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Sixers Fans Booed The Shit Out Of Kris Humphries<em></em>
Kris Humphries, Kim Kardashian’s pretend husband for 72 days and a 13-year NBA veteran, is now on the Philadelphia 76ers. The team played its first preseason game in Philly last night, and Humphries got his first action with the squad....
Joel Embiid Is Nailing The Philadelphia Lifestyle<em></em>
Philadelphians are psyched as heck for the Sixers, but the excitement that the city feels for potential superstar Joel Embiid is something even purer and stranger than that....
Maybe Now Is Not Such A Good Time To Remake Your Jumper, Markelle Fultz
A couple days ago Mike Schmitz, formerly of DraftExpress and now of ESPN, tweeted out this interesting, perhaps troubling video of Markelle Fultz shooting free throws during a Sixers training camp practice:...
Ben Simmons Calls Donald Trump An "Idiot" And A "Dickhead"
Pretty much every pro athlete in America is getting asked about Donald Trump these days, and though many have had interesting things to say, few have cut to the chase quite like Ben Simmons:...
76ers Already In Midseason Form
“The process never ends,” said 76ers GM Bryan Colangelo during media day on Monday, and while those words sounded perhaps a bit conservative at the time, now that we’ve gotten a glimpse at his team in practice, Colangelo could be right....
Sixers Corner The Market For NBA Okafors
The Philadelphia 76ers have issued a training-camp invite to veteran center Emeka Okafor. In Philly he will join his distant cousin and fellow center, Jahlil Okafor, to assemble the tallest, greatest, and only pair of oft-injured basketball centers named “Okafor” in the history of the world....
Behold, A Slightly Less Brittle Version Of Joel Embiid
Hey kids, it’s Sixers franchise center Joel Embiid:...
Nerlens Noel Is Taking A Mighty Risk By Signing The Qualifying Offer
ESPN’s Chris Haynes is reporting today that Nerlens Noel will sign the qualifying offer to stay with the Dallas Mavericks, choosing to become an unrestricted free agent in the summer of 2018 instead of signing what he apparently believed was a below-market long-term deal in restricted free agency th...
Sixers Fans Simply Decided The Sixers Are Good Now, And It Worked
I remember it well. I was 16, right at the start of my senior year of high school, and my friends and I drove down to Veterans Stadium to watch the Phillies play the Reds. It may actually have been the first time I went to a Phillies game unaccompanied by my elders. ...
The Sixers Are Now Backing A New Way To Feed Your Cat
When the Sixers announced in 2014 that they’d be building a new practice facility in Camden, N.J.—just across the Delaware from Philadelphia—team president Scott O’Neill was asked if the team was committed to hiring Camden residents for jobs at the building. After all, Camden County NAACP president ...
Joel Embiid Has No Regrets About Saying "Fuck LaVar Ball"
Lovable Sixers center Joel Embiid participated in some sort of panel on Thursday, and he was asked about the fine he received from the NBA for saying “Fuck LaVar Ball” on Instagram. If the original comment wasn’t enough to get you on Team Embiid, this response probably will:...
Lonzo Ball Has Best Game Yet After Ditching Big Baller Brand Sneakers
Lonzo Ball returned to Las Vegas Summer League action last night, but not in his much-ballyhooed Big Baller Brand ZO2s. No, he was wearing a purple pair of Kobe A.D. sneakers. Yes, they kind of look similar to the BBB ZO2....
76ers Shut Down Markelle Fultz Following Ankle Injury
In a continuation of a time-honored Philadelphia tradition, 2017 first overall draft pick and most recent 76ers savior Markelle Fultz will miss early developmental playing time following a lower leg injury....
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Markelle Fultz Leaves Game With Ankle Injury [Update]
The NBA’s #1 overall draft pick left tonight’s game with an ankle injury after the Sixers’ Markelle Fultz found his foot rolling while sliding past teammate Timothe Luwawu-Cabarrot—who himself left the game with a busted and profusely bleeding lip....
Howard Eskin's So Excited About The Sixers' Trade, He Can't Type
What’s your favorite typo in this Howard Eskin tweet that seems like it was composed while the author was falling down the stairs?...
Markelle Fultz Is Excited About Philly Because Of Its Chicken Sandwiches
Markelle Fultz, taken first overall by the Sixers last night, has a column today in The Players’ Tribune. While it doesn’t quite reach the levels of Dion Waiters’s opus in April, it’s pretty good. Fultz shows off some personality. He says Joel Embiid has texted him 75 times since he visited Philly. ...
His Time, But Not His Words
Sounds like this company needs to watch its spokespeople more closely. Ah, well. It’s a Philly sports tradition....
Sam Hinkie Leveraged The Orbit Of The Earth To Effectuate Snow Disruption
It’s been a good week for Sixers fans. The team used just one first-rounder from its draft-pick surplus to move up to the No. 1 spot in the NBA Draft, where it will take Markelle Fultz. That gives the team a young corps of Fultz, Ben Simmons, Dario Šarić, and, of course, Joel Embiid. No one really k...
If The Process Had Results, It Wouldn't Be The Process<em></em>
The Process is a success....
Reports: Celtics Will Trade 2017 First Overall Draft Pick To Philadelphia
According to multiple reports, the Celtics have agreed to trade the number one overall pick in Thursday’s NBA draft to the Philadelphia 76ers, clearing the way for the Sixers to finally add a guard—any guard, please God let it be a guard—to their young core. The Sixers are expected to use the first ...