When the NBA stripped the Sixers of a second-round pick for tampering with Danuel House Jr. ahead of free agency, it looked like a critical own-goal for a team woefully devoid of assets. House spent most of the regular season on the fringes of Doc Rivers’ rotation, playing only 807 total minutes across 56 appearances.
But after House’s heroics in the Sixers’ Game 5 beatdown of the Boston Celtics in the Eastern Conference Semifinals on Tuesday night, the Sixers are likely saying “f—k them picks.”
After largely being limited to garbage time throughout the Sixers’ first eight playoff games, House came in for a four-minute stint at the very end of the first quarter through the early portion of the second.