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Embiid and Harden looked incredible together. NBA beware.

In his Philadelphia debut, Harden turned in an impressive offensive performance as the Sixers blew out the Timberwolves.

As his team finishes decompressing amid this weeklong All-Star break, Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra appreciates that it soon will be time to recompress.

CLEVELAND — Ben Simmons got his wish when the 76ers traded him to the Brooklyn Nets on Feb. 10. Yet his decision not to play for the Sixers until he was moved despite being in the second year of a $177 million contract extension remains a hot topic.

In a season the Miami Heat have battled attrition, absence and ailment to climb to the top of the standings at the All-Star break, an inconvenient truth appears to have entered the equation:

CLEVELAND — Joel Embiid arrived at All-Star Weekend at the top of the race for the NBA’s Most Valuable Player award. And when asked to make his case at Saturday’s Media Day, the 76ers’ center said “the way I’ve been playing speaks for itself.”

PHILADELPHIA — The long local nightmare is over. James Harden has arrived. Ben Simmons has left. And if you’ve paid any attention to social media and the currents and eddies of public discussion about the 76ers-Nets trade that shook the NBA last week, you know that, once more, a Philadelphia-related…

MILWAUKEE — Maybe it was just a severe case of the Getting Caught Up in the James Harden Hysteria blues.

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