(Courtesy: Memphis)

The Sixers signed 21-year-old swingman Adonis Thomas to a 10-day contract, the team announced.

The contract of James Nunnally, who had exhausted his share of 10-day deals, had expired Saturday night, leaving the Sixers’ roster with a vacancy.

The 6-7, 240-pounder spent most of his season with the D-League’s Springfield Armor. Sandwiched between D-League stints was a four-game stint Thomas played in Orlando on a pair of 10-day deals, the last of which expired March 14. While with the Magic, Thomas averaged 1.8 points, 0.8 rebounds and 0.5 assists.

Thomas went undrafted last summer out of Memphis, where he played two seasons.

Friday’s game at Memphis should feel like a homecoming for Thomas, who was born there. Thomas is the Sixers’ fourth player with Memphis roots. Thaddeus Young, Elliot Williams and Arnett Moultrie all went to high school in the Tennessee town.

Thomas will be the eighth rookie and the 23^rd player overall to have appeared in uniform this season for the Sixers, and the 28^th to occupy a spot on their 15-man roster.

(AP)

The 76ers’ Arnett Moultrie was suspended five games without pay by the NBA for violating terms of the league’s and the players association’s anti-drug program.

The league announced Moultrie’s ban Monday, when the second-year forward was said to have begun serving his salary-free suspension with the Sixers’ game at Atlanta. In addition, Moultrie is also ineligible for the Delaware 87ers’ games during his suspension. He was assigned to the Sixers’ D-League affiliate March 15.

The 6-10, 245-pound Moultrie would not be eligible to return for the Sixers until April 11, for the final four games of the regular season.

The suspension of Moultrie, a 2012 first-round draft pick, should be a cause of concern for the Sixers. They are on the hook for the 23-year-old’s $1.14 million contract for the 2014-15 season, picking up his team option during training camp. 

Sixers general manager Sam Hinkie has shown no reluctance in his willingness to eat salaries, however. He waived center Kwame Brown, owed $3 million, in November. And he did the same in March with guard Eric Maynor, who is set to make $2.1 million next season.

Moultrie has appeared in only 12 games this season for the Sixers, for whom he’s averaging three points and nearly three rebounds. Between two tours in the D-League, he’s averaged 10.5 points, 4.5 rebounds and 28.3 minutes in eight appearances with the Sevens. 

Moultrie was withheld from practice until Dec. 31, while recovering from preseason left ankle surgery.

(NBA.com)

The 76ers have sentto the Delaware 87ers, making this his fourth assignment to the D-League club.

Lorenzo Brown

Brown, a reserve point guards, has played in only four of the Sixers’ last 18 games. He’s averaging 3.1 points, 1.9 assists and 10.1 minutes in 18 appearances with the Sixers.

In Delaware, Brown is seeing the bulk of his playing time. The 6-5 guard is averaging 19 points and more than seven assists and five rebounds in seven appearances for the 87ers, for whom he’s likely to play this morning. The Sevens host Austin at 11:30 a.m. in Newark, Del.

(US Presswire)

The last 10 days have been eventful ones for Dewayne Dedmon.

He made his first NBA basket. He played meaningful minutes at this level for the first time in his career. And he even got his first trip to New York out of it.

“I’m enjoying it,” the 24-year-old said Wednesday. “I’m getting to play the Knicks. It’s definitely a good feeling.”

What’s an even-better feeling? Knowing you’re sticking around for another 10 days.

Thursday, the 76ers didn’t practice. So the only eventful news coming out of their camp was that they had signed Dedmon to a second 10-day contract, according to a league source.

This latest deal expires Feb. 1, by which date the Sixers will have to determine whether to cut ties with Dedmon, their rookie center, or sign him to a guaranteed contract through the remainder of the season. The Sixers first inked Dedmon Jan. 14, from the D-League’s Santa Cruz Warriors.

Dedmon averaged 3.6 points, 5.8 rebounds and 1.0 block in 14.8 minutes per game for the Sixers, for whom he’s played five games. He had gotten a three-game stint earlier this season with Golden State, for which he played only six minutes a span of nine games.

The Sixers (14-28) like Dedmon’s intensity and rim protection on defense, and his rebounding at both ends of the floor. On multiple occasions in the last week and a half, Sixers coach Brett Brown has lauded the play of Dedmon, the USC product whose first foray into organized basketball was at the age of 18.

“It’s always good to hear a coach talk positively about you,” Dedmon said. “I’ve got to keep doing what I’ve been doing.”

He has another six games and 10 days to do just that.

(AP)

The 76ers have assigned guard Lorenzo Brown to the Delaware 87ers, of the NBA D-League, the team announced Thursday.

It's Brown's second D-League assignment this season. He also was sent to the Sevens Dec. 26, and was recalled to the Sixers Monday.

Brown averages 3.2 points and 1.9 assists per game.

(Associated Press)

The 76ers' D-League affiliate, the Delaware 87ers, acquired the rights to 16 players Thursday via the D-League Expansion Draft, including one with local ties.

Temple product Ramone Moore is among the players picked up by the 87ers, who will begin their first season in the NBA's D-League this season.

Every D-League team was able to protect the rights to a dozen players and, from the unprotected players, the Sevens were allowed to pluck players. However, the Sevens were limited to two players per D-League team. And of the 16 taken by the Sevens, seven have played in the NBA.

 
Here are all 16 players acquired by the Sevens:

Player                      Team                        HT        WT      DOB              SCHOOL

Josh Akognon           Canton Charge         5'11     185      2/10/86        Cal State Fullerton

Chris Cooper            Bakersfield Jam        6'10     245      1/17/90        Old Dominion

Jerome Dyson           Tulsa 66ers              6'3       180      5/1/87          Connecticut

Kyle Fogg                  RGV Vipers               6'3       188      1/27/90        Arizona

Jeremy Green           Erie BayHawks         6'4       195      3/2/90          Stanford

Frank Hassell           Canton Charge         6'8       235      10/9/88        Old Dominion

Darington Hobson    Santa Cruz                6'7       210      9/29/87        New Mexico

Leo Lyons                 Santa Cruz                6'9       235      5/25/87        Missouri

Ramone Moore        Springfield Armor     6'4       190      5/27/89        Temple

Hamady N’Diaye      Maine Red Claws     7'0       240      1/12/87        Rutgers

Reeves Nelson         L.A. D-Fenders          6'8       235      9/18/91        UCLA

Jerome Randle         Maine Red Claws     5'9       170      5/21/87        California

Ish Smith                  L.A. D-Fenders          6'0       175      7/5/88          Wake Forest

Willie Warren           RGV Vipers               6'4       200      10/22/89      Oklahoma

Tyler Wilkerson        Austin Toros             6'8       240      7/25/88        Marshall

Sean Williams          Texas Legends         6'10     235      9/13/86        Boston College