As you’ve probably heard the Sixers have the easiest remaining schedule in the NBA based on their upcoming opponent’s winning percentage, and while they have clinched the playoffs, they still trail the Brooklyn Nets by one game in the standings which will determine home court throughout the Eastern Conference playoffs. What’s it all mean? It means that the schedule is now riddled with “trap games.” It’s perhaps tempting for the 76ers to take their foot off the pedal after throttling a team by 44 points! But they cannot afford to do that. Not with so much at stake.
So you can bet your buttons that the team’s head coach is urging his players not to take the franchise that once drafted Doc Rivers 31st overall in 1983 for granted.