October 1: McCain underwent surgery to repair a UCL tear in his right thumb on Tuesday, the team tweets. He’ll be reevaluated in approximately four weeks.
September 27: McCain is expected to undergo thumb surgery and will miss four-to-six weeks, ESPN’s Shams Charania reported on NBA Today (video link).
September 25: Sixers guard Jared McCain sustained a torn ulnar collateral ligament (UCL) in his right thumb during a workout on Thursday, reports Tim Bontemps of ESPN (via Twitter).
The Sixers officially confirmed the unfortunate news in a press release (Twitter link).
It’s yet another injury blow for the 76ers, who have dealt with numerous absences to key players over the years. That was particularly true in 2024/25, when Philadelphia went just 24-58 after handing out several lucrative contracts in the 2024 offseason.
It’s also an unfortunate setback for McCain, who was one of the early bright spots amid a disappointing start last season. The No. 16 pick of the 2024 draft, McCain was among the Rookie of the Year frontrunners to open ’24/25, averaging 15.3 points, 2.6 assists and 2.4 rebounds on .460/.383/.875 shooting in 23 games (25.7 MPG) prior to suffering a season-ending injury — a torn lateral meniscus in his left knee, which required surgery — in December.
McCain expressed optimism earlier this month about being ready for the start of training camp. Philadelphia’s media day is tomorrow.
Citing information from InStreetClothes.com, Derek Bodner of PHLY Sports writes that players who suffer a torn UCL during the season typically miss about seven-and-a-half weeks of action (Twitter link). That would theoretically put McCain on track to return in late November.
It’s unclear if McCain’s injury will impact the 76ers’ contract negotiations with restricted free agent guard Quentin Grimes, with the two sides reportedly “very far apart” in talks ahead of the October 1 qualifying offer deadline.
And so it begins again …
trust the process…d’oh!
Grimes leverage has finally ticked up, just in time.
Why…
Embiid setback in 3, 2, 1.
They lose McCain again. And they don’t want to pay Grimes. Maaaann
Crocodile tears lol
Team is cursed. A bunch of other teams have blatantly tanked but bc this franchise coined it as the Process were stuck in Purgatory forever.
Honestly being from Philly they deserve it until they break it all the way down. The whole tanking doesn’t deserve a championship in the end. To me any team taking is committing fraud by purposely adding players on their team that are not NBA players to make sure they lose games and that’s what the sixers did. Got all those pics and is finally coming out. The Jazz are the same way now and they don’t deserve any success either.
The Process was a flawed and incredibly dumb method to try and compete.
Outside of 2 seasons, this team has been horrible and they have nobody to blame but themselves. While Other teams built franchises, Philly always wanted the quick fix and failed to understand that add 3 stars and water approach rarely works out unless its the 2008 Boston Celtics or Lebrons Heat.
Until Philly finally purges the last remaining part of the Process, Embiid, they will never win anything. Morey is still trying to form a team around this flawed concept. Morey is another overrated hack.
Means two months to get in game shape. Well that’s not too bad. Should sign Grimes to get off to a good start. Bad business to low ball Grimes. They easily move him later.
I don’t really think McCain is all that. Good to be honest, he’s an okay player guy. You probably want to come off the bench just to just score some buckets. But it’s already showing that he’s pretty injury prone. Hopefully he stops focusing on tick, tock and focus being an NBA player and working on his body
4 to 6 weeks isn’t too bad and he is able run and stay in shape
It is not catastrophic like the poor fellow in the Movie Sleeper …where only the nose remained and Dr Woody Allen was in charge of surgery
Tear it down and build around Maxey and VJ
This team is cursed, until they get rid of Embiid they will not pass 2nd round ever
Embiid and the Process must be purged…
Living in the hospital.
Aw dude this sucks so much. Not again… He had a promising first season and now he has injuries early, that doesn’t sound good at all, I hope it doesn’t go downhill from here…