Sources – Philadelphia 76ers star Joel Embiid has a hematoma on his knee, may be missing 2 weeks

Philadelphia 76ers star Joel Embiid has a bone bruise on his left knee and may be two weeks away, sources told ESPN.

An overnight MRI scan did not reveal any structural damage to the knee that Embiid hyperextended in his victory over Washington on Friday night, the sources said. Embiid underwent an MRI immediately after returning to Philadelphia on Friday night, sources said.

ACL and Embiid’s meniscus are doing well, the sources said, and there is significant relief in Sixers that the injury is not much worse.

Embiid left the game on Friday night when he hyperextended his left knee after landing with full weight on his leg after a dunk in the third quarter.

Embiid was in the midst of the most dominant performance of his season of the MVP caliber, scoring 23 points from 8 of 11 shots to go along with 7 rebounds, 3 assists and 2 blocks in 20 minutes, when he received a pass from Tobias Harris and flew to one dunk to give Philadelphia an 80-60 lead with 6 minutes, 20 seconds remaining in the third quarter.

But when Embiid fell after the dunk, the entire weight of his body fell on his left leg – causing a hyperextension, making him fall on the court and making him squirm in pain.

After falling for a few minutes, Embiid finally got up and walked on his own – although limping a lot – as he headed straight back to the visitors’ locker room inside Washington’s Capital One Arena.

Embiid went through a similarly frightening situation last month when he hyperextended his right knee in an awkward fall against the Portland Trail Blazers after blocking a tray from Enes Kanter. In that game, Embiid came back a few minutes later and dominated, scoring 31 points in the first half in a game that Philadelphia ended up losing.

The Sixers recovered Embiid on Friday night, after he and Simmons lost Thursday’s victory in Chicago over the Bulls – as well as Sunday’s All-Star Game in Atlanta – because of contact tracking from a barber that both stars visited before going to Atlanta.

ESPN’s Tim Bontemps contributed to this report.