Joel Embiid was feeling “pretty good” a day after the 76ers superstar’s latest injury concern, according to his coach, but was officially listed as questionable for Monday’s Game 2 against the Knicks.

Embiid missed the final 2:37 of the second quarter of Game 1 on Saturday after appearing to tweak his left knee during an emphatic alley-oop dunk — the same knee he underwent surgery for in February.

He returned to start the third quarter and finished with 29 points, eight rebounds and six assists in 37 minutes in Philly’s 111-104 loss at Madison Square Garden to begin the first round of the playoffs.

“I asked him how he’s feeling and he said, ‘Pretty good,'” 76ers head coach Nick Nurse said Sunday.

Embiid’s Game 2 designation, which came out Sunday, was for left knee injury recovery.

The reigning NBA MVP missed about two months after undergoing a procedure on the lateral meniscus in his left knee in early February. Saturday marked his seventh game back.

Saturday’s scare came after Embiid lobbed a pass to himself off of the backboard and finished the dunk, then landed on the ground and grabbed at his left knee.

“I knew when I went in at halftime that they were checking him out, and that he was up and moving,” Nurse said after the game. “And they did say, ‘We’re seeing.’ They didn’t rule him out yet. They just took him all the way to the end there to get him ruled back in.”

Nurse added the Sixers would continue to assess Embiid’s health but weren’t considering shutting him down.

“He’s really a warrior, and he’s battling,” Nurse said. “I think he absolutely wants to play.”

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