Tyrese Maxey has been taking part in with a sprained finger on his taking pictures hand. Monday, he additionally injured his again.
Maxey left Monday’s 119-102 loss to the Portland Path Blazers halfway by means of the third quarter after taking a tough fall. It is one other harm in a season filled with them for the Philadelphia 76ers, on the heels of the workforce shutting Joel Embiid for the season. Although coach Nick Nurse does not assume the harm is critical.
Nurse thinks Maxey can journey with the workforce and even play in Tuesday’s recreation towards the Minnesota Timberwolves. That looks as if a reckless transfer for a participant who already has an harm that is clearly affecting his taking pictures — Maxey is 4-for-27 in his final two video games. However it’s additionally not surprising given a Sixers season filled with mismanaged accidents.
The NBA fined the team $100K for being misleading about Embiid’s balky knee, after Nurse and workforce president Daryl Morey praised their middle’s weight reduction and restoration whereas holding him out of the start of the season. Paul George has been out and in of the lineup with leg points and his personal injured finger. All whereas the Sixers have misplaced 10 of their final 11 video games and fallen to 21-39.
The workforce desires to stay aggressive, as a result of within the depressing backside half of the Jap Convention, the Sixers are nonetheless 2.5 video games out of the play-in event. However sooner or later, they should let their gamers get wholesome, particularly because the workforce is hardly successful with Maxey and George taking part in by means of their accidents.
If Maxey performs on the second half of a back-to-back, it exhibits Philly’s desperation to win, but additionally a disregard for the well being of its gamers. If the Sixers’ method accidents has introduced them to twelfth place, maybe it is time to alter that method.
