The NBA fined the Philadelphia 76ers $100,000 on Friday for violating the league's injury reporting rules regarding Joel Embiid's return to the court Tuesday night.
Alan Hahn and Austin Rivers discuss how the Celtics can only beat themselves in the playoffs and question Joel Embiid's postseason performance. Embiid, who had been listed as out for Tuesday's game for 24 hours, was suddenly upgraded to questionable just before 76ers coach Nick Nurse spoke around 5:45 p.m.
Entering Friday night, ESPN's Basketball Power Index has the three teams battling for the sixth, seventh and eight spots -- Philadelphia, Miami and thePhiladelphia's victory over Miami meant the tiebreaker will go to better conference record, as the two teams split their four games this season. Indiana, however, holds the tiebreaker and has a chance to clinch it over Miami with a win against the Heat on Sunday.
Embiid has been impactful in his two games back, scoring 24 points -- including getting the game-clinching steal and hitting the winning free throws -- against the Thunder. He finished with 29 points in 32 minutes in Thursday's win in Miami. Embiid is unlikely to play both Saturday in Memphis and Sunday in San Antonio to complete Philadelphia's final road trip. The team is expected to give him one-half of the that back-to-back off as he continues his recovery. With no setbacks, he'd be in position to play each of the final three games of the regular season next week at home against the
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