There are a lot of ways to interpret what the Sixers have shown over the first four games of their first-round series against the Miami Heat. But one thing is clear: Tuesday’s potential Game 5 clincher at the Wells Fargo Center is no longer the prize it might have seemed throughout much of the regular season. Suddenly, the challenge isn’t to identify the reasons the Sixers are a legitimate NBA Finals threat, but the reasons they aren’t.
This is a reality that JJ Redick spoke about on Monday afternoon before ducking into a film session that Brett Brown held at the start of practice.