<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/76ers-news-deanthony-melton-robert-covington-get-worrisome-injury-updates-ahead-of-nba-playoffs');   ga('set', 'title', '76ers’ De’Anthony Melton, Robert Covington get worrisome injury updates ahead of NBA playoffs');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/76ers-DeAnthony-Melton-Robert-Covington.jpeg"></figure><h1>76ers’ De’Anthony Melton, Robert Covington get worrisome injury updates ahead of NBA playoffs</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2024-04-14T15:05:05-07:00">April 14th, 3:05pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2024-04-14T15:05:05-07:00">April 14th, 3:05pm</time><address><a>Sam DiGiovanni</a>Sam DiGiovanni started at ClutchPoints as an associate editor in 2021 and became the site's Philadelphia 76ers beat reporter ahead of the 2022-23 season. He graduated from Marist College in May of 2022 and has written for TheKnicksWall.com and CenterFieldMarist.com in the past.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>PHILADELPHIA — After missing the Philadelphia 76ers’ final regular-season game, Joel Embiid should be ready to go on Wednesday when the Sixers host the Miami Heat in a play-in game. However, De’Anthony Melton and Robert Covington are unlikely to be available.</p><p>After the 76ers <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/76ers-vs-nets-instant-breakdown-regular-season-finale">concluded their regular season</a> with a win over the Brooklyn Nets, Nick Nurse said that Embiid was held out as a precautionary measure and said he should be ready to go against Miami. He also provided the latest injury updates on Melton and Covington, who have respectively dealt with brutal back and knee injuries over the last several months.</p><p>Melton is now dealing with the second reaggravation of a back injury that has forced him to miss all but five games since the New Year. He made his second return earlier this week, <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/76ers-news-deanthony-melton-sounds-off-return-from-back-injury-win-vs-pistons">playing 15 minutes and looking good</a>, but now could be sidelined again. Nurse said that he has “always had concern” with the problems Melton’s back has given him.</p><p>“It’s kind of the second time we’ve gone through holding him out, trying to treat him, getting him to a place where he thinks he can play, played a couple of games, then he went out again for a long stretch, we bring him back, he plays one game and he’s out again. I just think it’s very difficult,” Nurse said. “I think we’re in the same situation; they’re gonna continue to treat him, try to get him better. We’re hoping for a long run here, so there’s still always time as this goes to get him back and have him be a factor in this thing. But it is concerning.”</p><p>Nurse didn’t definitively say either way whether Melton could play on Wednesday but said that it would take “probably a bit of a journey” for him to alleviate this new issue and be ready to play after playing just 21 total minutes of basketball over two games since the start of March.</p><p>Covington is almost certainly not going to be available for the playoffs. While he has been able to get some work in <a href="https://x.com/PompeyOnSixers/status/1769425352676331944" rel="noopener">on the court</a>, it’s not enough to be available for games.</p><p>“Nope, I don’t think so,” Nurse said when asked if it’s possible for Covington to return soon. “This hasn’t made enough progress. We did get him on the court a couple of times last week and just hasn’t made enough progress to be able to move well enough without pain.”</p><p>The 76ers do have a good amount of depth on the wings with Nico Batum, Buddy Hield and Ricky Council IV coming off the bench. But not having Melton and Covington is a huge bummer.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

76ers’ De’Anthony Melton, Robert Covington get worrisome injury updates ahead of NBA playoffs

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/76ers-news-deanthony-melton-robert-covington-get-critical-injury-timeline-updates');   ga('set', 'title', '76ers’ De’Anthony Melton, Robert Covington get injury timeline updates');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/76ers-DeAnthony-Melton-Robert-Covington.jpeg"></figure><h1>76ers’ De’Anthony Melton, Robert Covington get injury timeline updates</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2024-03-06T15:41:32-08:00">March 6th, 3:41pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2024-03-06T15:41:32-08:00">March 6th, 3:41pm</time><address><a>Sam DiGiovanni</a>Sam DiGiovanni started at ClutchPoints as an associate editor in 2021 and became the site's Philadelphia 76ers beat reporter ahead of the 2022-23 season. He graduated from Marist College in May of 2022 and has written for TheKnicksWall.com and CenterFieldMarist.com in the past.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>The Philadelphia 76ers announced injury updates for De’Anthony Melton and Robert Covington as the team looks to regain full health before the playoffs.</p><p>Nick Nurse said ahead of the 76ers’ matchup with the Memphis Grizzlies that there is no update yet on Joel Embiid as he works back from a meniscus procedure. While an update on him <a href="https://x.com/BySamDiGiovanni/status/1754883623440834809?s=20" rel="noopener">should be announced soon</a>, the team did provide updated timelines for Covington and Melton, who are respectively working back from a bone bruise in his left knee and lumbar spine bone stress.</p><p>The Sixers said in their announcement that Covington is “progressing in his rehabilitation program with the goal of beginning on-court activities over the next 7-10 days. He remains out and will be re-evaluated in approximately one week.”</p><p>Covington has been out for two full months with his knee issues, missing 29 consecutive games. The 33-year-old forward has yet to play a game in the calendar month of 2024.</p><p>Melton, the team’s announcement said, has “begun an offloading period and will be re-evaluated in approximately two weeks.“</p><p>After missing 18 straight games, Melton suffered back spasms <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/76ers-news-deanthony-melton-crushing-injury-update-after-returning-3-games" rel="noopener">just three games into his return</a>. Back issues have limited the 25-year-old guard at various this season, none more serious than what he has dealt with over the past several weeks.</p><p>Both Covington and Melton provide three-point shooting and defense that give the 76ers improved depth. With the team setting its sights on a championship — plus both players being in the final year of their respective contracts — their desire to get back to the court is immense.</p><p>The Sixers, who are the Eastern Conference’s seventh seed at the moment, <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/76ers-news-tyrese-maxey-kyle-lowry-ruled-out-for-matchup-vs-grizzlies" rel="noopener">will be without</a> Tyrese Maxey (concussion) and Kyle Lowry (rest) against the Grizzlies. Nurse said that Maxey is “doing okay” and that he’s still experiencing some mild symptoms.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

