{"id":879855,"date":"2026-09-01T20:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T20:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/879855\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T20:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T20:10:10","slug":"sixers-invite-former-nba-centre-tacko-fall-guard-jameer-nelson-jr-to-training-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/879855\/","title":{"rendered":"Sixers invite former NBA centre Tacko Fall, guard Jameer Nelson Jr. to training camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA \u2014 Tacko Fall is back in the NBA.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/philadelphia-76ers\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"philadelphia-76ers\" data-league=\"nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Philadelphia 76ers<\/a> announced on Tuesday that they have invited the towering 7-foot-6 Fall to training camp later this month.<\/p>\n<p>Fall, 30, last played in the NBA with Cleveland during the 2021-22 season. He&#8217;s spent the last four years playing internationally, averaging 11.2 points, 7.2 rebounds and 2.1 blocks in 18.1 minutes while competing in China and New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>The Senegal native played in 37 games for Boston and Cleveland from 2020-22.<\/p>\n<p>The Sixers, who signed LeBron James and traded for Jaylen Brown in the offseason, are inexperienced at center behind Joel Embiid, with 23-year-old Adem Bona and 24-year-old Ariel Hukporti as the other two centers on the roster.<\/p>\n<p>Nelson Jr., the son of former NBA guard and Saint Joseph&#8217;s star Jameer Nelson, spent last season with the G League&#8217;s Stockton Kings, where he averaged 18.9 points and shot 47% from 3-point range.<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia is also giving forward Saint Thomas a camp invite. Thomas averaged 12.5 points, 5.0 rebounds and 3.7 assists for Philadelphia&#8217;s G League affiliate last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA \u2014 Tacko Fall is back in the NBA. The Philadelphia 76ers announced on Tuesday that they have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":879856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-879855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=879855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/879856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}