PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania -- The NBA summer league kicks off Monday in Utah, and the Sixers have announced their roster for the upcoming minicamp. They’re participating in the Las Vegas summer league starting Friday against the Boston Celtics on ESPN at the Thomas & Mack Center.
The minicamp runs through Wednesday.
Highlighting the camp attendees are Furkan Korkmaz and Demetrius Jackson, the only two players out of the group with any NBA experience with the Sixers, along with 2018 draft acquisitions Zhaire Smith and Landry Shamet (second-round choice Shake Milton is scheduled to go to the minicamp, but will not be playing in summer league due to injury).
Here are some brief profiles on the players the Sixers will have in camp this week
Phillip Carr, F, Morgan State, 6-9/205
Carr posted 13 double-doubles for Morgan State last season and was named a 2018 Preseason Player of the Year. He was named MEAC Defensive Player of the Year as a junior for the Bears.
17-18 Season (Morgan State):
31 G | 32.8 MPG | 13.7 PPG (43.2 FG%) | 11 3FGM (26.8 3FG%) | 84.6 FT% | 9.3 RPG | 1.3 APG | 21 BLK
Quick Facts:
• Having reached the free throw line over 100 times in each of his three seasons at Morgan State, Carr put up particularly reliable foul shooting numbers each of his final two years in school. He hit a conference-high 82.9 percent from the line in 2016-2017. Carr actually did better from the stripe in 2017-2018, sinking 84.6 percent of his free throws, even though he finished second in the rankings.
• Carr was tabbed the MEAC Defensive Player of the Year in 2017. At the end of that season, he had generated the seventh-lowest individual defensive rating in the conference (99.5).
• Prior to Morgan State, Carr gained playing experience at Williston State, where he spent one season. The previous year, he was a member of the men’s basketball team at Mohawk Valley Community College.
Summer League Experience: None
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