Well thankfully that does not seem to be nearly as bad as it looked.
The Sixers released their injury report for Friday’s game, a second home game in a row in which they’ll host the Cleveland Cavaliers. The big news on it is that Dominick Barlow is listed as questionable with a back contusion that caused him to leave the first game in the third quarter. He suffered it attempting a layup in transition and was swatted by Evan Mobley, hitting the deck hard in the process.
After the game, Nick Nurse said that they were likely to get him an MRI in the following days, but was reportedly feeling better at practice and didn’t end up getting one.
Of course, he wasn’t even wearing a grey jersey for the reserves, so if he does play tomorrow, it could likely be in a very limited capacity.
Otherwise, the Sixers appear to be in good shape with Joel Embiid and Paul George rounding out the report, both probable with left knee injury management. The two have been listed as probable for the past several games now, the only one they’ve missed in the last week being the front end of a back-to-back.
While they throttled the Sixers in the first contest, the Cleveland Cavaliers did not come away unscathed. Darius Garland, who’s been banged up all year, will be out for this one with a right toe sprain. It appeared to happen when he was trying to save this loose ball that had been poked away from him. Garland has already missed 16 games this year due to various ailments.
