Honey, I Swallowed the Clickbait: Here’s Where the Inquirer’s List of the 50 Greatest Sixers is Lacking

by gordie | Apr 20, 2022 | NBA

Rare is the day when the 76ers don’t give us something to fret about, but here we are. And here they are, up 2-0 against Toronto in their first-round playoff series. Joel Embiid is playing Gulliver to the Raptors’ Lilliputians (while “respectfully” giving Nick Nurse...

Rams Reaped the Benefits of Management’s Boldness; Can the 76ers Do the Same?

by gordie | Feb 14, 2022 | NBA

On Sunday night, we were reminded anew of the value of sports franchises taking big swings, when the Los Angeles Rams beat the Cincinnati Bengals to win the Super Bowl. The victory came not quite 11 months after the Rams traded their previous starting quarterback,...

Where Ben Simmons is Concerned, it’s Time for the Sixers to Push All their Chips Into the Middle of the Table

by gordie | Feb 7, 2022 | NBA

Free Ben Simmons. Please, please, please free Ben Simmons. What’s that? You say that Brooklyn Nets coach Steve Nash said Sunday that his team wasn’t going to trade veteran guard James Harden, the Sixers’ apparent target in a Simmons trade? And that ESPN’s Adrian...

Bill Walton’s Long, Strange Trip: Unbelievable, in a Great Many Ways

by gordie | Oct 25, 2021 | NBA

The night of November 10, 1992, Bill Walton — raconteur, retired basketball star and renowned Deadhead (not necessarily in that order) — gave an address in Franklin & Marshall College’s Hensel Hall (now the Barshinger Center). It was followed by a...

Looming Large in Lititz: The Day, 60 Years Ago, When Wilt Came to Town

by gordie | Oct 11, 2021 | NBA

One October day 60 years ago, a man named Tom Clausen happened to see Wilt Chamberlain emerge from a restaurant. Which is not surprising, given that Wilt was (shall we say) a man of enormous appetites. The greater surprise was that the restaurant was in Lititz. Wilt...

Brett Brown Reflects on Sixers’ Tenure, Redick’s Retirement, While Mulling NBA Return

by gordie | Sep 26, 2021 | NBA, Philadelphia 76ers

Brett Brown, walking by himself in the Maine woods when he was reached by phone last Friday afternoon, pronounced himself “slightly beneath outstanding.” “Just a little bit,” the 76ers’ former coach said. “Just a sliver.” A slivah, in Brown’s distinctive New...