News Summary

• The Sixers have ping ponged between the opposite sides of the it’s over/we’re back spectrum all year, never giving fans much time to savor success or drown in their sorrows.
• Their franchise center is hobbled to a near-unplayable state, with Joel Embiid brave enough to play and bold enough to think he can play well but beaten down enough that even his postgame hygiene routines are slower.
• Their All-Star guard is still nursing that hand injury, gunshy from three, and getting blitzed by the Knicks to make anyone else beat them.
• Tyrese Maxey is talking as though being schemed out of the series, relegated to just 12 shot attempts in Game 3, is a simple inevitability.