Three Wildcats headlined NBA Opening Night but none were able to come away with the victory. In the Western Conference, Anthony Davis and Wenyen Gabriel of the Los Angeles Lakers fell to the 2022 NBA champion Golden State Warriors. In the East, Tyrese Maxey and the Philadelphia 76ers fell to last year’s Eastern Conference champion Boston Celtics.
Maxey Starts and Leads Sixers in Minutes in Debut
Tyrese Maxey was the talk of the Philidelphia 76ers’ offseason. The general consensus around the league was that a Maxey breakout was imminent.