PHILADELPHIA — Over a dozen NBA seasons divided among six teams, Sixers guard Cameron Payne has been on the floor for a lot of larger-than-life…
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CAMDEN, N.J. — Enough is enough. That’s how Philadelphia basketball expatriate Dawn Staley, the coach of NCAA Tournament women’s champion South Carolina feels about Sixers…
NEW YORK — There was Joel Embiid’s repaired knee, the Bells palsy affecting his right eye. There was Tobias Harris’ fade into basketball oblivion and…
NEW YORK — The ‘Nova Knicks, as Wildcats alums Jalen Brunson, Josh Hart and Donte DiVincenzo are known around the Philly area, have made a…
PHOENIX — The Timberwolves were en route to their first series sweep in franchise history Sunday in Phoenix. But the closing minutes — which ended…
PHILADELPHIA — The day began with a laugh, Sixers public address announcer Matt Cord appealing humorously to the primal instincts of Philly and New York…
PHILADELPHIA — With eight minutes left, the Knicks had the Sixers and Joel Embiid right where they wanted them. It wasn’t so much the six-point…
PHILADELPHIA — Usually, jumping at an opportunity is metaphorical. To watch Cameron Payne on the 76ers bench, though, it’s much more literal. “I hop around…
PHILADELPHIA — Joel Embiid took in the question late Thursday night like it was a big man charging down the lane. He’d just divulged the…
CAMDEN, N.J. — De’Anthony Melton, who has battled a back injury that has limited him to 38 Sixers games and yo-yoed him in the lineup,…
NEW YORK — The Sixers dominated the first five minutes of their opening round playoff game with the New York Knicks so much Saturday that…
NEW YORK — It’s been a while since a Philly sports coach finished a hotly contested game with a $39 million starter on the bench.…
CAMDEN, N.J. — When the play-in dust settled the seventh-seeded Sixers wound up favored over the New York Knicks, the Eastern Conference’s second seed, in…
PHILADELPHIA — It was the way the Sixers finished their 105-104 victory over the Miami Heat in the NBA’s 7-vs.-8 play-in Wednesday night that says…
CAMDEN, N.J. — Mystery always seems to follow Sixers star Joel Embiid, whose status for the play-in game Wednesday against the Miami Heat is anything…
PHILADELPHIA — If it wasn’t the strangest last day of an NBA regular season, it was right there. In the Eastern Conference, only the top-seeded…