Last April, it felt like Tyrese Maxey was in the middle of a star turn.
He dropped 38 points in his first playoff start in Game 1 against the Raptors, becoming the youngest Sixer to ever drop 30 in a playoff game. The only players younger than Maxey, who was 21 at the time, to score 38 in a playoff game: Magic Johnson and LeBron James.
That day, Maxey had 20,000 people chanting his name.
Fast forward to now and Maxey hasn’t been able to build on his promising second season. An injury robbed him of 18 straight games just as he was starting to find his groove.