{"id":1904294,"date":"2026-04-26T22:31:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T19:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1904294"},"modified":"2026-04-26T22:31:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T19:31:46","slug":"joel-embiid-returns-to-76ers-for-game-4-against-celtics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1904294","title":{"rendered":"Joel Embiid returns to 76ers for Game 4 against Celtics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"Article_ContentContainer__jBNW3 article-content-container bodytext1\">\n<p>Joel Embiid is back.<\/p>\n<p>The star center for the Philadelphia 76ers will play in Game 4 on Sunday night against the Boston Celtics, despite being listed as doubtful for much of the day. Embiid, who has been out for more than two weeks because of an emergency appendectomy, has missed the first three games of the series. The Sixers are down 2-1 and Sunday night\u2019s matchup against Boston is critical. The Sixers will look to tie the series at home.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Joel Embiid has been upgraded to QUESTIONABLE for tonight&#8217;s Game 4 against Boston\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>With the upgrade, he will likely take the floor to warm up with the intention of playing tonight<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tony Jones (@Tjonesonthenba) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tjonesonthenba\/status\/2048518983125504187?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 26, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Embiid has been making steady progress toward a return. He was listed as doubtful for Friday night\u2019s Game 3, but didn\u2019t make it on the court, before being officially ruled out. He went through an intense on-court individual workout Saturday afternoon at Philadelphia\u2019s practice facility. He participated in portions of shootaround before both Games 3 and 4.<\/p>\n<p>Averaging 26.9 points in 38 games this season, Embiid remains Philadelphia\u2019s best offensive player. It remains to be seen how effective he will be, or how much he can even play. But Philadelphia needs his ability to make shots and generate offense against one of the best defenses in the NBA. Without him, a heavy load of responsibility has fallen on point guard Tyrese Maxey, small forward Paul George and rookie shooting guard VJ Edgecombe.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joel Embiid is back. The star center for the Philadelphia 76ers will play in Game 4 on Sunday night against the Boston Celtics, despite being listed as doubtful for much of the day. Embiid, who has been out for more than two weeks because of an emergency appendectomy, has missed the first three games of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,241],"class_list":["post-1904294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-nytimes-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1904294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1904294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1904294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1904294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}