It’s All Coming Together for the Embiid, Sixers
Joel Embiid continues to put up MVP numbers. Tyrese Maxey develops a new facet to his game every day. Tobias “Don’t Clap” Harris has recovered from his COVID bout and is back to taking control of the offense.
Most excitingly, the Sixers got rid of a malcontent and added a former MVP, James Harden.
The Philadelphia 76ers have come a long way this season. In their last game before the NBA’s All-Star Break, the Sixers bested the reigning champions, the Milwaukee Bucks in a game that went down to the wire. Going into the NBA’s all-star break, the Sixers are now the 3rd seed in the Eastern Conference. The first and second seed, the Heat and Bulls respectively, are tied with 38 wins and 21 losses each. The Sixers are tied with the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Milwaukee Bucks at 2.5 games out from first seed. The Eastern conference race is a very tight one- there’s just as much room to descend as there is to elevate. But looking back at the events of the last few seasons, Sixers fans can’t help but feel It’s all coming together.
Past Missteps of the Embiid Era
The Sixers organization has fancied itself as a “championship contenders” since 2019 but then made perplexing and costly decisions that took them further away from the goal and wasted seasons of Joel Embiid’s career. Mistakes like:
- offering a max extension contract to a player with known attitude issues and no offensive improvement in three year
- signing Josh Richardson and Al Harford, an old school center, to play along Joel Embiid
- prioritizing a transition coach and a postseason ghost over one of the best playoff performers the Sixers had seen in a decade
could have easily sank the Sixers’ prospects, sentencing them to a treadmill of mediocrity. But it seems, at long last, the Sixers are on a path to true contention.
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