76ers’ De’Anthony Melton, Robert Covington get injury timeline updates

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/76ers-news-nico-batum-deanthony-melton-robert-covington-get-key-injury-updates-following-all-star-break');   ga('set', 'title', '76ers’ Nico Batum, De’Anthony Melton, Robert Covington get key injury updates');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/76ers-Nico-Batum-DeAnthony-Melton-Robert-Covington.webp"></figure><h1>76ers’ Nico Batum, De’Anthony Melton, Robert Covington get key injury updates</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2024-02-21T12:58:04-08:00">February 21st, 12:58pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2024-02-21T13:02:35-08:00">February 21st, 1:02pm</time><address><a>Sam DiGiovanni</a>Sam DiGiovanni started at ClutchPoints as an associate editor in 2021 and became the site's Philadelphia 76ers beat reporter ahead of the 2022-23 season. He graduated from Marist College in May of 2022 and has written for TheKnicksWall.com and CenterFieldMarist.com in the past.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>CAMDEN, N.J. — The Philadelphia 76ers dealt with a litany of injuries at the beginning of the All-Star break. Joel Embiid’s <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/76ers-news-philadelphia-re-evaluate-joel-embiid-four-weeks-meniscus-procedure" rel="noopener">meniscus injury</a> continues to be the most impactful one but a handful of other starters missed time, too. Fortunately, they should be ready to play again soon.</p><p>Nick Nurse said that everyone besides Joel Embiid and Robert Covington fully participated in practice on Wednesday. Tobias Harris, who dealt with a left hip issue that sidelined him for the 76ers’ last two games, is now on track to make it back to the court. Nico Batum (left hamstring strain) and De’Anthony Melton (back; lumbar spine stress response), who each have yet to play since the calendar turned to February, are making progress towards returning, too.</p><p>Batum “looks pretty likely” to make his return to the court, Nurse said. Melton’s return hinges on how he feels on Thursday morning. Each player has been <a href="https://x.com/Ky_Carlin/status/1760369700406501834?s=20" rel="noopener">getting work in on the court</a>, including in workouts before Philly’s recent games.</p><p>Nurse said that the chances of those two returning to the lineup are “pretty good” as the 76ers prepare to host the New York Knicks on Thursday. “I’d say we get one, maybe both — but one for sure — back,” he said.</p><p>Unfortunately, Covington (left knee bone bruise) is not yet in the clear. The 76ers’ veteran forward has been out for all of January and February so far and still has a ways to go before making his return.</p><p>“Not that I know of,” Nurse said when asked if Covington was making any progress. “I did check with [Simon Rice, the Sixers’ Vice President of Athlete Care] today about what his status was and he said [he will] probably return to play in, like, three weeks.”</p><p>The 76ers have yet to prove that they can win consistently without Embiid, though injuries to other starters compounded the big man’s absence. Now, with new additions Buddy Hield and Kyle Lowry <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/76ers-film-room-buddy-hield-bigs-step-up-in-win-over-cavs" rel="noopener">helping out</a> on top of the returns of key players, Philly has a better shot at treading water while Embiid heals.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

76ers’ Nico Batum, De’Anthony Melton, Robert Covington get key injury updates

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/76ers-news-robert-covington-gets-unfortunate-injury-update-amid-weeks-long-absence');   ga('set', 'title', '76ers’ Robert Covington gets unfortunate injury update amid weeks-long absence');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/76ers-Robert-Covington-1.webp"></figure><h1>76ers’ Robert Covington gets unfortunate injury update amid weeks-long absence</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2024-01-24T11:23:29-08:00">January 24th, 11:23am</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2024-01-24T11:23:29-08:00">January 24th, 11:23am</time><address><a>Sam DiGiovanni</a>Sam DiGiovanni started at ClutchPoints as an associate editor in 2021 and became the site's Philadelphia 76ers beat reporter ahead of the 2022-23 season. He graduated from Marist College in May of 2022 and has written for TheKnicksWall.com and CenterFieldMarist.com in the past.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>CAMDEN, N.J. — Robert Covington’s second stint with the Philadelphia 76ers has been marred by injuries. Unfortunately for the 33-year-old wing, he still has plenty of progress to make before returning to the court after already missing the Sixers’ last 10 games.</p><p>Covington is dealing with inflammation in his left knee and has yet to play a game since the calendar flipped to 2024. Nick Nurse anticipated that his <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/76ers-news-nick-nurse-details-next-steps-for-robert-covington-potential-return-from-injury" rel="noopener">return would happen soon</a> but instead, the most recent update states that he will be sidelined for a while.</p><p>The 76ers said on Wednesday that Robert Covington had received treatment over the past three weeks to address inflammation and bone bruising in his left knee. The veteran forward will be re-evaluated in approximately three to four weeks, effectively ruling him out for roughly another month.</p><p>In the 26 games he has played this season with the 76ers, Covington has averaged 4.5 points, 3.7 rebounds and 1.3 steals per game in 16.1 minutes per contest. The rate at which he racks up steals is among the very best in the NBA and he has shot 35.4 percent from beyond the arc. Upon being traded to the 76ers in the most recent James Harden trade, he said he was <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/sixers-news-robert-covington-beams-at-reuniting-with-philly-after-james-harden-trade" rel="noopener">very happy to return</a> to the team with which he made his first mark in the league.</p><p>Philly has dealt with <a href="https://x.com/BySamDiGiovanni/status/1750206048248418453?s=20" rel="noopener">a bunch of injuries</a> recently, including one to starting guard De’Anthony Melton, whose back issues have held him out for eight of his last 10 games. He will be re-evaluated in approximately a week. Mo Bamba, Patrick Beverley and Jaden Springer should be able to return from recent absences soon, Nurse said after Wednesday’s practice.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

76ers’ Robert Covington gets unfortunate injury update amid weeks-long absence

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/76ers-news-nick-nurse-details-next-steps-for-robert-covington-potential-return-from-injury');   ga('set', 'title', 'Nick Nurse details next steps for Robert Covington’s potential return from injury');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/76ers-Robert-Covington.webp"></figure><h1>Nick Nurse details next steps for Robert Covington’s potential return from injury</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2024-01-18T10:57:44-08:00">January 18th, 10:57am</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2024-01-18T10:58:44-08:00">January 18th, 10:58am</time><address><a>Sam DiGiovanni</a>Sam DiGiovanni started at ClutchPoints as an associate editor in 2021 and became the site's Philadelphia 76ers beat reporter ahead of the 2022-23 season. He graduated from Marist College in May of 2022 and has written for TheKnicksWall.com and CenterFieldMarist.com in the past.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>CAMDEN, N.J. — Robert Covington has yet to take the court for the Philadelphia 76ers since the calendar turned to 2024. The veteran forward has dealt with an injury to his left knee that has kept him out of seven straight games. While he is still going to miss a few more, his potential return is on the horizon.</p><p>76ers head coach Nick Nurse said that Covington did not participate in the Sixers’ practice on Thursday. He said that Covington’s knee has swelled on and off but that it has been down for a few days now. As the team gears up for a road back-to-back against the Orlando Magic and Charlotte Hornets, Covington will stay behind for his recovery process.</p><p>“We know he’s not making the trip but he is doing a lot of stuff now,” Nurse said. “So I would say he should be right around the corner. We’re hoping to get a good eval after this trip and hopefully, he’ll be ready to go by then. But that’s hopeful.”</p><p>Covington has averaged just 4.5 points per game with the Sixers since being included in the (most recent) James Harden blockbuster. But his <a href="https://stathead.com/tiny/LWbI3" rel="noopener">spectacular defense</a> and three-point shooting ability have made him a valuable role player for Philly in his <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/sixers-news-robert-covington-beams-at-reuniting-with-philly-after-james-harden-trade" rel="noopener">second stint with the team</a>.</p><p>Along with Robert Covington, De’Anthony Melton has also been ruled out for the 76ers’ two road games due to a lumbar spine stress response and did not practice on Thursday. Danuel House Jr. fully participated in practice after missing the Sixers’ <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/76ers-vs-nuggets-instant-breakdown-joel-embiid-nikola-jokic" rel="noopener">last game</a> with a lumbar spine contusion. Mo Bamba (right knee fat pad impingement) was also inactive from practice along with Covington and Melton while Jaden Springer (right ankle tendinitis) was a partial participant.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Nick Nurse details next steps for Robert Covington’s potential return from injury

