At three hours before the match, the NBA delivered its verdict: the meeting between the Sixers and the Nuggets will take place tonight (9:00 p.m., BeIN Sports 3)! Which means that Philadelphia will be able to appear with at least eight players in uniform, the minimum authorized by the NBA. According to ESPN, they will be precisely nine out of the 17 players in the workforce.
Since their trip to Brooklyn, a majority of Sixers had been placed in solitary confinement because of the positive test of Seth Curry, but also of a member of the staff.
Besides Ben Simmons, Dwight Howard, Tony Bradley, Tyrese Maxey, Isaiah Joe and Dakota Mathias, who were not in solitary confinement, Joel Embiid, Danny Green and Paul Reed are allowed to play. Although this is good news for Doc Rivers, the squad will be greatly reduced to challenge the Nuggets.
Moreover, it is not certain that the nine are playing tonight, and in particular Embiid …
| Tirs | Rebounds | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | MJ | Min | Tirs | 3pts | LF | Off | Def | Until | Pd | Bp | Int | Ct | Fte | Pts |
| Joel Embiid | 8 | 32.3 | 52.5 | 45.8 | 83.3 | 1.8 | 10.0 | 11.8 | 3.2 | 3.1 | 1.1 | 1.8 | 2.2 | 24.6 |
| Tobias Harris | 9 | 32.8 | 50.7 | 44.7 | 82.4 | 1.4 | 6.4 | 7.9 | 3.1 | 2.2 | 1.1 | 1.0 | 2.2 | 19.0 |
| Seth Curry | 8 | 30.0 | 60.3 | 59.5 | 100.0 | 0.1 | 2.1 | 2.2 | 3.6 | 1.5 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 1.8 | 17.0 |
| Shake Milton | 9 | 25.9 | 45.8 | 27.5 | 82.4 | 0.2 | 1.4 | 1.7 | 3.3 | 1.4 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 2.1 | 14.1 |
| Ben Simmons | 9 | 32.7 | 50.5 | 50.0 | 60.9 | 0.8 | 8.0 | 8.8 | 7.0 | 3.6 | 1.4 | 1.2 | 3.1 | 13.4 |
| Danny Green | 9 | 24.7 | 43.9 | 39.1 | 80.0 | 0.9 | 2.0 | 2.9 | 2.1 | 1.2 | 1.3 | 0.6 | 2.1 | 8.0 |
| Tyrese Maxey | 9 | 15.7 | 45.9 | 35.7 | 100.0 | 0.1 | 1.6 | 1.7 | 1.6 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.8 | 6.9 |
| Furkan Korkmaz | 3 | 18.3 | 25.0 | 25.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 6.0 |
| Dwight Howard | 9 | 13.7 | 71.0 | 100.0 | 50.0 | 1.7 | 4.7 | 6.3 | 0.6 | 1.9 | 0.2 | 0.7 | 3.3 | 5.9 |
| Dakota Mathias | 4 | 7.5 | 46.7 | 33.3 | 66.7 | 0.0 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 4.8 |
| Mike Scott | 5 | 16.0 | 33.3 | 26.3 | 66.7 | 0.6 | 2.0 | 2.6 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 1.2 | 4.2 |
| Tony Bradley | 1 | 17.4 | 28.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 8.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 2.0 | 4.0 |
| Matisse Thybulle | 9 | 12.5 | 31.8 | 21.4 | 100.0 | 0.1 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 1.1 | 2.0 |
| Paul Reed, Jr. | 1 | 1.4 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 2.0 |
| Vincent Poirier | 3 | 4.7 | 33.3 | 0.0 | 50.0 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 1.3 |
| Isaiah Joe | 4 | 6.9 | 14.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 1.0 | 1.2 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 1.2 | 0.5 |
| Terrance Ferguson | 4 | 3.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 |
