PHILADELPHIA — The 2024-25 season was a miserable one for the Philadelphia 76ers. Expected to contend for a championship, the Sixers went a miserable 24-58 as injuries decimated the roster and ruined any chance they had at contention.<\/p>\n
Jared McCain was one of those players derailed by an injury as he underwent surgery in December to repair a lateral meniscus tear in his left knee. He was limited to only 23 games following a promising start to the season when he averaged 15.3 points and shot 38.3% from deep which would have put him in the running for Rookie of the Year.<\/p>\n
As he heads into his second season, McCain is ready to put a trying rookie year behind him and look to get the Sixers back on track as he is easily motivated.<\/p>\n
“I mean,\u00a0you\u00a0use anything as motivation as we can,” McCain explained. “I mean, literally,\u00a0anything I can, whether it’s that I didn’t win an award that I wanted to win.\u00a0I wasn’t on a team that I wanted to win.\u00a0Just\u00a0using anything I can for your motivation.”<\/p>\n
As he prepares for his second go-around in the NBA, McCain is motivated to get back on the court and give the Sixers some production. He was sorely missed in the 2024-25 season as Philadelphia needed somebody who could step up and provide scoring from the perimeter. In his rookie season, McCain showed an ability to knock down an open 3 while also getting into the paint and making things happen for this offense.<\/p>\n
There isn’t a timeline yet for his return, but he did say that he is feeling good in an effort to get back healthy for the Sixers.<\/p>\n
“I’m feeling amazing, man,” he smiled. “I’m getting back to more live play, getting on-court more. Just excited to finally be free,\u00a0and\u00a0actually get some work in and play some basketball.”<\/p>\n
If the Sixers can get a healthy and motivated McCain for the new season, then they are going to be in great shape, surrounding their star trio with a strong supporting cast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA — The 2024-25 season was a miserable one for the Philadelphia 76ers. Expected to contend for a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3769],"tags":[679,7,1603,1255,1604,6,678,207,3817],"class_list":{"0":"post-264476","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-76ers","8":"tag-76ers","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-jared","11":"tag-jared-mccain","12":"tag-mccain","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-philadelphia","15":"tag-philadelphia-76ers","16":"tag-philadelphia76ers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115140443734948201","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}