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/sixers-news-robert-covington-not-phased-by-minutes-crunch-amid-nick-nurse-rotation-plans');   ga('set', 'title', 'Robert Covington not phased by minutes crunch amid Nick Nurse rotation plans');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Sixers-Nick-Nurse-Robert-Covington.webp"></figure><h1>Robert Covington not phased by minutes crunch amid Nick Nurse rotation plans</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2023-12-11T20:28:31-08:00">December 11th, 8:28pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2023-12-11T20:28:31-08:00">December 11th, 8:28pm</time><address><a>Sam DiGiovanni</a>Sam DiGiovanni started at ClutchPoints as an associate editor in 2021 and became the site's Philadelphia 76ers beat reporter ahead of the 2022-23 season. He graduated from Marist College in May of 2022 and has written for TheKnicksWall.com and CenterFieldMarist.com in the past.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia 76ers are exploring the options they have on their roster now that everyone is ready to go. Nick Nurse’s decisions will ultimately leave a few guys out to dry with fewer minutes than they deserve. Robert Covington is one of the Sixers squeezed out of regular minutes by the lineup crunch.</p><p>Nurse did not name Covington as one of the <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/sixers-news-nick-nurse-reveals-8-safely-phillys-main-rotation" rel="noopener">main eight players</a> in the Sixers’ rotation. While he indicated he’s one of the other players who should still play often, his minutes of late have gone from mid-teens to low-20s and then to pushing 30 minutes in games where Philly was shorthanded. He played just under 14 minutes in the Sixers’ demolition of the Washington Wizards, zero in the game before and just four in the game prior to that.</p><p>But he’s not sweating it one bit.</p><p>Covington alluded to the experience he had when he was out of the rotation for his old team, the Los Angeles Clippers to illustrate why he’s not bugging about his inconsistent role with the Sixers. He knows what this is like and he has faith in his Philly teammates.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Robert Covington isn’t sweating his lack of playing time amid Nick Nurse searching for the right lineups. Says he just looks to stay ready by being a professional &amp; that he went through stuff like this previously with the Clippers <a href="https://t.co/lLlf51wyUV">pic.twitter.com/lLlf51wyUV</a></p><p>— Sam DiGiovanni (@BySamDiGiovanni) <a href="https://twitter.com/BySamDiGiovanni/status/1734413641716273486?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 12, 2023</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><p>“Listen, you gotta be prepared. You gotta be a pro, you know? And every time you step on that court, your name’s called, you gotta be prepared. That’s it,” Covington said. “And then I went through the stuff that I went through in LA, everybody asks the same questions. How do I stay ready? It’s a mental thing.”</p><p>With the Sixers in need of defensive playmakers, Covington should have a relatively straightforward path to minutes. Nurse’s rotation decisions suggest that he only likes RoCo’s game to a certain degree, as his ability to generate turnovers and shoot from deep matches perfectly with the identity Nurse is building with this team. Nonetheless, Covington still has something to prove.</p><p>Covington was a part of the Sixers’ main rotation in this game but the blowout nature of the contest allowed Nurse to see guys like him, Jaden Springer, Mo Bamba, Danuel House Jr., K.J. Martin and Furkan Korkmaz play for an extended period of time.</p><p>“I’d like to get all those guys more minutes, but you just can’t do it. You just can’t,” Nurse said. “So, give ’em a lot of credit ’cause here is a battle going on for some of those positions and that’s their opportunity and I think most of them went out there and played very, very well.”</p><p>In the Sixers’ <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/sixers-vs-wizards-instant-breakdown-philly-doesnt-break-a-sweat-in-easy-win" rel="noopener">huge win over the Wizards,</a> Covington contributed eight points and four rebounds. He played his typical brand of basketball, slowing down the Wizards’ offense and shooting when the opportunities arose.</p><p>“That’s my job. That’s how I set the tone,” he said of his defense. “I’m the guy that brings that energy, brings effort and you know, if I don’t do it, who else will? Like I said, it’s a mentality that’s what makes my presence felt on the floor. That’s what my job is and that’s what I do best.”</p><p>Covington knows his bread-and-butter is disrupting offenses. He simply stays ready to do what he does best for the Sixers when his number is called. The numbers on the scoreboard matter most but the numbers that show he is among the best at <a href="https://www.nba.com/stats/players/hustle?CF=MIN*GE*300&amp;PerMode=Per36&amp;dir=D&amp;sort=DEFLECTIONS" rel="noopener">generating deflections</a> aren’t lost on him, either. </p><p>“It’s not the first time,” he said of being at the top of the leaderboards in those defensive stats. “It won’t be the last.”</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Robert Covington not phased by minutes crunch amid Nick Nurse rotation plans

