Center Adem Bona has picked up an injury late in the offseason, the Sixers announced Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
An MRI confirmed that Bona has \u201csuffered a left foot sprain,\u201d the team said in a statement. He\u2019s \u201cexpected to be re-evaluated at the start of training camp.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Sixers are set to hold their media day on Sept. 28 and then practice at training camp from Sept. 29 through Oct. 2. Their four-game preseason will begin on Oct. 5<\/a> and their regular-season opener is scheduled for Oct. 20 at 7 p.m. ET against the Knicks.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n We\u2019ll see whether Bona\u2019s injury winds up affecting the Sixers\u2019 early-season outlook at backup center.<\/a> The team has the 23-year-old Bona and 24-year-old Ariel Hukporti<\/a> as traditional center options behind star big man Joel Embiid. Veteran Andre Drummond signed with the Knicks this summer.<\/a><\/p>\n Bona made 71 regular-season appearances last year in his second NBA season and averaged 4.8 points, 4.3 rebounds and 1.2 blocks in 17.4 minutes per game.<\/p>\n The 2024 second-round draft pick played for Turkey this offseason, helping the nation qualify for the 2027 FIBA World Cup. <\/a>Bona averaged 8.8 points, 7.3 rebounds and 3.0 blocks over four games.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Center Adem Bona has picked up an injury late in the offseason, the Sixers announced Thursday.\u00a0 An MRI…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":837651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3769],"tags":[679,1262,7,6,678,207,3817,5902,4186,49668],"class_list":["post-837650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia-76ers","tag-76ers","tag-adem-bona","tag-basketball","tag-nba","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-76ers","tag-philadelphia76ers","tag-sixers-analysis","tag-sixers-news","tag-sixers-training-camp"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117288386133548601","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837650","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=837650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/837651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}