The Sixers’ practice facility on the waterfront in Camden, New Jersey, is state of the art and one of the best in the league. It’s befitting of a leading MVP candidate, a former MVP and the other talented players that have come through it.
It wasn’t that long that the Sixers didn’t have a facility of their own. They held workouts in the cramped gym of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine — or PCOM, to those in the know.
It was there where several of us got our first look at Joel Embiid as an NBA player.