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/sixers-news-robert-covington-drops-truth-bomb-on-phillys-scary-depth');   ga('set', 'title', 'Robert Covington drops truth bomb on Sixers’ ‘scary’ depth');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Sixers-Joel-Embiid-Tyrese-Maxey-Kelly-Oubre-Jr-Robert-Covington-Nicolas-Batum-Tobias-Harris-DeAnthony-Melton-Paul-Reed.jpeg"></figure><h1>Robert Covington drops truth bomb on Sixers’ ‘scary’ depth</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2023-12-05T12:16:33-08:00">December 5th, 12:16pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2023-12-05T12:18:05-08:00">December 5th, 12:18pm</time><address><a>Sam DiGiovanni</a>Sam DiGiovanni started at ClutchPoints as an associate editor in 2021 and became the site's Philadelphia 76ers beat reporter ahead of the 2022-23 season. He graduated from Marist College in May of 2022 and has written for TheKnicksWall.com and CenterFieldMarist.com in the past.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>CAMDEN, N.J. — The Philadelphia 76ers’ roster is set to change at some point again this season as the front office seeks another star-level player to help Joel Embiid and Tyrese Maxey. For the time being, though, the Sixers are more than comfortable with the group of guys they have right now.</p><p>The Sixers are deeper than in years past after swapping James Harden and P.J. Tucker for wings that fit the team better and allow Maxey to handle the bulk of the on-ball reps. One of them, Robert Covington, is a huge fan of the deep team he plays for and the ways head coach Nick Nurse uses it.</p><p>“Scary. Very scary,” Covington said of the Sixers’ depth after Tuesday’s practice. “The way that Nick has put us in a position to succeed, everyone’s gonna be able to thrive with the way that we’re doing things and the way he’s implementing and trying and figuring out lineups. The amount of guys and the amount of versatility we have is, like I said, very scary.”</p><p>Covington sees the <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/sixers-news-kelly-oubre-jr-breaks-silence-on-rehab-impending-return-to-court" rel="noopener">impending return</a> of Kelly Oubre Jr. as something that will make the Sixers “that much more of a deep threat.” The roster isn’t perfect — it badly lacks guards that can consistently penetrate defenses, for instance — but the versatility of the wings they have makes up for it.</p><p>The Sixers have typical 3-and-D wings like Covington, who <a href="https://www.basketball-reference.com/leagues/NBA_2024_advanced.html#advanced_stats::15" rel="noopener">leads all qualified players in steal percentage</a> with his lightning-quick hands. They have guys like Tobias Harris, who can generate his own shots from time to time, and Nicolas Batum, a genius passer with a smooth jump shot. Oubre has shot the ball well so far this season and has an athletic gear that makes him a very nice complementary scorer.</p><p>Much of the Sixers’ lineup experimentation is the result of injuries, though Nurse has changed up rotation patterns here and there and looked for different lineups when he has to, most notably starting Marcus Morris Sr. in place of Embiid. But at least when it comes to lineups that have played together for a decent amount of time, Philly ranks behind most of the other teams in the NBA.</p><p>So far this season, Philly has seen 13 five-man combinations that have played at least a quarter’s worth of minutes in total, which ties for 20th in the NBA with three other teams. There have been <a href="https://www.nba.com/stats/lineups/traditional?CF=MIN*GE*12&amp;PerMode=Totals&amp;TeamID=0&amp;dir=D&amp;slug=traditional&amp;sort=MIN" rel="noopener">449 such lineups</a> to this point in the 2023-24 campaign. The Miami Heat lead the league with 22, the Oklahoma City Thunder are in last with eight and the league average is roughly 15. There are 17 teams who fall in the range of 16 to 12 of such lineups.</p><p>While this specific data doesn’t indicate that Nurse is averse to mixing up his lineups, it shows that the Sixers have plenty of work to do when it comes to seeing the different types of lineup combos they have. They have only had a month with their current group following the trade and have had to deal with absences from numerous players, throwing off some of their plans.</p><p>“That’s what you have 82 games a season for,” Covington said. “Trying to find out which rhythms work for different guys and which guys mesh well. We have so many different guys that do so many different things, it’s like matching up who can work well…that’s gonna make us the most effective.”</p><p>Nurse said that he’s still working on incorporating the Sixers’ new players (Covington, Nicolas Batum, Marcus Morris Sr. and K.J. Martin). Even as the former Los Angeles Clippers catch up to speed with how Philly wants to play, the Sixers have been able to stay close to the top of the Eastern Conference standings to this point.</p><p>“It’s pretty technical stuff,” Nurse said. “Just the terminology and way we cover certain NBA sets, anything that we do that’s maybe not that widely done, maybe a few things that we do that are a little different. All those kind of things since they didn’t have training camp and all the lead-up time into that.”</p><p>Once Oubre is officially back, the Sixers will have some <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/sixers-new-rotation-after-trading-james-harden-to-clippers" rel="noopener">huge choices to make</a> over who starts and what lineup combinations become staples of the rotation.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Robert Covington drops truth bomb on Sixers’ ‘scary’ depth

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/sixers-news-tyrese-maxey-draws-superstar-take-robert-covington-breakout-season');   ga('set', 'title', 'Sixers’ Tyrese Maxey draws ‘superstar’ take from Robert Covington amid breakout season');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/sixers-news-tyrese-maxey-draws-superstar-take-from-robert-covington-amid-breakout-season.jpg"></figure><h1>Sixers’ Tyrese Maxey draws ‘superstar’ take from Robert Covington amid breakout season</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2023-11-11T15:17:20-08:00">November 11th, 3:17pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2023-11-11T15:18:15-08:00">November 11th, 3:18pm</time><address><a>Angelo Guinhawa</a>Angelo Guinhawa is a Senior Associate Editor at ClutchPoints. He has previously worked for FOX Sports PH and a number of reputable sports media outlets. If he's not writing or watching sports, he's likely scouring online for his next NBA card purchase.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>Tyrese Maxey is on his way to being the next Philadelphia 76ers superstar after Joel Embiid. His new Sixers teammate, Robert Covington, is a firm believer of that.</p><p><a href="https://clutchpoints.com/sixers-news-tyrese-maxey-breakout-season-leads-to-crazy-feat-not-seen-in-40-years" rel="noopener">Maxey has been sensational</a> since becoming the Sixers’ second option on offense <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/sixers-news-tyrese-maxeys-terrific-philly-start-has-fans-mocking-james-harden" rel="noopener">following the James Harden drama</a> and departure. He is a huge reason why Philly is 7-1 on the season, having won seven straight games including one against the Boston Celtics. Maxey is averaging 25.9 points, 5.3 rebounds, 7.5 assists and 1.1 steals, all while shooting 48.0  percent from the field and 39.3 percent from deep.</p><p>Considering how great he is playing, Covington sees nothing but great things ahead for the young guard. He said as much while talking to reporters on Saturday, noting his belief that Maxey is a future superstar in the NBA.</p><p>“Man, <a href="https://twitter.com/NBAKrell/status/1723426959038799912" rel="noopener">he’s a growing superstar</a>. We was talking, I was talking about ‘Fourth Quarter Maxey.’ He’s been phenomenal. He stepped up, made lot of big plays. That’s what he has to do. The ball in his hands. I told him, ‘That’s your role. That’s your position now,'” Covington shared, per Austin Krell of 973 ESPN FM.</p><p>Tyrese Maxey is definitely one of the leading candidates for the Most Improved Player award this 2023-24 season, and it won’t be a surprise if he makes the All-Star team as well considering how incredible he has been. If the Sixers continue to stay on top of the East and the NBA, it’s not hard to see the 23-year-old getting plenty of All-Star votes.</p><p>Whatever happens, though, Sixers fans are surely happy with the player they got in Maxey. As Robert Covington said, they have a future superstar in their hands.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Sixers’ Tyrese Maxey draws ‘superstar’ take from Robert Covington amid breakout season

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He graduated from Marist College in May of 2022 and has written for TheKnicksWall.com and CenterFieldMarist.com in the past.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>PHILADELPHIA — Robert Covington is back doing what he does for the Philadelphia 76ers: making plays on defense. In the Sixers’ <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/sixers-vs-suns-instant-breakdown-joel-embiid-kevin-durant" rel="noopener">Saturday afternoon win</a> over the Phoenix Suns, he played an important part.</p><p>Covington played in the first quarter of the Sixers’ after Kelly Oubre Jr. and Tobias Harris each committed a pair of fouls early in the game. Nick Nurse needed someone to match up with Kevin Durant and, although Covington didn’t stay with him for the duration of the game, he defended pretty well in the 18 minutes he played, tallying five deflections, two steals and a block. Joel Embiid liked what he saw from a guy he played alongside in the first two seasons of his career.</p><p>“He did a great job rebounding and defensively,” Embiid said. “Obviously, his shot wasn’t there but he did the little things at a high level. I thought he did a good job on KD and then, like I said, rebounding. And then on offense, he’s still finding his way with the spacing but I’m sure as the game goes, he’s gonna find a way. He did pretty good.”</p><p>Covington was the first player traded from the Los Angeles Clippers in the James Harden deal to play meaningful minutes for the Sixers. Nicolas Batum was away from the team due to a personal matter but <a href="https://x.com/ChrisBHaynes/status/1721195259315794392?s=20" rel="noopener">is now back</a>. K.J. Martin has played in garbage time and Marcus Morris Sr. is still ramping up after not playing yet this regular season or preseason.</p><p>Nurse is a fan of what Covington can bring to the Sixers.</p><p>“The first couple things is do you have the ability and do you want to do it? And I think he’s got that,” Nurse said of Covington’s defensive abilities. “He’s got some ability, athletic size, strength, pretty good off-the-ball stuff. And then he is trying really hard, so that goes a long way at that end of the floor. So, that’s good to see. And he seems confident.”</p><p>Nurse acknowledged that Covington didn’t make any shots from the field but that he “stepped into him like he was going to, which is a good start.” A career 36.2 percent shooter from three-point range, RoCo should be able to find a spot in the Sixers’ rotation. </p><p>The chance to play for the Sixers again is one that Covington is <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/sixers-news-robert-covington-beams-at-reuniting-with-philly-after-james-harden-trade" rel="noopener">very excited for</a>.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Robert Covington’s defensive talents talked up by Joel Embiid, Nick Nurse

