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Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo is one of the front runners in the NBA regular season MVP race. Giannis, along with Joel Embiid and Nikola Jokic, is one of the most discussed candidates for the award. Despite his dominating performance in recent years, former NBA player and current ESPN analyst JJ Redick put other players […]

Regardless of whether he wins the award this year or not, Joel Embiid is the MVP for the Philadelphia 76ers franchise. But the man himself credits another All-Star for getting him to where he is today: Andrew Wiggins of the Golden State Warriors. Joel Embiid was candid in a recent appearance on The Old Man […]

In what was projected to be an easy victory by most, the Philadelphia 76ers fell flat on their face on Thursday night against the Detroit Pistons. Joel Embiid posted his usual MVP-level stat line with 37 points and 15 rebounds on an efficient 11-for-19 from the field and 14-for-16 from the free throw line. But […]

Joel Embiid believes he’s done enough this season to be crowned MVP. Just because the Philadelphia 76ers superstar is of the opinion he deserves the league’s highest individual honor, though, hardly means he’s decrying other top-tier candidates for the award while making his case. Embiid, in fact, has long made a habit of showering his luminaries […]

The Philadelphia 76ers have spent the better part of a decade in a giant rebuild. The roster reconstruction, also known as “The Process,” is centered around Joel Embiid and the team’s journey to a championship title. Embiid has been a part of “The Process” since the Sixers drafted him third overall in 2014. In the […]

Jayson Tatum has catapulted himself in the MVP conversation with his monstrous play for the Boston Celtics this second half of the season. While the star forward knows it might be a little late for him to make a stronger push for the award, he knows he is more than capable of getting the job […]

The Philadelphia 76ers are in an undeniably much better place right now than they were a couple of months back. The Sixers were winning games but a huge, Ben Simmons-sized cloud was looming over the entire team as the front office tried to find a way to get rid of their disgruntled star. This finally […]

Throughout all the drama leading up to Ben Simmons’ exit from the Philadelphia 76ers, it just felt like he was burning bridges. He had no intention of playing for the Sixers ever again and he was not afraid to make his feelings known about it. One of the biggest storylines surrounding Simmons’ ugly divorce from […]

Joel Embiid has spent the past few seasons carrying the Philadelphia 76ers on his back. He has continued to do so this season, though he now has James Harden to help him out. With a solid supporting cast around them, the Sixers are looking to finally break into title contention. Embiid told Sports Illustrated’s Chris […]

The LA Clippers took on the Philadelphia 76ers on Friday night in what was a blowout out for the Sixers, 122-97. Philly came out of nowhere to blow out the Clippers, and it was Joel Embiid who quickly had the last laugh after Tyronn Lue‘s pregame interviews. Prior to the game, Lue made some comments […]

The Philadelphia 76ers are in a packed race for the Eastern Conference’s top seed. They can hardly afford to lose, especially against the other three teams in the race. Unfortunately for the Sixers, they did just that against the Milwaukee Bucks. The Sixers’ 118-116 loss to the Bucks pushed them back to fourth place in […]

Giannis Antetokounmpo was in a jovial mood on Tuesday night after taking down Joel Embiid and the Sixers in their Eastern Conference marquee matchup. So much so, that the Milwaukee Bucks superstar decided to open his post-game press conference in the most unusual way. Giannis was literally carrying a Dad Jokes book to his post-game presser. […]

Giannis Antetokounmpo’s Bucks came out on top in the heavyweight Eastern Conference bout against Joel Embiid’s Sixers on Tuesday night, 118-116. With the 76ers down two points on the final possession, James Harden missed what would have been the go-ahead three-pointer. The ball ricocheted into the hands of Joel Embiid right underneath the basket, but […]

Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo won his showdown with Philadelphia 76ers big man Joel Embiid on Tuesday night, and Shaquille O’Neal knows the reason why. The Bucks edged the Sixers 118-116 in the game, with Giannis exploding for 40 points on top of 14 rebounds and six assists. Even better, the Greek Freak delivered the […]

Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo has won the MVP award twice already, and he just showed Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid how he did that: by making game-winning plays. On Tuesday as the Bucks faced off against the Sixers, Antetokounmpo delivered for Milwaukee with an incredible performance. He finished with 40 points, 14 rebounds and […]

PLAYA VISTA – The off-court battle between the LA Clippers and Philadelphia 76ers took another step on Monday, two whole days after the teams played. On Saturday, it was Sixers GM Daryl Morey who commented on Joel Embiid and James Harden, but before Monday’s practice, it was Clippers coach Tyronn Lue who fired back. Ahead […]

Philadelphia 76ers star Joel Embiid is flying high this season, emerging as a clear frontrunner for MVP alongside Nikola Jokic. Even more impressive, he’s done it all through the Ben Simmons drama, which surrounded the Sixers all season long until he was finally traded off to the Brooklyn Nets in March for James Harden. Embiid […]

The Philadelphia 76ers made a major move at the trade deadline to acquire James Harden to pair with MVP favorite Joel Embiid. Their early days together looked fantastic, but the Sixers have faltered slightly as of late. Nevertheless, this team still has title aspirations as they finally aim to get over that playoff hump. Speaking […]

The Philadelphia 76ers pulled a massive move ahead of the 2022 NBA trade deadline. The Sixers traded away Ben Simmons, Seth Curry, and Andre Drummond but got back James Harden from the Brooklyn Nets. Now, Philly has one of the best one-two punches in the entire league in Harden and Joel Embiid. Since the Harden trade, […]

