“I do expect him to,” Brown said. I think we do some good things offensively, defensively, and then you see head-scratching stuff. Tobias Harris is questionable with right ankle soreness and Al Horford is questionable with left knee soreness.
He’ll be undergoing treatment and evaluation at the team’s practice Monday night.Brett Brown wasn’t sure if Embiid would play Wednesday vs. the Raptors, but he expects the three-time All-Star to appear again before the postseason and indicated he doesn't view the injury as serious.
Boston technically still has a chance to surpass the Raptors for the No. “And landing the plane and entering the playoffs from this vision line of a bubble and time off and tiptoeing on pins and needles where you don’t want people to get injured, and then still find a rhythm, that’s a slippery slope. “We’re still figuring out some things with how we’re playing the team and Shake (Milton) coming in and so on. Making sure Tobias is in a place where we can manage his minutes going forward and still find that balance of trying to compete and find a rhythm.”Ben Simmons was the other player on Monday’s report. Miami Heat 43-25 GB: 11 5. It’s not considered an especially strong draft at the top, but there could be opportunities for the Sixers to add rotation pieces. It would mark the second time in three seasons the Atlantic Division rivals met in the postseason. Joel Embiid is out for Tuesday’s game against the Suns with the left ankle injury he sustained in the first quarter Sunday vs. the Blazers.
Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. But I think, for the most part, we’re trending in the right direction, just not as quickly as I wished.Here's where the Sixers sit in the Eastern Conference: Boston technically still has a chance to surpass the Raptors for the No. 4 and No. Though they’re calling “seeding games,” the Sixers’ primary concern in the contests leading up to the playoffs is not seeding.“How do you go into the playoffs … how can you go into that date feeling like we’re the best we can be?” Brett Brown said on July 12.
Nor is he ruling out resuming the season with regular-season games.“We are talking about the Celtics as if that could be an opponent,” said general manager Elton Brand, whose team would face Boston in an opening-round series based on the teams’ seeds if the postseason began Wednesday. He’ll begin rehabilitation in Philadelphia immediately and will have a post-operative evaluation in approximately two weeks. Utah only has one seeding game remaining — Thursday night vs. the Spurs. 2 seed and the Sixers aren’t eliminated from contention for the No. He leads all scorers at Disney World with 39.7 points per game. So, what’s the status of that pick?With two seeding games to go for Oklahoma City — Wednesday night vs. the Heat and Friday against the Clippers — the pickOKC is 43-27 and has the ninth-best record in the NBA, a half-game behind the Heat and a half-game ahead of the Pacers and Jazz. 'Slippery slope' between finding rhythm and staying healthyHighlights: Banged-up Sixers suffer tough loss to BlazersJosh Richardson drops a season-high 34 points vs. BlazersJoel Embiid leaves game vs. 3. But we’ve done a deep dive.”The Eastern Conference’s third-place Celtics (43-21) would host the sixth-place Sixers (39-26) in the best-of-seven opening-round series if the NBA opted to go straight to playoffs.It would mark the second time in three seasons the Atlantic Division rivals met in the postseason. The site is expected to be a bubble-like atmosphere where players would be in isolation.But that type of setup is not a done deal for the NBA, according to league commissioner Adam Silver. He saw time as a small-ball center against the Trail Blazers, scoring nine points and grabbing four rebounds, and will likely assume a key role on Tuesday.“Just a little swelling,” he said of his knee. We’ve started these three games, I think, very inconsistently. “That’s just one man’s opinion. The Heat’s other opponents are the Bucks, Suns and Thunder, while the Pacers’ are the Suns, Lakers and Rockets. Harris hasn’t missed a game this season, while Horford said in July, “IThe length of the injury report is not surprising after Brown on Sunday seemed receptive when asked about possibly restricting minutes for key players in the team’s final three seeding games.“I think it’s true ... where you want an honest sort of medical assessment of anything that equals a potential problem — you just want to avoid (it),” he said. I think the question extends to people like Al Horford, as an example. “You mentioned Jo. Mike Scott, who missed the Sixers’ first three seeding games with right knee soreness, said he’s feeling well now. The Sixers’ last seeding contest has been officially assigned for Friday at 9 p.m. against the Rockets. “I want to see this team in the playoffs. The team has gone 2-1, but that record includes a fourth quarter in which the Sixers allowed the Pacers to score 46 points, a game-saving shot from Shake Milton vs. the Spurs and a win over the 24-44 Wizards that was It’s been slower coming than I would’ve thought,” Brown said Wednesday. The 2012 Celtics-Sixers Playoff Series Was a Rock Fight Before It Was Fodder for ‘Uncut Gems’ The 2012 Eastern Conference semifinal was an up-and-down series for Kevin Garnett, which made it …