Posted: Thursday, September 25, 2008, 5:13 PM | 10 comments |
 

Nineteen is the magic number
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The 76ers officially announced their Training Camp roster. The final tally? Nineteen players will be at Penn St. from Sept. 30-Oct. 5 ... and possibly beyond. The two surprises here are Andre Emmett and Justin Reed. The full roster, including all 19 players, is listed below. Also, I posted at length earlier this afternoon about today's luncheon with coach Maurice Cheeks. (Can't let that work go overlooked!)

Here is the official release from the Sixers, written not by me, but by the Sixers. Roster below.

Philadelphia, Pa. – September 25, 2008 – Philadelphia 76ers President and General Manager Ed Stefanski announced today that the team has signed five free agents, rounding out the roster for training camp, which runs from Sept. 30 through Oct. 5 at Penn State University. With today’s additions of Andre Emmett, Justin Reed, Jared Reiner, Maureece Rice and Antywane Robinson, the Sixers roster now stands at 19.
 
Emmett (6-4, 216) was originally selected with the 35th overall pick in the 2004 NBA Draft by Seattle (now Oklahoma City). He appeared in eight games for the Memphis Grizzlies during the 2004-05 season. Most recently, Emmett averaged a league-high 23.9 points per game for Belgacom Liege Basket of the Belgian League. Emmett played four seasons for Texas Tech, with the final three coming under the tutelage of Bobby Knight. He finished his career as the Red Raiders all-time leader in scoring with 2,256 points.
 
Reed (6-8, 238) was selected by Boston with the 40th overall pick in the 2004 NBA Draft. In three seasons with the Celtics and Minnesota Timberwolves, Reed has appeared in 136 games with nine starts, averaging 3.5 points (40.4% FGs, 75.2% FTs) and 1.4 rebounds in 10.6 minutes per game. Last season, Reed appeared in three preseason games for the Houston Rockets before joining the Austin Toros of the D-League. In a combined 30 games for the Toros and Bakersfield Jam, he averaged 17.4 points, 6.9 rebounds and 2.4 assists. Reed spent his collegiate career at the University of Mississippi, becoming the first player in school history to earn All-SEC honors in all four seasons.
 
Reiner (6-11, 245) attended the University of Iowa and was not selected in the 2004 NBA Draft but signed as a rookie free-agent with the Chicago Bulls for the 2004-05 season. In two seasons with the Bulls and Milwaukee Bucks, Reiner has played a total of 46 games with four starts, averaging 1.2 points and 2.4 rebounds in 8.2 minutes per game. This past summer, Reiner participated in the Sixers entry in the NBA Summer League in Las Vegas, averaging 1.4 points and 2.2 rebounds. Last season, Reiner played abroad in both Spain and Germany.
 
Rice (6-1, 224) is best known for his career at Strawberry Hill High School, during which he tallied 2,681 points, surpassing Wilt Chamberlain’s Philadelphia school record of 2,206 points. Rice went on to attend The George Washington University, where he was named Atlantic-10 Sixth Man of the Year as a sophomore and A-10 All-Conference Third Team as a junior. He was not selected in the NBA Draft this past June.
 
Robinson (6-8, 220) played all four seasons at Temple University, earning Atlantic-10 All-Conference Second Team honors his senior season. For his career, Robinson had 85 steals to 54 turnovers in 116 games played. He has yet to appear in an NBA game after going undrafted in 2006, but played preseason games for the Atlanta Hawks in 2007. After being waived by the Hawks, Robinson joined the Sioux Falls Sky Force of the D-League before playing overseas for Elan Bearnais Pau-Orthez of the French League.
PHILADELPHIA 76ERS 2008 TRAINING CAMP ROSTER
 
No.     Name                          Pos. Ht.     Wt.    DOB           From
1          Samuel Dalembert      C         6-11     250      5/10/81       Seton Hall                                                               
4          Kareem Rush              G-F      6-6       215      10/30/80     Missouri                                 
5          Maureece Rice            G         6-1       224      3/14/84       George Washington             
7          Andre Miller               G         6-2       200      3/19/76       Utah                                        
8          Donyell Marshall       F          6-9       245      5/18/73       Connecticut                           
9          Andre Iguodala          G-F      6-6       207      1/28/84       Arizona                                   
11        Antywane Robinson F          6-8       220      7/12/84       Temple                                    
12        Royal Ivey                   G         6-4       215      12/20/81     Texas                                       
14        Jason Smith                 F-C      7-0       240      3/2/86         Colorado State                       
16        Marreese Speights     F-C      6-10     245      8/4/87         Florida                                     
20        Andre Emmett             G         6-4       216      8/27/82       Texas Tech                             
21        Thaddeus Young       F          6-8       220      6/21/88       Georgia Tech                         
23        Louis Williams            G         6-1       175      10/27/86     South Gwinnett HS (GA)
30        Reggie Evans              F          6-8       245      5/18/80       Iowa                                        
33        Willie Green                G         6-3       201      7/28/81       Detroit Mercy                        
40        Jared Reiner                C         6-11     245      4/8/82         Iowa                                        
41        Justin Reed                 F          6-8       238      1/16/82       Mississippi                            
42        Elton Brand                 F          6-9       254      3/11/79       Duke                                        
50       Theo Ratliff                 C         6-10    235     4/17/73      Wyoming
 