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/sixers-news-robert-covington-beams-at-reuniting-with-philly-after-james-harden-trade');   ga('set', 'title', 'Robert Covington beams at reuniting with Sixers after James Harden trade');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Sixers-Robert-Covington.jpeg"></figure><h1>Robert Covington beams at reuniting with Sixers after James Harden trade</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2023-11-02T05:25:24-07:00">November 2nd, 5:25am</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2023-11-02T05:25:24-07:00">November 2nd, 5:25am</time><address><a>Sam DiGiovanni</a>Sam DiGiovanni started at ClutchPoints as an associate editor in 2021 and became the site's Philadelphia 76ers beat reporter ahead of the 2022-23 season. He graduated from Marist College in May of 2022 and has written for TheKnicksWall.com and CenterFieldMarist.com in the past.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>CAMDEN, N.J. — November 9, 2014, was not a momentous day for the Philadelphia 76ers. They dropped their 11th straight game to open the season, losing 101-90 to the Boston Celtics. It was, however, a big day for Robert Covington. That game was the first time he made a triple for the Sixers.</p><p>With 9:37 left to go in the second quarter, a Tony Wroten-assisted triple from Covington put the Sixers up by 11 points. They went on to blow that lead but witnessed the first of 707 threes that Covington would go on to make in a Sixers uniform. Only Allen Iverson, with 885, has more. From his game-winner against the Portland Trail Blazers to his 2017-18 campaign, in which he became the first Sixers player to make 200 threes in a season since 2004-05 Kyle Korver (one of just three such campaigns in team history), Roco knows a thing or two about hitting a three-ball for the Sixers.</p><p>Now, Covington has another shot to inch closer to Iverson on the leaderboard — a record that Daryl Morey said he’s looking to break. The Sixers acquired him in the <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/sixers-news-daryl-morey-doesnt-regret-good-bet-of-trading-for-james-harden" rel="noopener">blockbuster trade</a> that sent James Harden to the Los Angeles Clippers. Five full seasons and four teams later, a fan favorite and one of the greatest individual success stories from the Process years is back to help the team compete for the ultimate prize.</p><p>Morey ended his reunion with Harden by forming another one with Covington. While the Sixers are the former team RoCo is most remembered for, he got his NBA start with the Houston Rockets when Morey ran the show. He came up through their G League affiliate, the Rio Grande Valley Vipers, and played seven games for them. But make no mistake: Philly is his NBA home.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">I’m Home!!! <a href="https://t.co/v6L4PkNSxL">https://t.co/v6L4PkNSxL</a></p><p>— Robert Covington (@Holla_At_Rob33) <a href="https://twitter.com/Holla_At_Rob33/status/1719787748263879044?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 1, 2023</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><p>“This is where I put my name on the map,” Covington said after the Sixers’ practice, which he and the other newbies were merely observers for. “It feels great to be back. I’ve been in this building when it first opened, seeing the amount of hours that was spent putting into the development here. It’s just amazing to be back. I’m thankful for the new opportunity under Nick and them. This organization has been very special to me. Just for everything to come back into the fold…It’s a new feeling of relief. I’m thankful that, like I said, I get to come back and just second go-around.”</p><p>Covington believes he will be able to contribute to the Sixers in numerous ways. As a shooter who can create turnovers that spark fast breaks, it’s only a matter of time (and ability to ward off the effects of aging) before he earns consistent minutes in Nick Nurse’s rotation.</p><p>The Sixers’ trade that included Covington in a package sent to the Minnesota Timberwolves in exchange for Jimmy Butler began a carousel of trades that have shaped and reshaped the roster around Joel Embiid time and time again. Besides him, the only other player on Philly’s roster at the time of that November 2018 trade who remains is Furkan Korkmaz. Tobias Harris was traded for three months later.</p><p>Covington is not the only new addition who is familiar with Philly. In fact, he’s second in that department behind Marcus Morris Sr.</p><p>Morris is a <a href="https://www.cityofbasketballlove.com/news_article/show/1235010" rel="noopener">proud native of the city</a>. The 34-year-old forward starred at Prep Charter with his twin brother, Markieff, before embarking on a long basketball journey that, after 11 seasons and six teams, includes his hometown squad. He said it’s “surreal” to play in his home and in front of friends and family and that he’s going to surprise people with what he brings to the team, adding that he’ll play wherever he’s asked.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Marcus Morris Sr says it’s “surreal” to be able to play for his hometown team <a href="https://t.co/eSpr8EVUqJ">pic.twitter.com/eSpr8EVUqJ</a></p><p>— Sam DiGiovanni (@BySamDiGiovanni) <a href="https://twitter.com/BySamDiGiovanni/status/1719771283154481397?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 1, 2023</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><p>“I just think, you know, the way the team I was on previous years, I didn’t feel like I was myself,” Morris said. “I was on the West Coast. I think we all know it’s a big difference from being in the East and the West. I just don’t think — I know — I wasn’t myself. I know I wasn’t half myself.”</p><p>Being back home, Morris said, will provide a “different atmosphere” that will help him get back to being himself. Uprooting one’s life in an instant is never easy but it’s safe to say that this adjustment will be the easiest midseason team-to-team Morris has had to make.</p><p>Morris and Covington already know what it’s like to be traded midseason. Nicolas Batum, however, just got the first taste of it in his 16-year NBA career. He called the last 24 hours “insane” and shared that he found out about the trade from his wife as he woke up. The Sixers’ newbies got to Philly at 1:00 in the morning before their first time meeting the team at practice at 8:00.</p><p>“It’s different,” Batum said of learning a new team’s system during the season. “I‘ve been through, like, three weeks of camp, only three games in the season. Then you have to go through everything again. So, you know, it’s part of business.”</p><p>K.J. Martin, the youngest player the Sixers received in the trade by far, experienced being moved during the season for the first time in his short career. But as the son of former All-Star and 2000 NBA Draft first-overall pick Kenyon Martin, the 22-year-old is familiar with the ways of NBA life. Martin said his father gave him guidance through it all but that being traded to the Sixers, even though he sees plenty of positives, was hard.</p><p>“I mean, obviously, this was kinda tough. I got traded to LA. I was back home with my family stuff like that and then it was a day ago, I got traded here,” Martin said. “I feel like it’s a good situation, though. I’m really excited.”</p><p>Martin said that he has worked with Rico Hines, one of the Sixers’ assistant coaches, since he was 15 years old. He said that he has known Tyrese Maxey since they played each other in high school. He even got the chance to scrimmage some of his eventual future teammates this summer during Hines’ <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/sixers-paul-reed-jaden-springer-other-youngsters-show-out-rico-hines-runs" rel="noopener">pickup runs</a>. Familiarity, which includes the three teammates he was traded with, will make the transition to Philly much easier, he said.</p><p>The new Clippers-turned-Sixers will have to adjust to their new team, though they will have to retain the mindset of preparing with the end goal of a championship in mind.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Robert Covington beams at reuniting with Sixers after James Harden trade

