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Dario Saric loves playing for his homeland. The Sixers will have to live with the rocky starts it causes him | Mike Sielski

Dario Saric with the Croatian national team in 2017.

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For 50 minutes after the 76ers had finished practice Friday afternoon, Dario Saric remained on the floor at the team's Camden practice facility, the last player there. He worked his way around the 3-point arc at a basket at the far end of the gym, from the left corner to the left wing to the top of the key and so on, taking shot after shot. Chris Babcock, the Sixers' director of player development, rebounded every make and miss and kept snapping the ball back to Saric with crisp chest-passes.