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Tyrese Maxey OUT for Concussion Evaluation
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Tyrese Maxey is OUT for Tuesday night’s game against Brooklyn due to concussion evaluation as a result of this play in Dallas on Sunday:
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— Diamond Dog (@DiamondDogzzz) March 3, 2024
It happened with a little more than four minutes remaining in the third quarter, just a slip that caused him to go down and bang his noggin right into Derrick Jones Jr.’s leg. Maxey was able to walk off the floor, sat out the rest of the quarter, and then came back in to play the entirety of the fourth.
The reporting from various scribes and media people as of Tuesday afternoon is that Maxey was cleared by doctors to re-enter, re-assessed after the game, and then brought back to Philadelphia when symptoms appeared over the next 24 hours. That’s entirely plausible since sometimes there’s a delayed onset with concussions. You can feel fine in the immediacy, and then 48 hours later, oh shit.
So no Tyrese in this game, no Joel Embiid, no Robert Covington, no De’Anthony Melton, no Ben Simmons, no Lonnie Walker. Should be an instant classic. This is exactly the type of game where Tobias Harris needs to take 25 shots and be selfish with the ball. He’s got the biggest green light in the history of traffic signals.
Kevin has been writing about Philadelphia sports since 2009. He spent seven years in the CBS 3 sports department and started with the Union during the team's 2010 inaugural season. He went to the academic powerhouses of Boyertown High School and West Virginia University. email - k.kinkead@sportradar.com