If you enjoy watching entertaining, highly competitive basketball games, this week has been tremendous. If you enjoy watching the Philadelphia 76ers win basketball games, this week has been terrible. The Sixers have dropped their last two games to the Clippers and Cavaliers by a combined four points, with both outcomes in doubt until the final seconds. In total, the Sixers have lost three straight and five of their last six games, now 1.5 games back of the Miami Heat for seventh place in the Eastern Conference.
There may be great news on the horizon, however! Some considered this season as good as dead when Joel Embiid when out for meniscus surgery (sorry, procedure, or was it a check-up?