The Philadelphia 76ers are a little shorthanded in the preseason as they were able to knock off the Cleveland Cavaliers on Monday 113-97 on the road despite missing Joel Embiid and Montrezl Harrell.
Embiid is healthy and it was just a scratch for him.
Harrell? Not so much as he is dealing with an intercostal strain which is a rib injury.
Harrell missed Monday’s game with the injury and he revealed he suffered the injury in Saturday’s Blue X White scrimmage in Delaware when he caught Danuel House Jr. from a fall.
Harrell told The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Keith Pompey:
“D-House just made a play and kind of lost the ball, and you know, hustling out of bounds for a loose ball,” Harrell said. “When he went to jump over the bench, he wasn’t going to make it. So I just kind of grabbed him out of the air so he wouldn’t slip over the bench so he could fall on me.”
It is admirable of Harrell to catch House Jr. and be a good teammate, but it came at the cost of his own health. He will play a big part in whatever Philadelphia does in the 2022-23 season and they need the veteran addition to be out there. One has to hope that he can recover quickly and get back on the floor.
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Story originally appeared on Sixers Wire
