{"id":481400,"date":"2024-04-01T13:18:07","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T17:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&p=481400"},"modified":"2024-04-01T13:19:12","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T17:19:12","slug":"embiid-set-to-return-to-action-this-week","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/embiid-set-to-return-to-action-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Embiid set to return to action this week"},"content":{"rendered":"

The reigning NBA Most Valuable Player, Joel Embiid<\/a>, is set to return to action this week, according to reports.<\/p>\n

The Philadelphia 76ers<\/a>‘ center is likely to be back on the court for the home game against the Oklahoma City Thunder on Tuesday. According to The Athletic, the 30-year-old basketball player has had successful full-team training sessions in recent days and has been cleared to participate in games.<\/p>\n

Embiid last played on January 30, when he injured his left knee meniscus during a road game against the Golden State Warriors<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>. Before the injury, the Cameroon-born basketball player led the entire league in scoring with an average of 35.3 points per game.<\/p>\n

With seven games remaining in the season, Philadelphia continues to battle with the Indiana Pacers<\/a> and the Miami Heat<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a> for the sixth spot in the Eastern Conference. Currently, the Pacers hold the sixth spot with a record of 42 wins and 33 losses. Miami is in seventh place with 41 wins and 33 losses, while the Sixers have 40 wins and 35 losses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The reigning NBA Most Valuable Player, Joel Embiid, is set to return to action this week, according to reports. The Philadelphia 76ers‘ center […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":476675,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16841,16840],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[18479,17913],"acf":{"announce":"76ers will have their leader back for the final battles for the sixth spot in the East","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\/481400"}],"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\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/481400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":481401,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/481400\/revisions\/481401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481400"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=481400"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=481400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}