There won’t be songs written about beating a last-place Detroit Pistons team on a cold December night (although if you do, hit me up @PhillyFastBreak on the bird app, love to hear it), but every win counts the same in the 82-game slog known as the NBA regular season. So the Philadelphia 76ers winning their sixth straight game Wednesday night, 113-93, is notable not so much for their coming out victorious, but more so because it was a fairly rare stress-free contest in which the Sixers did not play down to their competition.
A big reason Philadelphia was able to cruise to the win was the play of the bench, which not only kept the team afloat but extended the lead during their time on the court.