Joel Embiid’s voluntary absence from the game cost the Philadelphia 76ers a lot. Dennis Schröder is also having the best start to the season of his NBA career. All update news.
Punishment for Philadelphia
The Philadelphia 76ers were fined $100,000 by the NBA. The reason for this is the contradictions in the statements about the health of Joel Embiid. A league investigation previously found the Sixers did not violate player participation policies in Embiid’s missed games. However, public comments from 76ers boss Daryl Morey and coach Nick Nurse are said to inaccurately reflect health problems with his knee.
Embiid caused a stir before the start of the season when he declared that he did not want to play back-to-backs and voluntarily skipped the first three games of the season. The 30-year-old wants to make sure he gets into the playoffs the way he deserves. This brought him a lot of criticism, including TV expert Charles Barkley.
Strong start to the season from Schröder
Dennis Schröder is currently enjoying the best start to the season of his NBA career with the Brooklyn Nets. In the first five games of the season, Braunschweiger has 24.6 points and 8.2 assists. Both were absolute career bests for the DBB captain, who is his team’s second-leading scorer behind Cam Thomas.
One reason for his explosion in scoring is his three-pointers. So far, Schröder has hit it absolutely fantastic with a rate of 55.3 percent. The 30-year-old has played a big role in the Nets’ solid start to the season, who have now won two of five games. The offense is particularly pleasing; thanks to Schröder and Thomas, Brooklyn has the sixth best offense in the NBA after five game days.
Barnes is gone
The Toronto Raptors will be without Scottie Barnes for an extended period of time. The 21-year-old suffered a broken right eye in the loss to the Denver Nuggets and will be out for less than three weeks. Barnes suffered the injury in a duel with Nikola Jokic.
“I feel sorry for Scottie,” said Raptors coach Darko Rajakovic: “He put in a lot of work, just started to find his rhythm and played very well. It’s hard to play without him.”
The Raptors got off to a bad start to the season with four losses in their first five games. The injury to their franchise player is more than inconvenient.
First point in the NBA for Bronny
Bronny James has reached the next milestone in his young career. The 20-year-old scored his first NBA point in the fourth quarter against the Cleveland Cavaliers. His father, LeBron, who scored 26 points in the 110-134 loss, watched Bronny’s first basket from the bench.
“Seeing him score his first NBA goal in the arena where he grew up was a unique moment,” said a proud LeBron after the game. Like his father, Bronny was born in Cleveland, so he was celebrated frenetically after his first points.
Bronny can continue to increase his points account in the NBA until November 6, after which the guard will go to the G-League. He should continue to improve there.
Gay ended his career
Rudy Gay ended his NBA career after 17 seasons. This was announced by the 38-year-old man in a long article on the website “The Players Tribune”. It’s time to hang up your sneakers. Thank you for everything,” wrote the forward on social media.
Gay entered the league as the eighth pick in 2006 and became a cornerstone of the Memphis Grizzlies around Marc Gasol and Mike Conley for years in the early 2010s. With 8,562 points, he is the fifth best scorer in franchise history.
Besides the Grizzlies, he also played for the Raptors, Kings, Spurs and Jazz. He also played his last NBA game for Utah in March 2023. He originally signed a one-year contract with the Golden State Warriors this summer, but was released before the start of the season.
Sources: SPOX, NBA.com, Sport1, ESPN
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