Several times this young season, 76ers' Coach Maurice Cheeks has limited his substitution rotation to eight players. In each of those cases, none of those players was named Rodney Carney.

At a time when the Sixers, with the arrival of new President/General Manager Eddie Stefanski, are again re-evaluating their assets, Carney has been all but locked to the bench. When he played 7 minutes, 59 seconds on Saturday night, he was the fifth of seven reserves to make an appearance. He had not played at all in four of the previous five games.

Asked about his situation late last week, Carney said, "I don't know what's going on at all. I was doing good, told [in training camp] I was competing for a starting job. From there, I've gone to not playing at all."