Sunday stats: Unpacking Sixers lineup and on-off data after 15 games, with a focus on Tyrese Maxey

Sunday stats: Unpacking Sixers lineup and on-off data after 15 games, with a focus on Tyrese Maxey

The 2025-26 Sixers are nearly 20 percent through the regular season. Let's evaluate lineup data with the sample we have.

Tyrese Maxey Leading 76ers To Promising Start To Season

Philadelphia 76ers guard Tyrese Maxey is having quite the start to the season. After 16 games played, the 25-year-old is having his highest points per game since joining the league in 2020. He’s averaging 33.4 points per game while also averaging his best field goal percentage (47.3%) since the 2022-23 campaign. In the 76ers’ victory against the Milwaukee Bucks on Thursday, Maxey recorded a career-high 54 points as he led the team to its ninth w…

Sixers Notes: Embiid, Edgecombe, George, McCain

While Sixers center Joel Embiid is said to be making progress, he continues to deal with soreness in his right knee. The seven-time All-Star missed his seventh straight game on Sunday vs. Miami, but head coach Nick Nurse is optimistic Embiid will return sooner rather than later. “I think we’re trying to take the best care we can of him and get him out there,” Nurse said (Twitter link via Keith Pompey of The Philadelphia Inquirer). “He wants to p…