The 76ers entered tonight’s game against the Denver Nuggets 1-7 in games without Joel Embiid. But you probably knew that, and that the Sixers have had a propensity to blow second half leads leading to that poor record, coupling back-breaking decisions with untimely shooting spurts from opposing teams. The blown lead tendency has crept into games where Embiid plays, also, and it’s left Sixers fans wondering how much more painful losing we’d have to endure.
The team’s performance down the stretch tonight was uninspiring at best, panic-driven at worst, but Denver performed equally poorly due to some poor shooting from basically every Nugget and timely defense from Robert Covington, Dario Saric, and Ben Simmons to swarm Nikola Jokic and grab defensive rebounds.