On Saturday morning, the Sixers wrapped up their preseason trip to Abu Dhabi with the second of two exhibitions against the New York Knicks. The team will soon return home, with close to a full week of practice availability before their next preseason contest on Oct. 10. He neared 1,000 minutes by the end of the campaign, as player development became the Sixers' focus. During the preseason, his role is to help the Sixers get through games with enough viable ball-handling. After the Sixers selected Broome, draft expert Maxwell Baumbach expressed optimism to PhillyVoice about his ability to coexist with Embiid at the four.