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Sixers' Markelle Fultz gets desired jersey for being a 'great guy'

BOSTON – Often times in professional team sports, you hear of a free-agent or rookie paying money to get a desired jersey number from a teammate that possesses it.

That’s wasn’t the case with the 76ers’ Markelle Fultz and Timothe Luwawu-Cabarrot.

Fultz didn’t have to pay anything to get his coveted jersey number.

Fultz wore jersey No. 20 at DeMatha Catholic High School and at Washington. However, that was Luwawu-Cabarrot’s number for the Sixers.

So the combo guard had to wear No. 7 at the Utah Jazz and NBA summer leagues in July. These days, he’s rocking No.