On Friday night, everything was going perfectly for Doc Rivers’ Sixers (-7.5). Joel Embiid was up to his usual unstoppable ways with a 40-point, 13-rebound, 6-assist line, and Philadelphia was stomping a Clippers squad sans Kawhi Leonard (which isn’t anything new this year as he recovers from a knee injury) and Paul George (a new knee injury).
The Sixers, who’ve had their occasional struggles this year, and who sit at sixth in the NBA’s Eastern Conference, were getting a much-needed victory over a shorthanded squad without its two best players. A 24-point second-half deficit said as much.
Nellie Bly, Ben Franklin, Charlie Day: Rest assured, your Sixers were absolutely incredible.
