Now, that was fun.
I don’t know about you guys, but I was not expecting much. Even prior to the news that Joel Embiid would be out for last night’s game vs. the Brooklyn Nets, I was having a hard time getting jazzed up about the long-awaited return of Ben Simmons to the Wells Fargo Center court to face off against the Sixers, being that the hometown team was already so undermanned. Philly’s star backcourt of James Harden and Tyrese Maxey is on the shelf until next month. The last thing I wanted was to see Joel on the court as Simmons returns and he and the Nets blowout the Sixers in South Philly and set off a week’s worth of ‘Ben Won the Breakup’ articles to follow.