These partially clothed ladies are part of the Sixers dance team, who, even though they’re more modest than other NBA dance troupes, have remarkably advanced to the Final Four in NBA.com’s Dance Team Bracket.

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The Philadelphia 76ers are pulling a card out of the Eagles’ hat when it comes to honoring ex-player accomplishments: They won’t.

Sixers chairman Ed Snider has decided not to lay it on for current Denver Nuggets guard Allen Iverson tonight when A.I. returns to Philly for the first time since being traded 15 months ago. There will no video montage or special speeches, only the typical pre-game announcement of opposing players.

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Following through on a new media blitz promise to reach out to blogs, Sixers GM Ed Stefanski got grilled by Philadelphia’s sports-junkie paisan, The 700 Level’s Enrico Campitelli. Stefanski answered the questions as honestly as possible and admitted that no one on the current very young Sixers roster is untouchable.

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Remember just a few weeks ago when blogger Depressed Fan was granted an interview with new Sixers GM Ed Stefanski? Well, congratulations, Philly sports geeks, you can expect more of that in the near future. (more…)

Granted, the Sixers aren’t having the most memorable season, but the one great takeaway so far is this: They’re not the New York Knicks. The venerable organization’s ongoing publicity nightmare since, oh, Isiah Thomas arrived, has spawned plenty of stories detailing just how horrible it is to be associated with this team in any way. Even the press corps is just miserable.

No wonder, then, that our February article “Larry in Winter”, by Anthony Gargano, — in which the former Sixers (and Knicks!) coach offers even more enlightenment about the depressing atmosphere in Knickerbockerland — has been a goldmine for sports pages everywhere today. (It’s fun and easy to hate the Knicks.) The Times, the N.Y. Post and the N.Y. Daily News all hopped on the Philly Mag story, especially Brown’s claims that there were MSG “spies” everywhere he went.

Perhaps even more interesting, though, might be the piece’s new look at the prickly love/hate relationship between the coach and his most famous student, Allen Iverson:

Is it any wonder that Brown says if he were to write his memoirs, the title would be “I’ve Been Motherfucked 1,200 Times”? Because, he says, he coached Allen Iverson for 600 games, took him out of a game two times, and both times, Iverson called him a motherfucker 600 times.

And, to think, that experience was still 1,000 times better than working for the Knicks.

Larry in Winter [Philadelphia magazine]
Larry Brown + Knicks [Google]

Brooklyn-based blogger (and diehard Sixers, Eagles and, erm, YANKEES?! fan) “Depressed Fan” recently did his usual bang-up job dissecting new Sixers GM Ed Stefanski’s first trade of popular shooting guard Kyle Korver, which resulted in an unexpected invitation from the Sixers PR department: You wanna interview Big Ed?

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The Inquirer reports that the death of the Wachovia Spectrum — the other, more historic arena in South Philly, now mostly used for Philadelphia Phantoms games, monster truck events and bands that couldn’t sell out the Wachovia Center — could be announced as early as next month.

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Phil Jasner writes about shaggy-haired ex-Sixer three-baller Kyle Korver’s new digs in Utah, and the big-time welcome he received. Korver, arguably the most popular Sixer in town thanks to his Kutcher-like looks and nice-guy persona, was also going to be grossly overpaid as a perimeter guy for the Sixers. Tonight, he’ll face his ex-team in front of his new, enthusiastic home crowd.

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