Bad-luck Sixers?

The 76ers are suffering from a severe dose of the injury blues for the second straight preseason.

Ben Simmons (right foot Jones fracture), Jahlil Okafor (right knee soreness), Jerryd Bayless (left wrist soreness), Nik Stauskas (left hamstring strain), Nerlens Noel (left groin strain), and Cat Barber (right wrist, hand soreness) all missed Thursday's exhibition game against Washington with injuries. It was the second consecutive game that Okafor, Bayless, Simmons and Barber missed. Sources have said Simmons is expected to be sidelined around three months.

Meanwhile, Richaun Holmes suffered a left-ankle sprain when he stepped on official Monty McCutchen's foot during the jump ball to start the second half. Brown wanted to take the reserve center out of the game, but Holmes waved him off and stayed in the game.

Brandon Paul suffered a game-ending right oblique muscle contusion in the fourth quarter. T.J. McConnell returned after suffering a right knee contusion in the third quarter.

"To me you can't say anything other than [bad luck] with Ben Simmons coming down, stepping on somebody's foot," Brown said. "Even with Jerryd Bayless, you know has the wrist injury that came up out of nowhere."

Okafor's knee isn't healing as fast as the Sixers expected after surgery to repair a torn meniscus in his right knee in March.

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