As a player that was a productive scorer and knockdown shooter in college but has struggled to consistently find his footing early on in his career in the league, Nik Stauskas could learn a thing or two from new Sixers shooting guard J.J...
Nik Stauskas is in his second season in Philadelphia and in 2016-2017 he has improved statistically with better Field Goal Percentage (38.5 to 41.1), Three Point Shooting (32.6% to 38.2%), and Points Per Game (8.5 to 9.3). Stauskas was drafted 8th overall in the 2014 NBA Draft and so far has not lived up to the expectations placed on him after he was the Big Ten Player of The Year at the Universi
Sixers forward Robert Covington was diagnosed with a right MCL sprain with a bone bruise in his knee and is expected to miss two weeks.
The timing of the injury is tough for a team already short on talent, and now Covington will not be ready to start the season, which begins on Wednesday in Boston.
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The Sixers got some bad news today as one of their top off season accusations; Nik Stauskas has been diagnosed with a right tibia stress reaction, and he miss at least two weeks.
Will this season finally be the one where Sixers fans can expect to see more wins on the court?
"I don't think so," Brown admitted to me on the Sports Bash.
"I think when you look at what a lot critics say, we have a very young team, we have the youngest team in the history of the game, we have a younger team than we had last year...