CAMDEN, N.J. — If you’ve followed the Sixers since Josh Harris’ group bought them in 2011, you might have come to view the Wells Fargo Center as the world’s biggest emergency room. Everybody was hurt all the time.
That was supposed to change.
Last summer, the franchise announced the hiring of Dr. Daniel Medina and anointed him its medical messiah. Medina is an injury-prevention specialist who had spent the previous 17 years with F.C. Barcelona, one of the world’s elite soccer teams. The Sixers gave him the newly created title of vice president of athlete care and they promised he would keep the players on the court.