<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>DURHAM, N.C. - The beginning of a new season always brings a certain level of excitement, but the 76ers will be a lot more enthusiastic when the first few days of training camp are completed.</p> That's because the Sixers began the 2007-08 season yesterday by doing all those fun things such as running suicides and working on defensive drills.</p> Sixers sharpshooter Kyle Korver was so exhausted that he didn't even apply his specialty - hoisting jump shots - following the three-hour first practice.</p> "My dogs are barking and feet hurting," Korver said afterward. "You can get ready for training camp all you want, but actual training camp practice, you don't do that in the offseason. Everybody is a little sore."</p> Not as sore as the players' and coaches' feelings after seeing the preseason predictions, but that's a story for another day.</p> This was about getting the team together and finding out what type of shape they were in, then running them into the ground.</p> "It was great to get back," said coach Maurice Cheeks, knowing that he didn't have to do any of the running.</p> Most of the team didn't ease into the first workout at Cameron Indoor Stadium.</p> "We tried to do some things to get the legs under you," Cheeks said. "No matter what you do, you can never do enough [to prepare] for camp."</p> The third-year Sixers coach said he was pleased with the overall conditioning of the team. Cheeks cited Andre Iguodala, Andre Miller and Lou Williams for their level of conditioning.</p> Of course, one of the tales of this training camp will be the recovery from a stress fracture in his left foot by Samuel Dalembert.</p> The injury was diagnosed after the Sixers center competed in his last game for the Canadian National team in the Olympic qualifying tournament, on Aug. 30</p> Dalembert had been in a cast, then a boot. The boot was removed Monday and he took part in a limited role during yesterday's practice.</p> "I feel a little sore right now," Dalembert said. "I had to give it a good test and was very happy at what I saw."</div></p> Source: Philly.com</p>
