{"id":17628,"date":"2021-11-12T15:07:40","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T09:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=165951"},"modified":"2021-11-12T15:07:40","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T09:37:40","slug":"sixers-joel-embiid-chicago-bulls-nikola-vucevic-out-due-to-covid-19-protocols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/nba\/sixers-joel-embiid-chicago-bulls-nikola-vucevic-out-due-to-covid-19-protocols\/","title":{"rendered":"Sixers\u2019 Joel Embiid & Chicago Bulls\u2019 Nikola Vucevic out due to COVID-19 protocols"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 27-year-old was supposed to sit out Monday\u2019s 103-96 loss to the New York Knicks, but due to the NBA\u2019s health and safety standards, he\u2019ll likely miss more games. The game against the defending champs, the Milwaukee Bucks, is one of the games Embiid will miss.<br \/>\nBefore the loss to the Knicks, Rivers observed, \u201cHe\u2019s not performing well \u2013 he\u2019s battling.\u201d With an average of 21.4 points and 9.4 rebounds per game so far this season, Embiid has been a crucial player in the Sixers\u2019 strong start. It has a big impact on the Sixers as they are already without Ben Simmons and looks like will be without him for an extended period, while Harris has returned in the lineup his and his partner Seth Curry\u2019s outcome will not be enough to hold the 4th seed in the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Joel Embiid 30 PTS 15 REB Full Highlights vs Bulls \ud83d\udd25\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I-suN6_PHtU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Nikola Vucevic landed in the league\u2019s health and safety protocols Thursday morning, putting the Chicago Bulls\u2019 five-game West Coast trip on hold before it ever started. After many publications reported the news, the team acknowledged it on its official injury report for Friday\u2019s game against the Golden State Warriors. According to insiders, the All-Star centre will miss many games and will be out for at least 10 days. The Bulls were set to fly to San Francisco on Thursday afternoon ahead of their matchup with the NBA\u2019s best Warriors on Friday. Vucevic did not travel.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=X5054zsB52w<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year\u2019s MVP runner-up Joel Embiid and Chicago Bulls newly added centre Nikola Vucevic to miss at least 10 days due to NBA\u2019s health and safety protocols. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":220,"featured_media":38372,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2839,826,2888,2841],"class_list":["post-17628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","tag-joel-embiid","tag-nba","tag-nikola-vucevic","tag-philadelphia-sixer"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/220"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}