11:10 am ET Tim BontempsESPN Philadelphia 76ers star Joel Embiid will sit down Sunday afternoon against the Oklahoma City Thunder with stiff calves. The Sixers said before the scrimmage that Embiid began to feel calf tension during Friday’s 90-83 victory over Memphis in Philadelphia’s first action in the NBA bubble …
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6:38 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN Philadelphia 76ers coach Brett Brown said Thursday that Ben Simmons has had a “paradigm shift” in his thinking about taking 3s. Simmons wasted no time proving that his coach was right. Playing in a new position, with breakthrough power, as part of Philadelphia’s new starting …
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NBA basketball is back, at least in the form of scrimmage The 22 teams on the Walt Disney World campus participate in a week of exhibits before the season officially kicks off on July 30 at Disney’s ESPN Wide World of Sports complex in Orlando, Florida. Each team will play …
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I only had one thing to say By the time the NBA plays its first games in Orlando, it will be nearly five months since the Louisville police shot and killed Breonna Taylor, 26, at her home. The cops who shot him remain free, and Sixers forward Tobias Harris doesn’t …
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LAGO BUENA VISTA, Fla. – The NBA MVP career is over. This is the battle for any other regular season individual trophy. The league told teams on Friday that none of the qualifying games will be considered for any postseason awards, and that voting for those honors, such as All-NBA, …
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