Tonight, the Sixers will welcome LeBron James, Anthony Davis and the defending champion Los Angeles Lakers to the friendly confines of the Wells Fargo Center in South Philadelphia for a heavyweight matchup on ESPN.
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Opportunity is not a lengthy visitor
If you navigate over to the quite-active Twitter account of the Sixers’ President of Basketball Operations, Daryl Morey, you can do a great deal of inferring. Throughout the on-again-off-again, will-they-won’t-they dalliance between Morey’s new franchise and his former (the Houston Rockets) in negotiating for the services of superstar guard James Harden, fans and media alike spent lots of time and energy jumping to conclusions based on Morey’s recently ‘liked’ tweets.
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6 Takeaways from the Sixers’ first 6 games
Things are off to a rip-roaring start for Doc Rivers’ Sixers in his first season as head coach in Philadelphia. The Sixers are 5-1, with wins over Washington, New York, Toronto, Orlando and Charlotte. The team’s lone loss was an ugly, Joel Embiid-less blowout at the hands of the Cleveland Cavaliers.
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Matisse Thybulle’s value to the Sixers could skyrocket in a hurry
The James Harden-to-Philly rumors will not subside any time soon, it seems. This, from The New York Times’ Marc Stein was the most potent update on the subject in days.
The Sixers, publicly, continue to toe the party line. Doc Rivers recently dismissed the rumors, and for now, the team is continuing to state via various leaks in the press that Rivers and Sixers President of Basketball Operations Daryl Morey are content with the roster they’ve assembled and are eager to see it in action once the season starts.
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The Sixers have amassed a team full of guys with something to prove
We’ve reached the point in the offseason when optimism is cresting for most fanbases. Media week was upon us, and every team either had a sunny outlook on their odds of winning big this season or hope for the future. Player after player talked about the work they put in since the bubble ended, and a record-high number of players claim to be in the best shape of their lives. Fans everywhere are atwitter at the notion of their team having what it takes. Everyone is undefeated.
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