The Sixers have added Darius Johnson-Odom to their roster, signing the D-League guard to a 10-day contract, a league source confirmed. To make room for him, the Sixers waived Lorenzo Brown.

The signing was first reported by Yahoo! Sports’ Adrian Wojnarowski.

Johnson-Odom was one of four players brought in by the Sixers for a workout Tuesday at PCOM, in front of Sixers coach Brett Brown and Sixers general manager Sam Hinkie. Wednesday, Brown hinted that a roster move could be imminent, meaning he and Hinkie liked what they saw out of Johnson-Odom.

The 24-year-old Johnson-Odom is averaging 22.0 points and 6.1 assists per game, while shooting 45.3 percent overall in 27 appearances for Springfield. The 6-2, 201-pound guard, who played at Marquette, was the 55^th overall pick in the 2012 NBA draft.

The Sixers are the second team for which Johnson-Odom will have played. He failed to score in four appearances for the Los Angeles Lakers last season, playing an average of 1.5 minutes per game. 

Lorenzo Brown had not played since Feb. 21 with a sore right foot. He appeared in 26 games, averaging 2.5 points and 1.6 assists.

The 76ers have assigned Arnett Moultrie and Lorenzo Brown to the D-League’s Delaware 87ers.

Moultrie has not played this season, as he continues rehab on his surgically repaired right ankle. The second-year forward “will receive additional on-court time at game speed with the Sevens as a step in his return to the Sixers,” the team said in a statement Tuesday night.

Monday in New York, Moultrie seemed to indicate that he had no idea why he had yet to debut this season for the Sixers.

“It’s not my ankle. It’s not my conditioning,” Moultrie said. “But at this point, I really don’t care. I’m just sick of all the excuses. If it ain’t one thing, it’s another thing.

“It’s just (baloney).”

As for Brown, this makes his sixth assignment to the D-League. He’s averaging 19.2 points, 6.9 assists and 5.3 rebounds per game in 11 appearances for the Sevens. He’s only appeared in 19 games for the Sixers, and after being recalled Monday, did not play in the Sixers’ loss at Brooklyn.

(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.

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Tony Wroten said he “ain’t rushing” back from the sprained right ankle that caused him to miss Monday’s game.

That means, when Michael Carter-Williams is off the floor, Evan Turner will be handling point guard responsibilities for the 76ers for the foreseeable future.

In his first crack at playing the point, things didn’t go well for Turner (pictured), in Monday’s 107-99 loss at Washington. Turner played 28 minutes against the Wizards, during which he shot 3-for-10 and finished with 11 points, two turnovers and one assist.

Wroten, who sprained his ankle Saturday at Chicago, is in an ankle boot. He didn’t offer a grade on his ankle sprain, but said it’s a low sprain, and not a high sprain. Since Wroten did not offer a timetable for his return, Turner represents the Sixers’ next-best option to play on the ball, whenever Carter-Williams has to check out of the game.

“I actually get the ball. That’s cool,” said Turner, the fourth-year swingman. “That’s what you want. Get me the rock, you feel me?”

Sixers coach Brett Brown said Turner does not always get into the flow of the offense when he doesn’t feel as though he’s actively involved at that end of the floor. Brown, for that reason, did not hesitate to insert Turner at the one-guard spot.

“I’m going to give Evan the ball,” Brown said. “We’re going to try him a little bit at some point, try that a little bit. We have Lorenzo (Brown), who’s a good backup legitimate point guard. He, too, I expect, will see minutes. And Elliot (Williams) had shown over the course of his collegiate career that he could be a ball-carrier. At times, when Evan isn’t as involved offensively as I wish he were, it’s a good vehicle just to give him the ball. He’s a big capable player and we’ll convert him into what we did with (San Antonio guard Manu) Ginobili at my old job.”

(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.

(AP)

At the start of the week, the 76ers bench featured never-healthy veteran Kwame Brown and one of the league’s worst returns from its collective of reserves.

Friday night, a funny thing happened: The Sixers actually got something from its second-stringers.

The Sixers’ bench pulled its weight in a 115-107 overtime victory over Milwaukee. The reserves accounted for 35 points on 14-for-25 shooting, to go with 18 rebounds and 12 assists. The group was led by undrafted wing Hollis Thompson, who shot 7-for-9 from the floor for 16 points in 21 minutes.

Thompson turned in two of the game’s finer plays: a second-quarter alley-oop dunk, off a pass from Tony Wroten, on which Thompson’s chin was at rim-level, and a 3-pointer in overtime that pushed the game out of the Bucks’ reach.

The contributions of the Sixers’ bench players were a far cry from what they’ve averaged coming into their game against Milwaukee. The Sixers’ second unit had been posting fewer than 16 points per game, the fifth-worst average in the league.

“Hollis had a big night,” said Evan Turner, who scored eight of the Sixers’ 13 points in overtime.

Other players chipping in off the bench were: Lavoy Allen (nine points, eight rebounds, 34 minutes), Elliot Williams (six points, 14 minutes) and Tony Wroten (six assists, 11 minutes).

Williams and Lorenzo Brown were signed Wednesday to replace Darius Morris and Kwame Brown, who were waived. Those two guards already appear to be upgrades, as Williams was a player without a contract anywhere and Brown was playing for Springfield (Mass.) in the D-League.