It’s been just over a month since a four-team trade sent Matisse Thybulle from the Philadelphia 76ers to the Portland Trail Blazers. The Sixers acquired Jalen McDaniels from the Charlotte Hornets in the deal.
Friday night saw Thybulle return to the Wells Fargo Center, a place he called home for three years, for the first time as the opponent.
Prior to his return to South Philadelphia, Thybulle told Keith Pompey of the Philadelphia Inquirer that the contrast between playing for the Sixers and for the Trail Blazers has been a difference in opportunity, and that he felt that “there was a lot more fear-based play in Philadelphia as opposed to what I’m doing here in Portland.