Joel Embiid (right hip contusion) is probable for Game 1 of the Sixers’ second-round playoff series against the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden on Monday night, according to the team’s initial injury report for the game unveiled on Sunday:
The Sixers have an injury report for tomorrow's Game 1 @ New York:
Joel Embiid – right hip contusion – PROBABLE— Adam Aaronson (@SixersAdam) May 3, 2026
Embiid, who earned the most important win of his NBA career on Saturday night, was clearly laboring and in significant pain by the end of the Sixers’ Game 7 win over the Boston Celtics at TD Garden. He has shouldered a massive workload since returning from his April 9 emergency appendectomy, and for the first time since then his appendectomy is not part of the Sixers' injury report.
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Meanwhile, New York’s injury report only has one player listed; reserve forward Jeremy Sochan is probable with left hamstring tightness.
The full schedule for the series can be found here.
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