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76ers Now Trading for Players They Plan to Cut

Remember when everybody got cranky because the Sixers traded for Andrew Bynum, and he ended up never playing a game due to knee injuries? The Sixers […]

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Sixers Mocked in Taiwanese Animation

Next Media Animation, a jokey Taiwanese animated news service that first came to prominence for its Tiger Woods reenactment in 2009, has weighed in on […]

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Will Joel Embiid’s Basketball Game Be as Good as His Twitter Game?

Plenty of Sixers fans were disappointed when the team drafted Joel Embiid with the No. 3 pick in the NBA Draft earlier this year. Embiid, […]

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The Sixers Are Mad That the NBA Wants Them to Stop Losing So Damned Much

You know what was fun about this most recent Sixers season? Not a damn thing. The team was built to lose, accomplished its mission, and […]

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Ex-Sixers GM: ‘Girls in Philly Wanted to Kill Me’ When I Traded Kyle Korver

ESPN’s Grantland has an engaging profile of ex-Sixers guard Kyle Korver today, which speaks of the NBA sharpshooter as one of the NBA’s more underrated […]

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Would the “Hometown Sixers,” an NBA Team of Philly Natives, Be Any Good?

LeBron is back home in Cleveland as its homecoming King, and that got Elite Daily thinking — what would happen if every NBA team was […]

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Joel Embiid’s Foot Surgeon: It’s Possible He Could Play for Sixers This Season

The Inquirer‘s Mike Sielski has an interview with surgeon Richard Ferkel, aka the guy who operated on Sixers’ No. 3 pick Joel Embiid’s balky foot, in […]

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Nerlens Noel Finally Plays a Game for the Sixers (Kind Of)

I enjoy NBA summer league basketball immensely. I like basketball, of course, and will watch it when I get the chance to. But there’s more: […]

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Report: Sixers Engaged in Trade Talks for Jeremy Lin

The Sixers are attempting to pry Jeremy Lin away from the Houston Rockets, according to a report from Liberty Ballers Jake L. Fischer. Lin will […]

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Joel Embiid May Not Play for the Sixers This Season, But He’s Already A Good Teammate

Not sure about his foot, but Sixers fans should love Joel Embiid’s personality:

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Sixers’ Draft Makes It Seem Like They’ll Be Tanking Again Next Season

As a fan, you want to believe the Sixers did this draft right. But it’s hard. This is Philadelphia, after all, and you’ve gotten burned […]

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Sixers Take Embiid: What They’re Saying

As you know by now, the Sixers used the third pick of the NBA Draft on Thursday night to pick Joel Embiid, the injured freshman […]

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Sixers Fans: Beware a Wiggins/Embiid Combo

On my very first day in Philly, I walked into the office of an editor who greeted me with a quick question: “What do Philadelphia […]

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Today We Find Out if the Sixers Tank Job in 2013-14 Was Worth It

“After months of waiting, of watching countless highlight videos on YouTube, of reading mock drafts hosted on websites you didn’t even know existed, draft day […]

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Doctor Warns Sixers Not to Take Embiid

Count George Stollsteimer as an opponent of the Sixers taking Joel Embiid in this week’s NBA draft. Embiid recently underwent foot surgery, and Stollsteimer — a […]