(NBA.com)

The 76ers have signed NBA D-League center Dewayne Dedmon to a 10-day deal, a league source said.

The 24-year-old Dedmon will be in Philadelphia and with the team at practice Tuesday at PCOM.

Dedmon (7-0, 255), an undrafted Southern Cal product, played four games with Golden State this season. He’s averaged 15.2 points, 13.5 rebounds and 2.33 blocks per game for the Santa Cruz Warriors, the Golden State Warriors’ NBA D-League affiliate.

Dedmon will immediately fill a void for the Sixers, who recently waived center Daniel Orton. They’re also awaiting the returns of forwards Lavoy Allen (calf) and Arnett Moultrie (ankle) from injuries, though neither is expected to be ready by the end of this week.

(Associated Press)

The 76ers have waived center Daniel Orton.

Orton, who signed with the team in preseason as a free agent, averaged 3.0 points, 2.8 rebounds and 11.4 minutes over 22 appearances.

The Sixers made the move in advance of Friday’s deadline, by which all NBA players with partially guaranteed contracts are made guaranteed for the remainder of the season. Though Orton’s salary is a nominal $884,000, and waiving the 23-year-old does not save the Sixers much, it was clear that they had seen all that they needed to out of the 6-10, 280-pound pivot.

Waiving Orton brings the Sixers’ roster to 11 available players, with three others out on the injured/inactive list.

One of those three is second-year forward Arnett Moultrie, who said following Monday’s home loss to Minnesota that he expects to dress for a game by next week. Moultrie, who has been out since undergoing ankle surgery in October, practiced for the first time Dec. 31, and continues to progress.

The Sixers (12-22) are in Cleveland Tuesday to play the Cavaliers.

(Portland's Meyers Leonard and the Sixers' Daniel Orton.)

The 76ers’ Daniel Orton has been suspended one game without pay for his involvement in a scrum in Saturday’s 139-105 loss to the Portland Trail Blazers.

Orton will sit out Monday’s game at Brooklyn.

The incident occurred with 7 minutes, 19 seconds left in the fourth quarter, when the Trail Blazers’ Meyers Leonard body-slammed Orton to the ground. Orton retaliated while both were in a heap, throwing an elbow that hit Leonard in the mouth. Both received Flagrant 2 fouls and were ejected from the game.

To view the play, click here.

(AP)

76ers coach Brett Brown said second-year forward Hollis Thompson could “be a keeper,” despite being the last man to make his team’s roster.

Thompson, 22, has been getting increasing opportunities to play, including 17 minutes Monday against Golden State and five minutes in the first half Wednesday against Washington. The 6-8, 206-pounder figures to be one of the first guys off the bench for however long center Daniel Orton is sidelined with right knee soreness.

“I think he has a real chance to be a keeper,” Brown said of Thompson. “His process is going to be slower. The time’s he’s come into the games, I think he’s been OK. His opportunity is in a comfortable place. … I think he’s an NBA player for a while. His worth ethic is high. I like him.”

Thompson, the last player to survive preseason cuts late last month, views these last few games as an opportunity to find footing with the Sixers.

“I do what the coaches tell me to do, and do it to the best of my abilities,” said Thompson, a Georgetown product. “Coach (Brown) has given me an opportunity to help the team, so when I go in, I try to rebound. …I definitely think that I have something to prove.”

The Sixers hosted Cleveland Friday in the front-end of a home-and-home series. They’ll visit the Cavaliers Saturday.