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/sixers-news-robert-covington-philadelphia-james-harden-trade');   ga('set', 'title', 'Robert Covington reacts to Sixers return as part of James Harden trade');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Robert-Covington-reacts-to-Philly-return-as-part-of-James-Harden-trade.jpg"></figure><h1>Robert Covington reacts to Sixers return as part of James Harden trade</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2023-10-31T09:00:47-07:00">October 31st, 9:00am</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2023-10-31T09:05:20-07:00">October 31st, 9:05am</time><address><a href="https://joeymistretta.wordpress.com">Joey Mistretta</a>Joey Mistretta is a sports writer/editor who covers multiple sports. Notably, Mistretta covers baseball, basketball, and football, with an emphasis on MLB as a Lead Editor. He is originally from a small town in Southern California. Mistretta graduated college with a degree in broadcast journalism from Biola University.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>The Los Angeles Clippers and Philadelphia 76ers <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/clippers-news-james-harden-sixers-trade" rel="noopener">agreed to a trade</a> late Monday night that sent James Harden to LA. Harden, who <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/a-timeline-of-james-harden-requesting-a-trade-from-rockets-to-nets" rel="noopener">previously requested a trade</a>, gets to restart with Kawhi Leonard, Paul George and the Clippers. The Sixers acquired a number of players and picks in return including veteran forward Robert Covington.</p><p>Covington <a href="https://twitter.com/ClutchPoints/status/1719369391861567984" rel="noopener">shared a reaction</a> to returning to the Sixers, a team he previously played for, on his Instagram story following the blockbuster trade, via ClutchPoints.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">"Back to where it began."</p><p>Robert Covington on his IG story after being traded to the Sixers as part of the James Harden deal 🙌</p><p>RoCo played in Philly from 2014-2018.</p><p>(via atf_33/IG) <a href="https://t.co/d6ZFyeBqVF">pic.twitter.com/d6ZFyeBqVF</a></p><p>— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPoints) <a href="https://twitter.com/ClutchPoints/status/1719369391861567984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 31, 2023</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><p>“Back to where it began.”</p><p>Noticeably, the image Covington posted has superstar Joel Embiid in the background. Covington is likely excited to play alongside the reigning NBA MVP once again.</p><p>Although losing a star like James Harden is far from ideal, the Sixers still expect to compete. Adding a veteran player with versatility like Covington will prove to be important.</p><h2><b>Robert Covington heads to Sixers</b></h2><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Robert-Covington-reacts-to-Philly-return-as-part-of-James-Harden-trade-2.jpg"></figure><p>Covington, 32, initially made his NBA debut with the Houston Rockets during the 2013-14 season. He ended up in Philly in 2014-15 though, and would remain there until the 2018-19 campaign.</p><p>Covington played for the Minnesota Timberwolves, Rockets (again), Portland Trail Blazers, and Clippers after leaving the Sixers. He’s spent the last two years in LA before getting traded early this season.</p><p>Philadelphia has been competitive in recent seasons, but they are looking to reach new heights. The Sixers still feature a talented roster and the depth they acquired in the James Harden trade should help their situation moving forward.</p><p>Additionally, any team that has a superstar like Joel Embiid is going to find a way to play a quality brand of basketball. Embiid is almost unstoppable in the paint and also features a key element of versatility in his game.</p><p>Philadelphia is going to have difficulty in terms of reaching the NBA Finals with teams like the Milwaukee Bucks and Boston Celtics in the Eastern Conference. But the Sixers will remain confident even after this blockbuster deal.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Robert Covington reacts to Sixers return as part of James Harden trade

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/clippers-news-robert-covington-to-replace-terance-mann-in-season-opener');   ga('set', 'title', 'Clippers’ Robert Covington to replace Terance Mann in season-opener');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Terance-Mann-Kawhi-Leonard-Tyronn-Lue-Los-ANgeles-Clippers.jpg"><figcaption>CP</figcaption></figure><h1>Clippers’ Robert Covington to replace Terance Mann in season-opener</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2023-10-25T19:17:45-07:00">October 25th, 7:17pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2023-10-25T19:21:36-07:00">October 25th, 7:21pm</time><address><a>Tomer Azarly</a>Tomer Azarly is in his seventh season as the LA Clippers beat writer for ClutchPoints. From the Lob City era to the Kawhi Leonard-Paul George era, he brings you everything you need to know about the Clippers.In his off time, Tomer likes to play basketball, video games, and draw.You can follow his Twitter for all Clippers content below:</address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles Clippers were hoping to start the regular season healthy, but that won’t be the case this time around. Terance Mann, who was expected to start for the Clippers, will be sidelined for the team’s home opener against the Portland Trail Blazers with a sprained left ankle. In his place, <a href="https://twitter.com/TomerAzarly/status/1717342616008982969" rel="noopener">the Clippers are expected to start</a> Robert Covington.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Robert Covington will start for the Clippers tonight in place of Terance Mann, says Tyronn Lue.</p><p>— Tomer Azarly (@TomerAzarly) <a href="https://twitter.com/TomerAzarly/status/1717342616008982969?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 26, 2023</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><p>Speaking to reporters before Clippers-Blazers, head coach Tyronn Lue said he would start Covington with because he would, ‘be a good fit for tonight.’</p><p>Terance Mann’s ankle sprain is not considered to hold him out for an extended period of time, and he was in great spirits before the game despite being in a bulky walking boot. Mann says he was contesting a shot when his left ankle was stepped on and rolled.</p><p>The <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/clippers-news-tyronn-lue-reveals-5th-starter-alongside-kawhi-leonard-paul-george-russell-westbrook" rel="noopener">final starting spot</a> for the Clippers appeared to be between Terance Mann, Robert Covington, and Nicolas Batum, with Mann edging the latter two for the position. Batum has long favored coming off the bench and providing anything the team needed him to. Covington would’ve also had a strong role off the Clippers bench had Mann been healthy.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Clippers starters vs. Blazers:</p><p>Russell Westbrook<br>Paul George<br>Kawhi Leonard<br>Robert Covington<br>Ivica Zubac</p><p>— Tomer Azarly (@TomerAzarly) <a href="https://twitter.com/TomerAzarly/status/1717342684640362896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 26, 2023</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><p>While Mann is not healthy, the Clippers will have both Kawhi Leonard and Paul George back and ready to go for the start of the 2023-24 season. Wednesday’s game marks the first time the two-way stars are available and starting a season-opener together since the 2020-21 season, which came after a brief offseason due to the previously shortended COVID-season and NBA bubble.</p><p>“We’re excited about it, just having both guys healthy is very important to us,” Tyronn Lue told reporters ahead of the opener against the Blazers. “And then just giving our fans something to be happy about. I know it’s a long season, but having Kawhi and PG both in the starting lineup, being able to play tonight with no restrictions, it’s good to see. I’m happy for PG and Kawhi as well, all the hard work they had to put in to get to this point. We’re very excited. We’re excited, hoe our fans are excited. We’re ready to go.”</p><p>Throughout training camp, the Clippers had been playing faster with an emphasis on up-tempo basketball and being a better defensive team. Tonight’s game against an upstart Blazers team starting Scoot Henderson, Anfernee Simons, Matisse Thybulle, Jerami Grant, and Deandre Ayton, so it’ll be interesting to see how the Clippers fare with the younger team.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Clippers’ Robert Covington to replace Terance Mann in season-opener

