Joel Embiid will remain out due to his ongoing right knee troubles when the Sixers host the Miami Heat on Sunday afternoon, according to the team's initial injury report for the game unveiled on Saturday evening, while rookie VJ Edgecombe is questionable due to calf tightness:

For Embiid – who has not played since Nov. 8 and will miss his seventh game in a row – this will be his sixth consecutive absence caused by a right knee issue he reported to the team on the morning of Nov. 11. It was initially being characterized as soreness before the designation was changed to injury management.

The Sixers said on Saturday that while Embiid participated in their shortened practice more like a pregame shootaround, he was still dealing with soreness in his knee and that doctors believed he is still

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