The Sixers are playing great. The team is 15-6 following a rollicking comeback win on the road in Indiana with Joel Embiid sitting out as he nurses a sore back. They’ve won three straight, and 8 of their last 10 games. When the team’s starting 5 plays, the Sixers have gone 11-0. The team is 14-2 in games Joel Embiid plays. The vibes are great, the team seems to genuinely get along and has played extremely well together. Critics may point to the team’s largely cushy strength of schedule as a reason for its inflating winning percentage, but I think that would be reductive in this case. 21 games is a hearty sample size in a 72-game season, and the Sixers have conquered the true tests on the schedule thus far.
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