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Joel Embiid’s Back-To-Back Debut Postponed

January 29th 2018 at 2:12pm CST by Austin Kent

JANUARY 29: Embiid won’t play on Monday night after all, according to Keith Pompey of The Philadelphia Inquirer, who tweets that the Sixers are playing it safe due to the “heavy loading” in Sunday’s game. The current plan is for Embiid to play both halves of the team’s back-to-back on Friday and Saturday against the Heat and Pacers.

JANUARY 28: For the first time in his two active seasons, Joel Embiid has been cleared to play a back-to-back for the Sixers, Keith Pompey of The Philadelphia Inquirer writes.

Embiid himself said that it depends on how he feels after the club’s Sunday night loss to the Thunder but technically he’s available and adds that he’s felt particularly good of late. On the floor, the 23-year-old has looked better than good, averaging 23.6 points and 10.9 rebounds in just 31.4 minutes per game of action.

Up to this point in the 2017/18 campaign, the Sixers have played in five back-to-backs and Embiid has missed at least one contest in all of them. While there’s no indication that this will necessarily be a regular occurrence, we wrote earlier in the month that Embiid had hoped to reach such an arrangement by the end of January.

The Sixers sit very much in the Eastern Conference playoff picture, eighth, in fact, just 1.5 games behind the fifth-seeded Wizards. On the season, Philly is 24-22 but their record is a slightly more impressive 21-15 when you excluding games that he’s been held out for.

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