Sixers Injury Report Reads Like a CVS Receipt While Celtics Stay Flawless

The Philadelphia 76ers' injury report is currently reading like a CVS receipt. While the Boston Celtics and New York Knicks are sitting pretty with zero names on the list, Philly is out here holding open tryouts just to field a practice squad.

According to the latest Underdog NBA update for October 20, the Sixers have six guys dealing with ailments. Anfernee Simons, Dean Wade, and Adem Bona are all questionable, while Ariel Hukporti, Dominick Barlow, and Tacko Fall are officially out.

"Underdog NBA reported the full October 20 injury list, highlighting the stark contrast between the healthy Celtics and battered Sixers."

Bona has been giving them a solid 17 minutes a night with 4.8 points and 4.3 boards, but now the frontcourt depth is looking thinner than single-ply toilet paper. Meanwhile, the Celtics are completely clean on the injury front, which probably explains how they just dropped 125 points on Philly in their October 16 matchup.

The rest of the league is dealing with its own scattered absences. Out in San Antonio, Tobias Harris is sidelined alongside Jayden Quaintance for the San Antonio Spurs. The Oklahoma City Thunder are missing Nikola Topic and Thomas Sorber, while the Detroit Pistons will be without Taurean Prince.

Detroit somehow just blew out the Minnesota Timberwolves 128-106 a few days ago, so maybe they can survive the missing depth. But for anyone looking at the game lines, a clean injury report for Boston and New York is the kind of stability that makes oddsmakers sleep well at night. Trying to handicap a Sixers rotation that might feature a guy pulled from the upper concourse is a completely different story.

Philly has to figure out their rotation immediately before this early-season injury bug buries them in the standings. If Simons and Wade cannot go, expect some heavy minutes for whoever is left standing in the locker room.