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T.J. McConnell mentoring Sixers' summer league players

SALT LAKE CITY – T.J. McConnell is all in.

The 76ers reserve point guard could have remained home and worked out at the team’s practice facility in Camden. That’s what Ben Simmons and Joel Embiid are doing while the Sixers participate in the Utah Jazz Summer League.

But McConnell traveled with the summer here to serve as an unofficial mentor.

“I kind of know how it felt like for me and other guys being your first summer league,” he said. “I just want to be here if they have any questions for me. I’m just trying to be here for support for them and any questions they have.