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Every player in Philadelphia 76ers history who has worn No. 42

Here is a list of every player in the long history of the Philadelphia 76ers who has worn the No. 42 uniform.

It’s summertime in the NBA, so now is the time to learn some history. The Philadelphia 76ers are one of the older franchises in the NBA. Their history dates to the 1949-50 season.

With that longevity, the team has had hundreds of players come through the City of Brotherly Love. Sixers Wire looks at the No. 42, which has been worn by 12 of those players in the history of the franchise.

This running series that will go through all of the uniform numbers worn in franchise history. The previous edition of this series was a list compiling the four players who have worn the No. 43.

Here is the list of those 12 players who have worn No. 43 in Sixers history:

The first indication that he had a …

The first indication that he had a heart problem came at a screening the NBA Players Association and NBA Retired Players Association began, in the wake of the deaths of Caldwell Jones, who passed in 2014, and former Rockets great Moses Malone and Darryl Dawkins, who passed away within three weeks of each other in 2015. Since the program started, more than 500 players have been screened. As much good as it has done — expanding to an assortment of tests and even orthopedic imaging, and players have been found to have an array of issues that might have gone unnoticed — Catchings said the free testing wasn’t as big of a hit as he thought it would be.

“Believe it or not, we still couldn’t …

“Believe it or not, we still couldn’t get guys to show up for the tests,” Catchings said. “Guys would say something like, ‘Well, I already got it. Ain’t nothing going to change, so no need in me dealing with it,’ which is ludicrous. We had one guy who came in and they immediately sent him to the hospital because he had some health challenges.”