NOVEMBER 3: Harris has tested positive for COVID-19, according to Keith Pompey of The Philadelphia Inquirer (Twitter link).
As Wojnarowski notes (via Twitter), in order to return to the court, a player who tests positive has to either wait 10 days after his initial positive test (or the onset of symptoms) or register two consecutive negative PCR tests 24 hours apart. He also has to pass cardiac tests before being cleared.
NOVEMBER 1: Sixers high-scoring forward Tobias Harris is out for their game against Portland on Monday due to the league’s health and safety protocols, Tim Bontemps of ESPN tweets.
A timetable for Harris’ return should be established in the next 12-24 hours, Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN tweets. Shams Charania of The Athletic adds (via Twitter) that Harris will likely miss a few games.
The Sixers have already produced plenty of drama early this season due to the ongoing Ben Simmons saga. Simmons has yet to play this season and Joel Embiid is resting a sore knee. Embiid had an MRI on Sunday which revealed no major concerns, per Ramona Shelburne of ESPN (Twitter link), and is expected to return to action on Wednesday.
Harris is averaging 19.8 PPG, 9.0 RPG and 4.2 APG through six games this season. Furkan Korkmaz will start in his place.
Harris is the second prominent player placed under the league’s health and safety protocols on Monday. Cleveland’s Kevin Love is expected to miss several games for that reason.
So now it’s not Covid?
My Sixers are going to struggle. No Ben or Tobias. Embiid still isn’t 100%.
Considering we are playing Portland I’d play Thybulle and Paul Reed some good minutes
They looked just fine without any of their stars against the Blazers
So now it’s Tobias. Then it will be Embiid. Then who knows what a season brings. This is why Ben should of been moved during draft. Morey is failing Sixers. And will take them down. Like he did Rockets. By eating Harden shorts. It’s not going to get better……
Lillard playing at Philadelphia tonite shows him that the 76ers are not his route to a championship. Embiid’s health is always a crapshoot, and the rest of the team is nothing to think they’re a piece away.
And then you got Doc Rivers coaching them.
I don’t think you’ll see him requesting a trade to No. Philly.
As we saw last night even the worst version of PHI is just plainly better than POR, with POR the R1WC exit is the max achievement he will ever get…
BTW why would anyone want Dame?
So far this season he has been truly terrible, the worst star in the league by a country mile… the next terrible star, but a lil’ bit better has been Beal, go figure!
Sixers are a wastebasket fire… not big-time enough to be a dumpster
Yeah, they are… POR is just worst!
PHI are awful without Ben & Dame has been horrible for POR!
5-2 without Ben is awful?
Philly is 5-2 without Ben, you have no idea what you’re talking about
and yet, scoreboard
Nice showing by PHI last night. That’s likely an L if POR isn’t on a back-to-back, but solid effort overall. Something is off with the chemistry on that Blazers team. Dame’s lingering injury certainly isn’t helping.