On Friday, the NBA released the eight-game slates for each of the 22 teams that will soon head to Orlando to comprise the league’s ‘bubble,’ in an effort to resume and conclude the 2019-20 season.
The schedule for the Sixers:
Quickly, the league’s writers ran the analytics on exactly which teams got the cushiest schedules. The Sixers, it seems, got lucky.
Of course — as anyone who had the misfortune of watching this Sixers team prior to the shutdown knows — playing bad teams certainly does not guarantee a schedule full of easy wins. Time and again, this team played down to their competition amidst the malaise of the regular season.