-- Kate
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 10:23 AM, 09/26/2008
    Kate, lot of bigs on the roster (not a bad thing) with 5 who can play center. I would assume this means that Smith and Reiner are the ones likely left off. Can't imagine them keeping more than three. I thought Smith was serviceable last year off the bench, but with the roster it may be tough for him to crack this roster. Your thoughts?
    — denversixerfan
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 11:44 AM, 09/26/2008
    denversixerfan: as you probably know, smith is out after surgery-most likely for the year. kate: the 5 signees really are probably just hoping to showcase for other nba/international teams but none of them are likely to be diamonds. how hard do they really push the core team during training camp? will the media be allowed some real access for scrimaging so as to provide assessments to those of us not able to observe? as a former player, are there certain things you look for at practice/games that can take the analysis deeper once the season starts?
    — 127sixer59
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 2:14 PM, 09/26/2008
    denversixerfan ... What 127 said, Smith is already out for the season. Reiner probably won't make the team. Do you live in downtown Denver? 127sixer59 ... I think at training camp the media will be allowed to watch maybe the last 15-30 minutes of practice. You're dead on about the five signees. I talked with Dawan Robinson (local kid who played on Sixers Vegas team this summer) and he attended the Clippers camp a few years ago. He played well there. That increased his stock overseas. I have to believe that's what these five guys will be doing. I think the one universal thing -- guy's basketball, women's basketball -- that I like to observe, and that can be easily spotted by people who have played a good deal, is which players do the little things all the time. Rotating over on helpside, denying passes, making that extra pass on offense. I imagine you played?
    — Kfagan
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 3:55 PM, 09/26/2008
    kate: hope you and your colleagues have the opportunity to watch those last 15-30 min of practice. totally agree with watching for the aspects that don't nec show up in the stat sheet but can significantly impact whether a player is contributing to winning games. may be hard in your regular columns but hope you are comfortable in presenting your views on these aspects in the blog. that's why listening to hubie brown is such a great learning experience: simply an insightful announcer. having been a player (or perhaps you're still playing?), do you formulate your questions any differently from your experience? yup, i played but only at the d-3 level where they had to let you on the team :) must've been fun for you to play in dublin. were the fans pretty knowledgeble/appreciative?
    — 127sixer59
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 3:55 PM, 09/26/2008
    kate: hope you and your colleagues have the opportunity to watch those last 15-30 min of practice. totally agree with watching for the aspects that don't nec show up in the stat sheet but can significantly impact whether a player is contributing to winning games. may be hard in your regular columns but hope you are comfortable in presenting your views on these aspects in the blog. that's why listening to hubie brown is such a great learning experience: simply an insightful announcer. having been a player (or perhaps you're still playing?), do you formulate your questions any differently from your experience? yup, i played but only at the d-3 level where they had to let you on the team :) must've been fun for you to play in dublin. were the fans pretty knowledgeble/appreciative?
    — 127sixer59
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 10:26 AM, 09/27/2008
    127sixer59 ... Dublin was fun, because Ireland is a great country, but I wouldn't say basketball was a sport on the radar. It was more about Rugby, soccer, and hurling (a crazy sport). If you played at the D3 level, you probably pick up on those small things, too.
    — Kfagan
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 10:04 AM, 09/29/2008
    You're right, hurling is a totally crazy sport :)
    — K,M
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 12:56 PM, 09/29/2008
    kate: i'm sure you and your teammates were good ambassadors for bb and perhaps converted some into fans. will you be looking at film in addition to the games/practices? i wonder how much some media (esp nfl) really review it but perhaps studying tape is more for the analysts? the more insight ya have from whatever source, the more enjoyable viewing becomes. k,m: hurling is different but rugby is really wild. strange it never gained more popularity here other than club play.
    — 127sixer59
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 2:58 PM, 09/29/2008
    I hear you that rugby is a really tough sport...I know a few kids who played club level when i was at Drexel. Sort of like football without the pads or roughing penalties, and with the flow of futbol. What i meant about hurling is that its just a crazy concept for a sport(not that that's bad thing, just that its a crazy thing) I actually played an informal game when i was on vacation in Ireland almost ten years ago now. But anyway, I digress...
    — K,M
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 4:23 PM, 09/29/2008
    k,m: must've been cool playing in rugby in ireland. i played in an informal "club" a long time ago and it's tough! watched the all blacks in nz, which was awesome. i knew what you meant about hurling: like with many things, you wonder how they thought it up! so this has some sixer relevance: jasner posed a series of things he'd like to see at training camp and there are a number of comments (including one from me)-while there are many interesting issues, perhaps the biggest is whether we can combine the successful running game w/a semblance of a half-court offense w/o one detracting from the other.
    — 127sixer59


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John Mitchell is in his first year covering the 76ers for the Inquirer after joining the paper in November 2011. He covered the Washington Wizards for the Washington Times from 1998 to 2008. He's also worked at the Philadelphia Tribune, the Wilmington News Journal, Courier-Post, Trenton Times and Elmira Star-Gazette.

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