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/clippers-robert-covington-has-big-night-in-win-over-jazz');   ga('set', 'title', 'Clippers Robert Covington has big night in win over Jazz');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Clippers-Robert-Covington-has-big-night-in-win-over-Jazz.jpeg"></figure><h1>Clippers Robert Covington has big night in win over Jazz</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2023-10-11T17:01:36-07:00">October 11th, 5:01pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2023-10-11T17:01:36-07:00">October 11th, 5:01pm</time><address><a>Randall Barnes</a>Randall Barnes is a Fall 2019 Graduate of Fort Valley State University, an HBCU (Historically Black College or University) in Fort Valley, Georgia, where he majored in Media Studies. He is the Founder of HBCU Pulse, a multimedia outlet with the mission to tell the authentic stories of HBCU Life via traditional, digital and social media outlets to amplify our voice. He is also the host of HBCU Pulse Radio, which can be heard on SiriusXM Channel 142 HBCU Fridays at 5 p.m. EST and wherever you get your podcasts.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">HBCU</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>Los Angeles forward Robert Covington<a href="https://clutchpoints.com/clippers-news-robert-covington-opens-up-on-offseason-battle-becoming-a-changed-player" rel="noopener"> was in midseason form</a> in the team’s latest preseason matchup against the Utah Jazz. Covington finished the night with 11 points on 4-7 shooting with 1 three-pointer and two free throws. He also showed a defensive intensity, finishing the game with four blocks in his 22 minutes of play in the Clippers 103-98 victory.</p><p>The undrafted forward out of Tennessee State University, an HBCU, <a href="https://tsutigers.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/robert-covington/307" rel="noopener">has had a</a> remarkable career as a pivotal role player on teams with goals of title contention. He joined the Clippers in 2022 after he was traded from the Portland Trailblazers in a package that also featured his current teammate Norman Powell. After the trade, Covington played 23 games for the Clippers <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/blazers-biggest-2022-nba-trade-deadline-mistake" rel="noopener">and averaged</a> 10.4 points per game, 5.1 rebounds per game, 1.2 blocks, 1.3 steals, and shot 45% from the 3-point line and averaged 4.7 attempts per game.</p><p>Covington’s production dipped in the 2022-2023 season. He only averaged 6 points per game, 3 rebounds, and shot 39% from three on 2.8 attempts per game. He didn’t see much playing time in the Clipper’s loss to the Kevin Durant-led Phoenix Suns in the 2023 playoffs, only playing in two of the five games. But, Covington hopes to increase his production and consequentially increase his playing time.</p><p>The Clippers have dealt with severe injury struggles since Kawhi Leonard and Paul George joined the team in the Summer of 2019. Covington can provide significant depth at the forward position, playing as both a traditional three-and-D small forward or a small-ball lineup power forward. If Covington continues his preseason production, he will surely be a factor in the team’s title hopes.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Clippers Robert Covington has big night in win over Jazz

