{"id":936618,"date":"2026-10-17T16:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T16:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/936618\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T16:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T16:30:09","slug":"76ers-needing-frontcourt-help-convert-7-foot-6-tacko-fall-to-two-way-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/936618\/","title":{"rendered":"76ers, needing frontcourt help, convert 7-foot-6 Tacko Fall to two-way contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">PHILADELPHIA &#8212; The 76ers have converted center Tacko Fall to a two-way contract, the team announced Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Last month, the Sixers signed the 7-foot-6 center to an Exhibit 10 deal, and injuries to the Sixers frontcourt likely led to Fall getting this spot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ariel Hukporti, projected to be the Sixers\u2019 backup center, suffered a season-ending right Achilles tear in the preseason. Center Adem Bona, potentially the next man up, has been sidelined with a foot injury, and Dominick Barlow has battled back soreness that kept him out of the preseason.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Fall hasn\u2019t played in the NBA since the 2021-22 season when he was with the Cleveland Cavaliers. This will be his fourth season in the NBA. He played his first two in Boston with new Sixers forward Jaylen Brown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 30-year-old Fall most recently played for the Ningbo Rockets of the Chinese Basketball Association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA &#8212; The 76ers have converted center Tacko Fall to a two-way contract, the team announced Saturday. Last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":936619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,144379,82,320854],"class_list":["post-936618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-philadelphia-76ers-sports-basketball-team-team-statscom-20","tag-sports","tag-tacko-fall-sports-basketball-player-player-statscom-879498"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936618","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=936618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/936619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}