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Matisse Thybulle is an absolute game wrecker: here are 7 reasons why he needs more playing time Share this story Photo by Tim Nwachukwu/Getty Images The Sixers have a vicious seven game slate which will inevitably reveal a ton about about how viable a title contender they truly are. It may also give us a few more clues about Doc Rivers’ playoff rotation. Not all of the following points will relate directly to Matisse Thybulle himself. But I hope by the end, I’ll have made a decent case for ...

Sixers arrive back home ready to face league-worst Wolves Share this story Photo by Hannah Foslien/Getty Images At long last, the Sixers’ six-game road trip is complete. While fans are surely happy to return to watching games without disrupting their sleep schedule, the trip itself was a successful one for Philadelphia. Doc Rivers’ club went 4-2, with the only blemishes coming against Western Conference contenders Denver and the Los Angeles Clippers. Considering Joel Embiid was unavailable ...

The Good • One guy basically kept Philadelphias offense going during a first half that featured ugly shooting and a decent number of turnovers: Tobias Harris. Harris was their lone floor spacing option for basically the entire first half, and in conjunction with some aggressive moves to the basket, he provided enough to help the Sixers hang around in spite of downright terrible execution on the offensive end. There appeared to be a bit of personal juice to this game for Harris, who was in com...

That doesnt mean we cant learn a little something about how these two teams match up from their first meeting of the season, one that finds the Embiid-less Sixers as six-point home underdogs, according to Pa.Unibet.com. Both rosters have undergone fairly significant changes since they last met in late February 2020 — boy, that feels like a lifetime ago — with both teams swapping out starters and the Sixers undergoing a dramatic transformation off of the floor. So while we must wait on the t...

An updated look at the ranking of the Top 5 defenders in the NBA.

The Sixers sleptwalk through a Saturday night date with the Cavs, and they paid for it with a loss.

The Sixers did their best to overcome a hot shooting night from the Blazers, but they fell just short in the end because of a Tobias Harris foul with time running down.

The script has become pretty familiar at this point. An opposing perimeter player gets going in the first half, leading to questions about Doc Rivers' choice to stick Ben Simmons on a relatively harmless assignment. Then the second half comes around, Simmons is put on the top option for the other team, and offensive momentum screeches to a halt, with Simmons jamming up the gears and the complementary players around him sliding into roles befitting their talent.

The Sixers got smoked by the Blazers despite 37 points from Joel Embiid on Thursday night, with the rest of the team struggling to get it going all night.

Photo by Nathaniel S. Butler/NBAE via Getty Images You get the losses you deserve. The Brooklyn Nets had the lead for most of the game on Sunday night, but tricked it off and lost an embarrassing one to the Washington Wizards. The L stopped their four game winning streak and has led to a new round of questions that the team will need to answer in a hurry. The opponent on the other side will be the Los Angeles Clippers. They have a lot to prove and have been one of the best teams in the Associa...