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Sixers vs. Nets, Game 5: 3 storylines to watch and how to stream the game originally appeared on nbcsportsphiladelphia.com The Sixers will look to close out the series at home in Game 5 against the Brooklyn Nets on Tuesday evening. A Nets starting lineup change in Game 4 (adding Caris LeVert and Jared Dudley) gave Brooklyn a lift. Joel Embiid is officially listed as probable (left knee soreness), while Ed Davis is questionable (right ankle sprain). Continue to Article

April 23, 2019 11:27:am EST

Predictions for Game 5 of Sixers vs. Nets playoff series originally appeared on nbcsportsphiladelphia.com After a dramatic Game 4 win in Brooklyn that had everything you could've wanted, the Sixers can finish off the Nets Tuesday night at Wells Fargo Center. Paul Hudrick and Noah Levick give their predictions for Game 5: Hudrick We've gotten the most positive injury update about Joel Embiid this entire series with him being listed as probable for Game 5 with left knee soreness. Though it's super dangerous to do so, let's look at this under the assumption Embiid will play. Continue to Article

April 23, 2019 12:15:am EST

Will Joel Embiid play in Game 5? Gotta keep 'em guessing' originally appeared on nbcsportsphiladelphia.com CAMDEN, N.J. - If you're frustrated by all the last-minute, game-time decisions for Joel Embiid, you're not alone. Nets coach Kenny Atkinson voiced his displeasure before Game 4 about finding out the Sixers' starting lineup five minutes before each game of the series. Continue to Article

April 22, 2019 2:50:pm EST

After the victory, he delivered a fantastic joke while speaking to the media at the podium: The Warriors blew a 3-1 lead in the 2016 NBA Finals and the basketball world will clearly never forget. Andrew Bogut -- who hurt his knee in Game 5 of that infamous series and missed Games 6 and 7 -- responded to Embiid in a column he wrote for Yahoo Sport Australia: Joel Embiid saying the 76ers don't want to do what we did in the 2016 Finals is just Joel being Joel – he's a bit of a larrikin. But they have to get to a Finals series first before they can even think about doing that. Continue to Article

April 22, 2019 2:42:pm EST

Joel Embiid may have called Jared Dudley "a nobody" after this past weekend's Sixers win against the Nets, but he's certainly somebody to Philly fans. Dudley, who looks more like the Pillsbury Dough Boy than an NBA combo forward, played his role perfectly on Saturday: he instigated a fight and got one of the Sixers star players in Jimmy Butler ejected from the game alongside him. Dudley did his job. Continue to Article

April 22, 2019 10:17:am EST