12:32pm: Embiid and fellow All-Star Ben Simmons will miss tonight’s game because of injuries, per Shams Charania of The Athletic (via Twitter). The Sixers will now only have eight eligible players, which is the technical threshold for fielding a team.
When asked whether or not he believed Philadelphia should take the floor, coach Doc Rivers said, “I don’t think we should,” according to Tim Bontemps of ESPN.
“An hour ago we were told we were playing,” Rivers said to reporters, per Mike Singer of the Denver Post (Twitter link). “We have eight active players. One is Mike Scott, and I can tell you right now there’s no way I’m going to play him.”
Scott is currently listed as day-to-day with a knee injury. The power forward has appeared in five games this season for the Sixers, averaging 16.0 MPG.
11:25am: Amid the Sixers‘ rash of contract tracing due to a positive COVID-19 test, the team will play its Saturday afternoon game against the Nuggets, tweets ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.
Philadelphia had expected to be without several players, as Joel Embiid, Tobias Harris, Danny Green, Shake Milton, Matisse Thybulle, Vincent Poirier and Paul Reed were listed as questionable for today’s game. Embiid, Green and Reed were cleared from the protocol, Wojnarowski tweeted Saturday afternoon.
Harris, Milton, Thybulle and Poirier are all out and still in the protocol, tweets Shams Charania of The Athletic.
Wojnarowski adds that the Sixers have nine eligible players for today’s game, one more than the required total of eight. However, that does not guarantee that Embiid will play — clearance from the protocol simply allows him to be counted as an eligible player toward the requirement of eight players to avoid a postponement, Wojnarowski noted.
As of January 8
3 worst defensive efficiency
28 Nuggets
29 Kings
30 Wolves
I talked about those 3 teams defense before the season starts
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You talked about everyone and everything before the season started. You don’t get credit for a few of those things coming true.
He’s a modern-day Nostradamus.
Nostradumba*$ so to speak.
Throw enough things at a wall and eventually something will stick
Nobody cares.
How is embiid cleared, but he was the one that was sitting next to curry on the bench lol
Try most likely did this thing where they test him for the virus.
You ever heard of a thing called “contact tracing” ? You must sit out 7 days even if you test negative….
no other sport follows such a procedure
yea they do except they’re even worse at containing covid especially nfl dont know bout mlb or any other sports leagues
Embiid and Simmons were not reported injury after the Nets game
Scott is day to day
Nuggets fans don’t believe they are injured
I’d guess 76ers want the nba to postpone the game
dang. 2021 is gunna be harsh year…….. it’d be worse of an outbreak like these occured in the western conference.