Philadelphia 76ers President of Basketball Operations Daryl Morey took a stand for his players on Saturday. Morey replied to Clippers head coach Ty Lue’s controversial comments regarding James Harden and Joel Embiid. Lue recently proclaimed that Embiid and Harden would not be in the top 10 in scoring if their free throw numbers were taken […]

Coming out of the All-Star break, the Philadelphia 76ers found themselves in a race against time. At the trade deadline, Daryl Morey shocked the NBA world by pulling off a mega-deal to reunite with former MVP James Harden. Pairing a high-level player to pair alongside MVP frontrunner Joel Embiid instantly changed the course of the […]

For the second-straight season, Joel Embiid finds himself dead center in the MVP discussion. After falling just short last year to Nikola Jokic, the All-Star center elevated his game to new heights while leading the charge for the Sixers. Since returning to the lineup from health and safety protocols back in January, Embiid has been […]

LOS ANGELES – Everywhere the Sixers go to play, fans are becoming less intrigued with the idea of watching mid-game free throw contest James Harden and Joel Embiid. Head coach Tyronn Lue and the LA Clippers wanted to make it a point of emphasis to keep the duo off the line make someone else beat […]

James Harden may have just joined the Philadelphia 76ers, but he’s been in the NBA for quite some time. In over a decade of professional basketball, Harden has played with and against some of the greatest basketball players of all time. That being said, the former MVP’s opinion on this year’s honor shouldn’t be overlooked. […]

The Philadelphia 76ers’ season took a drastic turn at the trade deadline when they acquired James Harden in a mega-deal for Ben Simmons. After a months-long saga of off-court drama, the Sixers were finally able to remove the dark cloud from over their head. From the beginning, Morey made his stance clear on what he […]

After picking up a huge shorthanded win over the Miami Heat Monday, the Philadelphia 76ers traveled out west for a three-game road trip. First up was a meeting with a LeBron James-less Lakers team. Despite being without their star players, LA still managed to put up a good fight. In the end, this valiant effort […]

The Philadelphia 76ers are well on their way to the postseason tournament. The Sixers roster looks completely different than it did when the season kicked off in October. New faces replaced old ones in Philly’s attempt to win a championship. With a new roster comes new lineups and plays, and this has certainly caused a […]

In what felt like the blink of an eye, we have reached the final stretch of the 2021-22 NBA regular season. Teams have about 10 or so games left to play before the postseason officially gets underway. For some contenders, they use this time as a rest period to get their key players fresh for the […]

With just a few games before the NBA Playoffs, the Philadelphia 76ers need all the floor time they can get to develop more chemistry with James Harden. But it seems Sixers coach Doc Rivers is more concerned about ensuring Harden will be in optimal condition in the postseason. The star guard sat out their game […]

The Philadelphia 76ers will be coming into Monday’s game against the Miami Heat extremely shorthanded. It was earlier reported that leading MVP candidate Joel Embiid won’t be available with a sore back and it has now been confirmed that James Harden will also be joining him on the sidelines. The Sixers are playing in the […]

Monday night brings a marquee matchup between two of the Eastern Conference’s best teams as the Miami Heat visit the Philadelphia 76ers. However, Joel Embiid is a late scratch, leaving the Sixers without their big man due to back soreness on the tail-end of a back-to-back. Via Ramona Shelburne: On second night of back-to-back, Sixers […]

It’s a battle of top teams in the Eastern Conference as the Miami Heat travel north to take on the Philadelphia 76ers. It’s time to continue our NBA odds series with a Heat-76ers prediction and pick. The Heat is coming off a 120-108 at the FTX Arena in South Florida. Miami officially clinched the Southeast […]

Joel Embiid is making a very strong MVP case. The Philadelphia 76ers star is contending for the scoring title and leading the Sixers to a very good record. His health has been a key part of this, as he hasn’t missed back-to-back games since November. Soon, though, he might need to sit out in order […]

Based on how he has been playing throughout the season, it’s not difficult to make a case about Joel Embiid being the best big man in the game today. Reigning league MVP Nikola Jokic might have a thing or two to say about this notion, but what cannot be denied is that the Sixers superstar […]

Throughout most of his career, Philadelphia 76ers star James Harden has been “the guy” on his team. During his time with the Houston Rockets, Daryl Morey created a heliocentric roster that allowed the now-Sixers star to fully un-tap all areas of his game. Even when he joined the Brooklyn Nets, the former MVP was asked […]

After delivering an MVP-like performance on Friday for the Brooklyn Nets, Kevin Durant opened up about the current MVP race between Joel Embiid and Nikola Jokic, as well as his thoughts on not being in the conversation. The Nets gutted out a home win over the Portland Trail Blazers, but it wasn’t always pretty. At […]

The Philadelphia 76ers have come a long way since the early days of the infamous “Process” started off by revolutionary former general manager Sam Hinkie. After much roster upheaval, Joel Embiid has now made good on his MVP-level potential while having a roster around him featuring a former MVP in James Harden and high-level talent […]

When Ben Simmons’ trade to the Brooklyn Nets finally pushed through, Joel Embiid appeared to be one of the happiest men on the planet. As a matter of fact, he even posted a meme expressing just how glad he was to see Simmons out the door. Unsurprisingly, that tweet went viral and while Embiid hilariously […]

When the Sixers sent Ben Simmons to the Nets in exchange for James Harden, the blockbuster package included Andre Drummond and Seth Curry both also making their way to Brooklyn. The inclusion of Drummond and Curry in the trade was somewhat overlooked with all the attention focused on Simmons and Harden, who incidentally, both succeeded […]