknowledged that he might be best off skipping the All-Star Game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not sure, I\u2019m not healthy. I haven\u2019t been healthy for the past three weeks or month, I was just trying to get to the All-Star break without missing games and stuff,\u201d Embiid said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I feel like I\u2019ve reached the point where I really need to follow the doctor\u2019s advice and miss, back then he said I should have been sitting for two weeks. Going to see how the next few days go and go from there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Embiid made his comments after scoring 29 points with 14 rebounds in the Sixers\u2019 118-112 win over the Cleveland Cavaliers on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The victory marked Philly\u2019s final game before the All-Star break, as they don\u2019t get back into action until Thursday, Feb. 23.<\/p>\n<p>Embiid reached 10,000 career points in fewer games in 76ers history, passing NBA great Allen Iverson.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Joel Embiid has reached 10,000 career points \ud83d\udc4f<\/p>\n<p>The fewest games (373) needed to reach that mark in 76ers history, passing Allen Iverson (378). <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7Zoo6XktPR\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/7Zoo6XktPR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NBA on ESPN (@ESPNNBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ESPNNBA\/status\/1626033973703897089?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 16, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In addition to Embiid, injuries to Jaylen Brown and DeMar DeRozan could also open some All-Star spots.<\/p>\n<div class=\"google-auto-placed ap_container\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia 76ers star Joel Embiid could open up a spot on the All-Star team this weekend due to foot injury. The big Cameroonian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":412704,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17209,17531,16892,17086,16841,16840],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"Iinjuries to Jaylen Brown and DeMar DeRozan could also open some All-Star spots","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/412703"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/412703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412703"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=412703"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=412703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}