When watching through the beer goggles of disillusionment supplied by the Sixers’ maddening 65 regular season games, it became difficult to properly judge the team’s players in a vacuum.
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Looking Back on This Season's Sixers-Celtics Matchups
If, by some miracle, the 2019-20 NBA season should resume, the league would likely have to begin with either the start of the playoffs, or a handful of regular season games in order to satiate the financial desires of the home arenas.
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Exclusive Interview with Sixers In-Arena Host Christian Crosby
I’ve found that this quarantine can wear on you. We are living in a surreal, emotional and uncertain time. Nearly everything has shut down, and most of us have been separated from family, friends, and work for an undetermined amount of time.
Every day is basically the same.
It’s like that movie Groundhog Day, if Groundhog Day were a movie about Bill Murray exhausting the true-crime documentary dropdown on Netflix.
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Interview with 'Tanking to the Top' Author Yaron Weitzman
Midday on Monday, March 9, 2020, Bleacher Report scribe and newly minted author Yaron Weitzman was kind enough to make time to speak with me on the phone. At this point, the NBA’s league office, board of governors and collective ownership counsel were merely in the fact-finding stage about what (if any) precautions needed to be taken as the virus COVID-19 (coronavirus) gradually spread. There were disparate murmurs of the potentiality of NBA games taking place without any fans in the crowd, if the virus continued to spread and large group gatherings became strictly prohibited. This was long before the Utah Jazz-Oklahoma City Thunder game was halted moments prior to tip-off, long before Rudy Gobert and then Donovan Mitchell were diagnosed with coronavirus, long before this:
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Exclusive Interview with 76ers PA Announcer Matt Cord
It’s 6:30 PM on Tuesday, December 10. I’m standing in the concourse of the Wells Fargo Center — by the Shake Shack, to be precise. Peering left and right as if I’m preparing to cross the street, I’m searching for the subject of tonight’s pregame interview. Out of a throng of Sixers fans, he emerges: 76ers PA announcer Matt Cord. He welcomes me with an easy smile and a handshake before ushering me through the hallways and down to the scorers table. Among fans, Cord goes largely unnoticed by sight — little do they know that he’s the man whose voice they’ve imitated and adored for over two decades on South Broad Street. Among fellow Sixers and arena staffers, Cord is well-liked and well-respected. He shows me to his cubicle: the scorers table nestled between the home and away benches at center court. There, Matt Cord has not only bore witness to, but narrated some of the Sixers’ most joyous and painful moments of the last 20 years, as his deep timbre echoed off the walls of the building, and into the hearts of 20,000 Sixers fans on a nightly basis.
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