Sixers’ Joel Embiid, Tobias Harris questionable for Monday game with Indiana
Harris missed last game with a bruised right knee while Embiid is on the injured list with left ankle soreness.
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Tobias Harris and Joel Embiid are listed as questionable for the 76ers home game on Monday against the Indiana Pacers.
Harris missed Saturday’s 112-109 overtime loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers with a right knee bruise. Embiid is listed as questionable with left ankle soreness.
Harris suffered his injury in Thursday’s 111-97 home win over the Dallas Mavericks. An MRI on Friday morning revealed no structural damage.
Harris has missed four games this year. In addition to Saturday, he also missed three games due to COVID-19 contact tracing as part of the NBA’s health and safety protocols.
The Sixers are 1-3 with Harris out of the lineup.
Embiid played a season-high 40 minutes and 29 seconds in Saturday’s loss, and totaled 42 points, 13 rebounds, and 6 assists. This season, Embiid has missed six games and the Sixers are 1-5.
Pacers guard Malcolm Brogdon, who missed his first game during Saturday’s 110-107 loss at New York with right knee soreness, is listed as questionable. Teammate Jeremy Lamb is also questionable, with left knee soreness.
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Joe to G League
The Sixers have assigned rookie guard Isaiah Joe to the Delaware Blue Coats, their G League team.
The Blue Coats are playing in the G League bubble at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex at the Walt Disney World Resort in Kissimmee, Fla.
The 6-foot-4 Joe was a second-round pick, selected 49th out of Arkansas. He has appeared in 20 games, averaging 4.3 points. Known for his perimeter game, Joe is shooting 38.3% from three-point range. The NBA average this year from beyond the arc is 36.9%.
Joe has not played in 14 games and was averaging 12 minutes per game, but that figure is deceptive.
That’s because Joe got his most extensive playing time when the Sixers were shorthanded due to health and safety protocols and injury.
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During a four-game period from Jan. 9-14, he averaged 14 points and shot 41.7% from three-point range in 32.3 minutes.
The Blue Coats will be playing the G League select team known as the G League Ignite at 3 p.m. Monday in a game that will be televised on ESPN2.