Another guard should be coming soon.<\/p>\n
Going into a Tuesday night meeting with the Bulls, the guard-centric Sixers listed Jared McCain as probable to make his season debut.<\/p>\n
The second-year sharpshooter hasn\u2019t played since December of 2024. He\u2019s been eager to grind through one more injury rehab<\/a> \u2014 a torn lateral meniscus in his left knee last year, a torn UCL in his right thumb this year \u2014 and get the green light to play.<\/p>\n Ahead of the Sixers\u2019 win Sunday night over the Nets<\/a>, McCain went through a workout with assistant coaches on the Barclays Center floor. He didn\u2019t appear to have limitations in terms of speed or contact.\u00a0<\/p>\n The 5-1 Sixers listed both Paul George (left knee surgery recovery) and Dominick Barlow (right elbow laceration) as out against the 5-1 Bulls.\u00a0<\/p>\n Barring any setbacks, George has seemed to be closing in on a return. Sixers head coach Nick Nurse said that George had a \u201cgood workout\u201d Saturday with McCain.<\/p>\n Nurse noted that Barlow\u2019s laceration has taken longer to heal than the Sixers first expected<\/a> and described the healing process as \u201ckind of difficult,\u201d though he still called the injury \u201cnothing super major.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Once he\u2019s back in action, McCain should lighten the load on the Sixers\u2019 other main perimeter players. As of Monday night, reigning Eastern Conference Player of the Week Tyrese Maxey<\/a> ranked first in the NBA<\/a> at 42.4 minutes per game. VJ Edgecombe was second at 38.9, Kelly Oubre Jr. fourth at 38.1.<\/p>\n Quentin Grimes has also played a major early-season role off the bench for the Sixers. Maxey, Edgecombe, Oubre and Grimes have combined to average 91.7 points and 18.7 assists so far.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another guard should be coming soon. Going into a Tuesday night meeting with the Bulls, the guard-centric Sixers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,68172,590,9688,107314,102388,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-260854","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-jared-mccain","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-philadelphia-76ers","13":"tag-sixers-analysis","14":"tag-sixers-news","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}