The Philadelphia 76ers were playing without Joel Embiid, VJ Edgecombe and Paul George on Saturday night in Atlanta. Then, with less than a minute left in a125-116 lossto the Hawks, Tyrese Maxey suffered an apparent hand injury that head coach Nick Nursereportedlysaid called for X-rays.
With less than 30 seconds to go, Maxey went for a steal and collided in the paint with teammate Adem Bona, a 6-foot-10, 235-pound big man.
Immediately, Maxey grabbed his right hand in pain.
The two-time All-Star guard walked off the floor with 16.2 ticks remaining, tucking his hand under his jersey as he headed toward the locker room.
The Athletic's Tony Jonesreported Saturday night that Maxey will receive additional testing on his right finger on Sunday.
"Nothing conclusive tonight,"Jones wrote on X.
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Maxey came into the game leading the team and ranking fourth in the NBA with a career-high 28.9 points per game.
He scored 31 points on 12-of-22 shooting in Atlanta for a short-handed Sixers squad. With the loss, Philadelphia dropped to 34-29. The Sixers are now eighth in the Eastern Conference standings and just 1.5 games ahead of the ninth-place Hawks, who improved to 33-31 with Saturday's pivotal victory.
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Atlanta got 35 points, 10 rebounds and 7 assists from All-Star forward Jalen Johnson. Nickeil Alexander-Walker chipped in 24 points and went 4 of 9 from deep.
Embiid missed his 30th game this season, including his fourth straight. His latest issueis an oblique strain. The Sixers are 21-12 in the games Embiid has played in this season. They are 13-17 without him.
They were also missing Edgecombe, as the rookie guard was sidelined by a lumbar contusion he sustained when he fell hard on his lower backafter being fouled from behind on a 3-point attempt in a lopsided defeat to the San Antonio Spurs on Tuesday.
George still has nine games remainingon the 25-game suspension he received from the league on Jan. 31 for violating the league's anti-drug program.