Sixers share Thunder's foot-fracture woes
The Oklahoma City Thunder opens the regular season against the Philadelphia 76ers on Oct. 26. Each team will likely enter the game short a promising young player.
Cameron Payne suffered an acute fracture of the fifth metatarsal in his right foot on Tuesday. On Friday, the Sixers revealed that Ben Simmons, the No. 1 pick in this summer's draft, fractured the same bone in his right foot in a training camp scrimmage.
The circumstances look eerily similar to Payne's injury. The Sixers said Simmons rolled his ankle and X-rays and an MRI revealed the fracture.