As Sixers keep running into the bizarre, Maxey thinks they’re ‘slowly but surely figuring it out’

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As Sixers keep running into the bizarre, Maxey thinks they’re ‘slowly but surely figuring it out’ originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia

If there’s a trend with this Sixers season through 27 games, it’s apparently that nothing lasts for long.

Joel Embiid alone has suffered a sinus fracture, been sidelined by left knee swelling and gotten suspended for shoving a columnist in the Sixers’ locker room. He was ejected Monday night in an especially surreal win over the Spurs.

The Sixers began the evening down two players in Jared McCain (left lateral meniscus surgery) and Eric Gordon (oral surgery).

By the fourth quarter, five Sixers were out, since Embiid was tossed and Andre Drummond (left big toe contusion) and KJ Martin (left foot soreness) had their nights end early. Drummond first got ejected in the second quarter by umpire Jenna Schroeder in a circus-like officiating sequence, then was called back from the tunnel to the court.

There was drama everywhere you looked Monday and deep detail may not even be worthwhile. As Sixers head coach Nick Nurse said when asked about themes to the series before his team’s Game 6 playoff loss last year to the Knicks, “I’ve decided nothing matters.”

Nihilistic or not, Nurse knows permanence and normalcy have tended to be absent for the Sixers.

“It seems like the strangeness of the season keeps working its way into things,” he said after beating San Antonio and improving to 10-17 this year.

“Over the last 10 or 12 games, we’ve played pretty well in most of them. Whatever happens, we just kind of keep on going. We ended up losing three guys in the end. Joel, Drum and KJ were all out of the game late, so we were obviously really small playing there. … We matched (Guerschon Yabusele) with (Victor Wembanyama’s) minutes in the second half. That was kind of the only big man left. We almost went to (rookie center Adem Bona) a couple times, but they just went so small that we decided to stay small.”

Yabusele scored 17 points and rose to the occasion defensively against his 7-foot-3 teammate on France’s silver medal Olympics team.

“I would say me playing…

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Publish date : 2024-12-24 15:18:00

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