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/clippers-news-robert-covington-opens-up-on-offseason-battle-becoming-a-changed-player');   ga('set', 'title', 'Clippers’ Robert Covington opens up on offseason battle, becoming a changed player');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Robert-Covington-Los-Angeles-Clippers-a.jpeg"><figcaption>CP</figcaption></figure><h1>Clippers’ Robert Covington opens up on offseason battle, becoming a changed player</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2023-10-05T05:17:13-07:00">October 5th, 5:17am</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2023-10-05T05:30:58-07:00">October 5th, 5:30am</time><address><a>Tomer Azarly</a>Tomer Azarly is in his seventh season as the LA Clippers beat writer for ClutchPoints. From the Lob City era to the Kawhi Leonard-Paul George era, he brings you everything you need to know about the Clippers.In his off time, Tomer likes to play basketball, video games, and draw.You can follow his Twitter for all Clippers content below:</address><h3 class="op-kicker">Editorials</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>PLAYA VISTA, CA – The 2022-23 NBA season was a whirlwind for the LA Clippers, and not many had to endure more than Robert Covington. The forward, who re-signed with the team in the summer of 2022, came in expecting a significant role on a team expected to contend for an NBA Championship. Instead, Covington was relegated to a bench role that he struggled to find his way out of.</p><p>Robert Covington was traded to the Clippers with Norman Powell a week before the 2022 trade deadline. He closed the year out strong for LA, but that didn’t translate into much playing time. Covington appeared in 48 games for the Clippers last season, playing just 16.2 minutes per game. He finished with three games playing over 30 minutes and 15 games under 10 minutes.</p><p>“Last year was last year,” Covington told ClutchPoints in an exclusive interview this week. “I don’t even think about it no more. This year, I put myself in a position to be a different type of player and do different things on the court, make myself more viable, and just let everything fall into place. I guess nothing that I’ve done differently, but I just just added more. Just a little bit more.”</p><p>The offseason is usually a time for players to vacation and work on their game, but not for Covington. Without getting too far into the intricacies of his private life, the Tennessee State alumni opened up and admitted he spent the majority of his offseason locked into a custody battle for his daughter.</p><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Robert-Covington-Daughter-Los-Angeles-Clippers.jpg"><figcaption>Robert Covington/Instagram</figcaption></figure><p>“Truthfully, my offseason was spent fighting for her,” Covington smiled, looking down at her as he carried her with his left arm. “I won the first part of my case with her. And that’s where the majority of my time was spent. I got the verdict July 31st, worked in my favor. And ever since then, that was the biggest thing that I focused on this summer. Working out and preparing for July 31st. And then once that happened, smooth sailing from there, like it’s been a weight lifted off of.”</p><p>Covington missed Day 1 of Clippers training camp in Hawaii due to personal reasons involving his daughter. He was able to complete whatever he needed to after Media Day and met the team in Honolulu for Day 2 of camp.</p><p>The 6-foot-7 forward also admitted that he moved his family to Los Angeles this offseason, and even had his brother help him train in preparation for the 2023-24 NBA season.</p><p>“For the majority of the summer, no, I wasn’t focused on basketball. I spent most of my time preparing for this. And I worked out significantly. I worked out enough to keep myself prepared for what I needed to do. That way, when I came, I felt like I came into what I wanted to come here. I’ve been here since July 30th because of things with the court order and everything. But been working out. I’ve been at home, me and my brother. My brother, I moved with my family here. My brother’s been helping me in training when I’m not here. I’ve been looking great, man. I’ve been looking great.”</p><p>Despite not playing the role or the amount he expected to last season, Covington remained a professional throughout the Clippers season. In a March interview with ClutchPoints, <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/clippers-news-trying-to-make-sense-of-marcus-morris-robert-covington-and-tyronn-lue" rel="noopener">Robert Covington said</a> he was okay with the situation and ready whenever the team needed him, crediting his vets like Elton Brand, Jason Richardson, Carl Landry, and Josh Powell for showing him the path.</p><p>This past offseason, an <a href="https://theathletic.com/4767526/2023/08/11/clippers-robert-covington-unplugged/" rel="noopener">interview of Covington</a> was released, and among the quotes in the piece was one that stated he and Tyronn Lue had not spoken once since the season ended.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Funny how y’all can twist something I said lol I was specifically talking about having a convo about what happened last year.</p><p>— Robert Covington (@Holla_At_Rob33) <a href="https://twitter.com/Holla_At_Rob33/status/1690831726048899072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 13, 2023</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><p>“Me and Ty are great,” Covington told ClutchPoints when asked to clarify if they had spoken and about the status of their relationship. “There was no issue. My reason why I didn’t talk to Ty was because I was more focused on [my daughter]. I didn’t really talk to nobody here. If I wasn’t here, I really didn’t have that much conversation, Like I said, because my focus was elsewhere.</p><p>“There’s no issues with me and nobody on this team. It never was, man. Somebody, the guy tried to create a narrative talking about that me and Ty Lue never talk, and that I don’t plan on re-talking. No, that’s not the case. We’re great.”</p><p>Entering training camp, President of Basketball Operations Lawrence hinted that we could see a competition for the final spot in the Clippers’ starting five. As of right now, Russell Westbrook will start alongside Paul George, Kawhi Leonard, and Ivica Zubac.</p><p>Robert Covington, Marcus Morris, Nicolas Batum, and Terance Mann are all very potential candidates to start for the Clippers alongside the other four.</p><p>“I’ll just go out and do what I know,” Covington explained. “The best man’s gonna win at the end of the day. What they see when we had this camp, best man gonna win when it comes down to it. We’re all gonna compete, we gonna have a great camp, and we gonna do what we have to do. And then, Ty Lue’s gonna have to make a decision.”</p><p>At the end of each season, Lawrence Frank and head coach Tyronn Lue assign a ‘laundry list’ of things they want a player to improve on. With the legal battle nearing its end and in favor of Covington, he says he’s able to completely focus on basketball once again.</p><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Robert-Covington-Los-Angeles-Clippers-Daughter.jpg"><figcaption>Robert Covington/Instagram</figcaption></figure><p>“Everybody’s been loving what I’ve been doing. The way I’ve been playing, the way I’ve been working out, I’ve gotten a lot of good feedback. Everybody’s seeing a different me from last summer.”</p><p>What is it that everybody going to see, exactly?</p><p>“They’ll see someone that literally, you see the confidence, you see the work ethic, you see all the positive things that they didn’t see coming into last summer when I came back. There was a lot of uncertainty in my face, there was a lot of body language and everything that’s different just because of the stuff that I had on my mind. It’s completely different this year.”</p><p>The Clippers will tip off their preseason opener on Sunday, October 8th against the Utah Jazz at the Stan Sheriff Center in Honolulu, Hawaii. They’ll face the Jazz again two days later on October 10th in Seattle, Washington. Their two remaining preseason games after that, both against the Denver Nuggets, will come on October 17th and 19th.</p><p>Los Angeles opens the 2023-24 regular season on Wednesday, October 24th against Robert Covington’s former team: the Portland Trail Blazers.</p><p>“Last year was frustrating for a lot of reasons, but once I was able to get through all the stuff that I went through over summer and once I got ahold of this little girl, all that stuff went away.”</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Clippers’ Robert Covington opens up on offseason battle, becoming a changed player

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He excels with his versatile coverage of the NFL, NBA, soccer, sports media, and more. As a longtime self-professed sports junkie, it is a dream to write about sports professionally. He’s a lifelong Buffalo Bills fan from Western New York and when he’s not enjoying a round of golf he's probably coaching youth soccer or flag football. You can catch all of his sports-related musings on Twitter at @twcrean.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>Los Angeles Clippers forward Robert Covington didn’t have a good 2022-23 season in his first full year with the franchise. The team’s <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/lakers-news-tyronn-lues-wild-party-story-la-playing-days-will-have-fans-cackling" rel="noopener">head coach, Tyronn Lue</a>, never settled on a role for <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/clippers-news-nicolas-batum-expected-to-start-moving-forward-robert-covington-taking-his-place-off-bench" rel="noopener">the versatile big man</a>. And now, in the 2023 NBA offseason, Covington doesn’t sound like he’s all that interested in making his relationship with his coach better.</p><p>In a <a href="https://theathletic.com/4767526/2023/08/11/clippers-robert-covington-unplugged/" rel="noopener">wide-ranging interview</a> with Law Murray of The Athletic, Covington said he hasn’t spoken with his coach since the season ended, and he’s not all that interested in doing so.</p><p>“If it do, it do. If it don’t, I won’t dwell on it,” Covington said of an offseason conversation with Tyronn Lue happening. “I focus on control, what I control, and I go out and do my job. Whatever happens, happens. I haven’t talked to T (Lue) since the season ended.”</p><p>When asked what he learned from last season when Covington played just 16.2 minutes per game — the lowest average since his rookie season — the 10-year NBA vet said he’s moved on from the campaign.</p><p>“I didn’t take nothing from last year. Last year didn’t go how I expected, so I didn’t take nothing from it. I just wash it away and start over, a new year. That’s just my mentality of it,” Covington said. “It’s nothing that could be talked about. I mean, I really haven’t had much feedback besides, you know, what I’ve been doing now. I haven’t talked about last year. I’ve put that behind me and focused on right now and moving forward.”</p><p>Clippers fans can take the cryptic comments from Robert Covington one of two ways.</p><p>Either he is truly ready to forget last year and start fresh with the team, or he is ready to move on from Tyronn Lue and the Clippers, and looking forward to moving on to his sixth NBA team next season.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

2023-24 SEASON STATS
PTS	REB	AST	BLK	STL
4.5	3.4	0.7	0.6	1.3

2023-24 SEASON STATS
PTS	REB	AST	BLK	STL
4.5	3.4	0.7	0.6	1.3

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