HOUSTON –The 76ers see it as nothing more than”poor luck.”
That’s how Brett Brown on Monday described having top draft picks miss significant amounts of time during their rookie seasons because of injuries. The team announced Sunday that Markelle Fultz, the first overall pick in this year’s draft, is out indefinitely with scapular muscle imbalance and soreness in his right shoulder.
Ben Simmons, the 2016 first overall pick, missed his entire rookie season after breaking his right foot on the final day of training camp. Jahlil Okafor, the third pick in 2015, suffered a season-ending knee injury in February of his rookie campaign.