The Philadelphia 76ers experience missed another vital starter and playmaker. Point ward Tyrese Maxey exited Fri night’s gritty against the Milwaukee Bucks with a left wing foot up injury.

The Bucks fouled Maxey during a firm interruption endeavour belatedly in the secondment quarter. Maxey awkwardly landed on the hardwood. He exited the spunky shortly afterward and ne'er returned.

Max said what he e'er says: ‘Coach, I’m good,'” said 76ers chief manager Doc Rivers. “But I had a risky feeling. I don’t cognise if he’ll be just right on away, was my guess.”

At the clip of the injury, Maxey had scored 24 points on 9-for-12 shot in just now 21 minutes. Without Maxey inward the secondment half, the 76ers held sour the Bucks to win.

Streaky 76ers

The understaffed 76ers are treading H2O with an 8-8 track record after a horrible start. They missed their 1st 3 games of the flavour and started 1-4 before winning trio games inward a row to draw upwardly to an fifty-fifty .500 at 4-4. The streaky 76ers and then lost threesome come out of their next Little Joe games before bouncy indorse with another three-game winning streak that got them plump for on track.

The 76ers missed on Saturday, 112-109, in a fill up biz against the Minnesota Timberwolves, regular though they didn’t hold their starting backcourt in the lineup. Maxey joins shooting safety James II Harden on the injury lean after he missed septet games with a strained hoof it tendon.

The 76ers were +1800 betting odds shoemaker's last week to win the 2022-23 NBA championship. After Maxey’s injury, oddsmakers adjusted their statute title betting odds to +2200.

The 76ers are at present fastened for third with the Toronto Raptors to win the Atlantic Division at +1600 odds. The Boston Celtics are the consensus favorite to win the Atlantic at -700 odds, followed past the Brooklyn Nets at +900 odds.

Maxey: Unfortunate Pause on Career Season

The 76ers ab initio diagnosed Maxey with a invertebrate foot hurt when X-rays were negative on Fri evening. Maxey underwent further testing o'er the weekend, and an MRI indicated he had a leg it fracture.

Maxey testament escape a minimum of trine to 4 weeks. He could undergo surgery, but it’s terra incognita if that route could hasten his recovery or append to a greater extent time. The 76ers testament piddle that telephone call later this week after Maxey gets a endorsement opinion.

In his third harden with the 76ers, Maxey is putting upwards career-best numbers. He averages 22.9 points, 4.4 assists, and 3.5 rebounds per gamy this season. He’s also shooting 42.2% from 3-point range.

When Harden went down, Maxey and Book of Joel Embiid increased their scoring output. Embiid leads the NBA with 32.3 points per game, but he’s averaging 37.3 points in November. Dating backward to the finally ii weeks, or previous quatern games, Embiid averages 41.3 points per game, thanks to a 59-point detonation inwards a victory over the Mormon State Jazz last-place Sunday.

Doc Rivers to Lean on Melton, Matisse, and Shake

The 76ers acquired safety De’Anthony Melton inward the off-season from the Memphis Grizzlies to long pillow their bench. Melton averages 9.6 points, 4.5 assists, and 3.1 assists per biz this season. Melton earned a furtherance to starting shot safety device when Harden was sidelined inwards betimes November.

Rivers testament rely on backup guards Shake John Milton and Henri Emile Benoit Matisse Thybulle to make full in for Maxey and Harden.

Milton is a streaky crap-shooter who is averaging 6.8 points, 2.4 rebounds, and 1.8 assists away the bench this season. However, he’s posting a career-low 31.3% from 3-point land.

Thybulle started 50 games utmost season, but Rivers benched him this season. He’s averaging a career-low 1.3 points, 1.3 rebounds, and 0.3 assists inward below 12 minutes of trading floor time per game this season. To perplex matters, he’s shot frappe insensate from 3-point range, averaging 17.6% from beyond the arc. Thybulle has the chance to capture come out of Rivers’ dog put up with two starters sidelined.

Harden is expected to proceeds to process in betimes December. The 76ers are 4-2 without Harden, but they’ll experience to toy anyplace from sestet to octet to a greater extent games before he returns to the starting lineup.

The 76ers feature a engaged cease of November, with sixer games on the schedule. They also feature II games slated inward the 1st week of December that Harden could miss.

Six of their next eighter from Decatur games are on the road, with the 76ers hosting home games against the Brooklyn Nets (8-9) and Atlanta Hawks (10-6). The 76ers come to the route to play big teams ilk the Queen City Hornets (4-14), Houston Rockets (3-14), and the Orlando Magic (5-12) inwards a consecutive series. They’ll also human face difficult route opponents, including the President Cleveland Cavaliers (10-6) and Memphis Grizzlies (10-7).