JaVale McGee hopes to stay with Sixers
New Philadelphia 76ers center JaVale McGee has averaged 8.5 points, 5.6 rebounds and 1.8 blocks per game over his NBA career, though he’s received little playing time this season and hasn’t contributed much. But that was on the Denver Nuggets. There’s room for him to step up at least a little on the very-rebuilding Sixers, if given a shot. Here’s the Philadelphia Inquirer reporting:
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Center JaVale McGee wants to remain with the 76ers for the rest of the season and beyond.
The Sixers, at least for the time being, are committed to giving him every opportunity to do just that.
“We are coming into this whole thing with an open mind,” coach Brett Brown said Sunday after the team’s morning shootaround at the Amway Center. “He is around a bunch of genuine people, coaches that care. That will give him every chance to keep moving and to be as good as he can be.
“And if it doesn’t work, it doesn’t work. But it’s not going to be on us.”
