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Millsap being back out there will not affect the 76ers a whole lot and therefore will not affect the construction of any lineups you create for tomorrow’s games.

Millsap being out will not have an impact as far as fantasy basketball is concerned, as he has not been a consistent member of the 76ers rotation.

On the second night of a back to back, there’s a chance that Embiid stays on the sidelines to nurse some ankle soreness. If that’s the case, the 76ers will likely use a few different guys to make up for Embiid’s absence. Last time, they relied on Paul Millsap and DeAndre Jordan, who are both long past their days of fantasy relevance.

Embiid has been nagged by the sore back recently, but this hasn’t been enough to keep him on the bench outside of the occasional rest night. He’ll be back in the middle on Wednesday, and could be in for a big night given the Lakers’ lack of quality options at the center position. Paul Millsap will return to the bench, where neither he nor DeAndre Jordan offers much in the way of fantasy value.

Millsap played sparingly across his first seven games for the Sixers before being slapped with seven straight DNP-CDs. Strangely, he drew the start at center with Joel Embiid out, though he wasn’t able to do much for fantasy managers in his 23 minutes on the court. We hope you didn’t pick him and waste one of your weekly moves.

Both James Harden and Joel Embiid are taking the night off, so Niang and Millsap will each receive spot-starts, and they’ll be joined in the first unit by Tyrese Maxey, Matisse Thybulle and Tobias Harris. All these guys look like solid DFS targets, and Niang is someone to consider streaming if you want a boost in triples.

If Joel Embiid didn’t exist, Millsap would be looking at a revenge game. However, Embiid is pretty good and Millsap backs him up, so just ignore him.

There are no details as to what Millsap is dealing with, so hopefully there will be some more information to come. He wasn’t on the fantasy radar anyways, so this shouldn’t affect anyone’s roster.

That snaps a streak of 31 straight games with at least 25 points for Embiid and the list of other Sixers to score in double figures tonight is: Tyrese Maxey with 11 points on 3-of-11 shooting. That’s it. Tobias Harris hit 2-of-7 shots for six points and Paul Millsap made his Sixers debut and scored nine meaningless points in nine minutes. This box score is painful to look at and can probably just be thrown in the trash. The Sixers are clearly ready for the All-Star break and will finish out the week with another tough match-up at Milwaukee on Thursday night.

It looks like Millsap will be making his Philly debut tomorrow night, but we wouldn’t expect much from him, as he’ll be relegated to a reserve role behind Joel Embiid. Leave Millsap on the waiver wire.