{"id":55442,"date":"2025-10-19T16:23:51","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T20:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/embiid-returns-76ers-celebrate-after-8-months-of-absence-in-nba-preseason\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T16:23:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T20:23:51","slug":"embiid-returns-76ers-celebrate-after-8-months-of-absence-in-nba-preseason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nba\/embiid-returns-76ers-celebrate-after-8-months-of-absence-in-nba-preseason\/","title":{"rendered":"Embiid Returns: 76ers Celebrate After 8 Months of Absence in NBA Preseason"},"content":{"rendered":"Triumphant return! Joel Embiid returns to the courts with the 76ers after almost eight months of absence.\n\nIn an exciting preseason game against the Timberwolves, Embiid proved to be ready for the 2025-26 season.\n\n<h2>Embiid: &#8220;I&#8217;m happy to play basketball&#8221;<\/h2>\n\nThe 76ers&#8217; center, Joel Embiid, expressed his joy at returning to action after his knee surgery. His last appearance was on February 22.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cThe most important thing I felt was joy and happiness to be there. I am happy to touch the ball and play basketball\u201d.<\/p><cite>Joel Embiid<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nEmbiid showed a notable physical and mental improvement, leaving behind the cumbersome protection he used last season. His performance included 14 points, 7 rebounds, 8 assists, 3 steals, and 4 turnovers in 18 minutes and 35 seconds of play.\n\nCoach Nick Nurse praised Embiid&#8217;s performance, highlighting his good movement, shots, and passes.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a2.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F1018%2Fr1561825_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Joel Embiid en acci\u00f3n\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\nEmbiid played only 19 games last season, but now seems to be regaining his best form.\n\nTyrese Maxey also shared his enthusiasm for Embiid&#8217;s return, who was excited to get back on the court.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cThe first thing I asked him before going out on the court was: &#8216;Are you excited?&#8217; He responded: &#8216;I&#8217;m very excited to play!&#8217;\u201d.<\/p><cite>Tyrese Maxey<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nThe team also had standout performances from VJ Edgecombe and Quentin Grimes.\n\nEdgecombe, drafted, scored 26 points and Grimes, in his preseason debut, added 22 points.\n\nIn contrast, Paul George is still recovering from knee surgery and is not sure for the start of the season.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Triumphant return! Joel Embiid returns to the courts with the 76ers after almost eight months of absence. In an exciting preseason game against the Timberwolves, Embiid proved to be ready for the 2025-26 season. Embiid: &#8220;I&#8217;m happy to play basketball&#8221; The 76ers&#8217; center, Joel Embiid, expressed his joy at returning to action after his knee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[352,389,354,1063],"class_list":{"0":"post-55442","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-nba","7":"tag-76ers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-joel-embiid","10":"tag-preseason"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}