by gordie | Apr 29, 2024 | NBA
Having laid waste to the Sixers Sunday afternoon, New York Knicks point guard Jalen Brunson exited the Wells Fargo Center wearing a black sweatsuit (accessorized by black low-top Chucks). Emblazoned on the back of his jacket was this: “It Will Always Be New York or...
by gordie | Apr 15, 2024 | NBA, Philadelphia 76ers
Just before the unveiling of the Allen Iverson statue last Friday in Camden, N.J., Sixers coach Nick Nurse stood at a lectern within the team’s practice facility and addressed Iverson and the large crowd that had gathered. “I’m gonna fight my ass off,” Nurse told the...
by gordie | Apr 13, 2024 | NBA
Allen Iverson’s statue was unveiled Friday afternoon, and right away there were those on the interwebs who decreed that the thing was not nearly grand enough, that it hardly does him justice. The truth is, it is of the same scale as the other nine statues on the...
by gordie | Apr 3, 2024 | NBA
Again and again Sixers forward Kelly Oubre Jr. found the mark in the fourth quarter of Tuesday’s victory over Oklahoma City. Then he did it once more after the game, when asked what it was like to have Joel Embiid back after the reigning NBA MVP had missed two months...
by gordie | Feb 27, 2024 | NBA
Doc Rivers, back in Philadelphia as coach of the Milwaukee Bucks? Oooh, let’s trot out the Bill Hader gifs as we watch those Philly fans sink their fangs into the ex-Sixers coach! Let’s watch Rivers squirm! And, well, meh. The paying customers did in fact boo Rivers...
