The Philadelphia 76ers are leaning toward shutting Joel Embiid down for the rest of the season amid his recurring knee injuries and the potential to lose their draft pick this year

The Sixers and Joel Embiid are weighing all options, including surgery, on his injured left knee that has forced him to miss time in the 2024-25 season.

The Philadelphia 76ers have lost seven consecutive games, are 12th in the Eastern Conference with a 20-36 record and have very little margin for error if they still stand a chance at making the playoffs,

In a game between two teams struggling to find the win column lately, the Philadelphia 76ers or the Chicago Bulls were bound to pick up a win Monday night. The Bulls — who came in losers of six straight games — proved to be the hungrier team by scoring their highest point total of the season thus far,

The Chicago Bulls traveled to the City of Brotherly Love on Monday night to take on the Philadelphia 76ers. The Bulls wound up beating the 76ers, 142-110.

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Even though Philadelphia ended the game on a 24-6 run in garbage time, the team lost by 32 points. It was the 76ers' eighth consecutive loss and their 10th in 11 games. They are now 20-37, 12th in the Eastern Conference and 2.

Yet, there it was, on the scoreboard, on all the social media derision, on the top of the implausibility-meter when the 76ers broke camp for the Bahamas.