Joel Embiid will be listed as questionable for tomorrow night’s game against the Warriors. He’s got a scheduled meeting with a hand surgeon before tipoff to determine the status of his previously dislocated finger.

Zhaire Smith will also be listed as questionable after hurting his ankle on Saturday night, while Ben Simmons is cleared to play after getting a tooth knocked out and receiving treatment following the win over the Lakers.

That was the only news to come out of Monday’s practice session, as the topic of Kobe Bryant’s death appropriately dominated media availability.

Al Horford, the eldest member of the Sixers’ squad, played nine seasons with the Hawks leading up to Bryant’s 2016 retirement. He said this about Kobe’s competitive spirit:

Tobias Harris echoed those sentiments, noting that he modeled his work ethic after Bryant’s:

Brett Brown had plenty of thoughtful things to say about Bryant, noting that he was responsible for scouting the Lakers during the many years he worked under Gregg Popovich out in San Antonio.

He shared this story about a conversation with Bryant that took place during his 2016 farewell tour:

For me, this is my 20th year in the NBA, 15 of those years I had to game plan against him. I coached against him in the London Olympic games, where they beat (us) to advance to a gold medal. I had the privilege to coach him, with Pop, as Pop’s assistant, in two NBA All-Star games. I had the chance a few years ago, during his farewell tour, to sit in my office for 45 minutes alone and just talk Philly hoops. Ironically, my son goes to Lower Merion High School. He plays for his high school coach. The thing that came out of that for me, it was such an easy and real conversation. He cared, he was engaged, it wasn’t something he had to do, but he just came back and talked. We had some friends and experiences in the Olympics and so on that we could talk about, but he talked a lot about his family. And he blew me away when I said ‘what’s life for you afterwards?’ and he started talking about animation. He was really involved with animation and he had this desire to get involved with kids’ literacy and the connections he had with his Hollywood and his Los Angeles life. He just was in the game, even when he was about to leave the game. He lived life, and you could see it in his face, he had a glow.

Brown went on to say that he believes the Sixers’ tribute to Bryant Tuesday night will be a little more significant, or at least should be, because of Kobe’s Philadelphia roots and his time at Lower Merion.