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Daniel Theis followed up his 23-point, 10 rebound-performance on Wednesday night with seven points and two rebounds in 24 minutes last night in a loss to the Philadelphia 76ers. Coming off the bench for the Boston Celtics, he failed to make much of a splash against the Sixers even with Joel Embiid on the sidelines.
In fact, Dwight Howard dominated Theis in the paint, to the tune of 12 rebounds in 18 minutes in the 122-110 loss.
No knock on Howard–who was an integral member of the 2019-20 Los Angeles Lakers NBA Championship team–but the backup big man on a contender shouldn’t be that thoroughly outplayed by the former All-NBA center at this stage of his career.