Sixers rookie Johni Broome suffers torn meniscus in Blue Coats game
Broome has seen action in 11 NBA games this season. He scored 50 points in a Blue Coats game earlier this month.
Rookie big man Johni Broome suffered a torn meniscus in his right knee during the third quarter of the Delaware Blue Coats’ loss to the Maine Celtics on Saturday, the 76ers said Sunday afternoon.
Broome “will consult with medical professionals to determine the next steps of his treatment plan,” the team said in a news release.
“Obviously pretty serious injury,” Sixers coach Nick Nurse said Sunday during his pregame news conference in Minneapolis. “I don’t think they’re 100% ready on the next steps quite yet, but he’s going to be out a considerable amount of time. Probably for the remainder of the season, I would think.”
Broome, the Sixers’ second-round pick in last summer’s draft, had appeared in 11 NBA games and averaged 0.9 points and 1.5 rebounds in five minutes. He had gotten more experience in the G League, where he scored a team-high 27 points in 23 minutes Saturday before the injury. He had a 50-point, 17-rebound game for the Blue Coats last month.
A 6-foot-10, 235-pound frontcourt player, Broome was an All-American last season at Auburn and the winner of the Karl Malone Award given to men’s college basketball’s best power forward.