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Off-Day Notes: Injury Report, Additional Buyout Market Candidates Joel Embiid is 'questionable' for tomorrow's road-trip finale against the Portland Trail Blazers with right knee injury management.

Full injury report for tomorrow's Sixers road trip finale in Portland. Included are notes on some buyout candidates that were not on this morning's list:

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Joel Embiid QUESTIONABLE for tomorrow @ Portland.

Certainly there are no idiots in America.

Top of the list for a reason!

Sixers Facing Tight Financial Squeeze in NBA's Buyout Market The Sixers still have a portion of their mid-level exception available to offer buyout targets, but they might not be willing to offer all of it.

I also wrote earlier today on where the Sixers stand financially after signing Dominick Barlow to a standard contract + how that affects their outlook in the buyout market.

Spoiler: It's not great! (But it does explain why they did what they did at the trade deadline.)
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Sixers Guard Named to 3-Point Contest at NBA All-Star Weekend No Sixers player has ever won the 3-Point Contest during the NBA All-Star Weekend. Tyrese Maxey now has a chance to be the first.

Did I look up every participant's pull-up three-point volume + efficiency when writing about Tyrese Maxey being named to the 3-Point Contest at All-Star Weekend?

No, of course not, that would be completely craz... oh.
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Tyrese Maxey will participate in the 3-point contest at All-Star weekend.

Ranking the Top Five Buyout Candidates For the Sixers There are players who are or may be out there looking for jobs. It is slim pickens, but you're not looking for core rotation pieces at this juncture. You're loo

The Sixers will have some options in the buyout market, but not everyone who will be available is available right now.

I projected who should be available and ranked the best options for Philadelphia

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Sixers Facing Tight Financial Squeeze in NBA's Buyout Market The Sixers still have a portion of their mid-level exception available to offer buyout targets, but they might not be willing to offer all of it.

A good explainer from @btoporek.bsky.social of why the Sixers are actually in a worse position on the buyout market after the Dom Barlow deal than initially thought.

Hint: It involves the seemingly radioactive tax line!

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Sixers Continue to Show Good Signs in Win Over Suns Joel Embiid extended his streak of games with at least 25 points to 10. Tyrese Maxey flirted with a triple-double. The Sixers won their third of four games on t

Don't look now, but the Sixers have shown some really good signs of change over the last couple games.

Their victory over the Suns on Saturday stacked on that:

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Sixers have won their 3rd of 4 on this road trip. They will have a chance to go 4-1 out west. They are 30-22.

Embiid 10 games in a row of at least 25 points.

Mature win. Didn't let bozo behavior from the Suns and officiating nonsense break their focus.

Maxey is at his best when he finds the blend of 3, middie, and layup. Been using the middie to make up for the 3 all night and it's terrorized the Suns.

Absolutely outrageous that Adam Silver took issue with that. Like the pettiest shit in the world.

All this time, the Sixers simply just needed to wear headbands.

Jared McCain finished with 5 points on 2-for-6 shooting, 2 reb, 1 ast, 2 tov in 14 minutes off the bench in his OKC debut.

Keyed a little run early in the fourth. OKC loses by 6.

Can't seem to figure out whether he wants a trade or not, and then acts like he decided he wasn't going to leave after letting the narrative build for two weeks that he finally decided he wanted out. Now he's with Kalshi, a clear conflict of interest. Do I have to even mention the horny jokes?

Giannis was really one Kevin Durant toenail away from being rightfully viewed as one of the most ridiculous stars in the NBA, and perhaps still is anyway.

I can’t offer much help to boost Bryan’s following but if you’re not following him, the work he’s done for us at On SI is second to none. You should be following and reading him daily if you’re not already.

Sixers Barf Up Frustrating Game to Lakers in Wake of Maddening Trade Deadline The Sixers got 35 points, seven rebounds and seven assists from Joel Embiid. Tyrese Maxey added 26 points and 13 assists. VJ Edgecombe went for 19 points and 10

The Sixers played a very good 30-or-so minutes of basketball before playing a terrible last 18 minutes. It cost them a very winnable game against the Los Angeles Lakers.

Regrettable game of basketball:

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Judging by the fact that he was simply inactive tonight, I’m not sure they’re foaming at the mouth to give him a lucrative deal.

Sixers Barf Up Frustrating Game to Lakers in Wake of Maddening Trade Deadline The Sixers got 35 points, seven rebounds and seven assists from Joel Embiid. Tyrese Maxey added 26 points and 13 assists. VJ Edgecombe went for 19 points and 10

The Sixers played a very good 30-or-so minutes of basketball before playing a terrible last 18 minutes. It cost them a very winnable game against the Los Angeles Lakers.

Regrettable game of basketball:

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Sixers led by 14 in the third. They trailed by as many as 16 in the fourth quarter tonight.

They were 5/24 from 3 and were -12 from that distance in this game.

Quentin Grimes had 4 points and 2 FGA in 27 minutes.

Luka did not play in the second half.

Sixers lose by 4.

Joel Embiid just put up 20 points on 10 shots, 5 rebs, 4 ast, 1 steal and no turnovers in 18 first-half minutes.

Joel Embiid is AVAILABLE tonight. It is his 30th game of the season.

The Sixers have officially signed Dominick Barlow to a standard contract, they announced.

Report: Sixers Signing Key Rotation Player to Standard NBA Contract It doesn't make up for theirinfuriating trade deadline, but the Sixers got what they wanted out of their maneuvering.

A week ago, Dominick Barlow was asked to accept coming off the bench after starting most of this season.

Now he's on a standard contract, finally earning some stability in his NBA career.

This is not a conversion on a two-way; it's a whole new contract:

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The Sixers Have Dodged the Luxury Tax Again. If Not Now, Then When? This is four years in a row in which they've opted for tax savings at the trade deadline.

The Sixers have a gift that few teams get - stars who do not apply public pressure.

They rewarded that with a fourth consecutive season of cutting costs.

If this wasn't the time to take a swing, when will it be?

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6 teams above the Play-In line right now avoided the luxury tax by the trade deadline.

4 are teams that are in excellent positions as is and should feel really good.

The other 2 are the Sixers and Toronto Raptors.

NBA Trade Deadline Day: Three Cost-Effective Targets to Improve the Sixers There is still time to make additions to the team and there are plenty of things Philadelphia can do to help this groupreach its potential for the season . Havi

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I whittled my trade deadline list down to three names.

Here are three cost-effective players that would help the team, with rationale on why they'd fit, as the final hours of the trade deadline tick down:

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