Jared McCain, the 76ers’ sixteenth total decide on this 12 months’s draft, was taken to the hospital after he landed arduous on his again whereas attempting to go up for a rebound in a Wednesday night time preseason recreation.
The scary second occurred within the closing minutes of the sport in opposition to the Nets when McCain collided with a Brooklyn defender and fell backward, seemingly hitting his head and falling aggressively on his bottom.
Officers shortly realized what had occurred and paused the sport in order that Philadelphia trainers may study McCain, who was down on the ground in ache for a number of minutes at Wells Fargo Middle.
McCain finally obtained on his ft and was ushered off the court docket.
He went to a neighborhood hospital within the Dallas space to be checked for a concussion.
“It was tough,” 76ers coach Nick Nurse instructed reporters. “He’s going to the hospital to get checked out. Clearly, he was having bother respiratory there, possibly obtained the wind knocked out of him, undecided what was happening there, however by no means fairly seen one like that earlier than, so let’s hope he’s OK and see what the report is from the hospital.”
“He’s high quality,” Kelly Oubre Jr mentioned, per Sixerswire. “It was very scary. He caught himself fortunately. He didn’t fall flat on his again. He’s gonna really feel it tomorrow. That’s kinda what we had been telling him. He’s simply gotta kinda take it straightforward and ensure he’s 100% for opening night time.”
McCain has been having a powerful coaching camp and has earned reward from members of the group, together with Sixers celebrity Joel Embiid.
“In all probability our greatest participant has been Jared McCain, which is fairly good,” Embiid mentioned earlier this month. “He competes. He’s robust, competes,[is] a shot-maker. He has been capturing the ball extraordinarily nicely; nice vitality.”
McCain had 9 factors and 7 rebounds within the 23 minutes earlier than the harm.
