Daily News | Balling in Brooklyn: James Harden, Joel Embiid exonerated after a signature Sixers win
It will be remembered mostly for an off-target kick, a bullseye smack, and flagrant disregard for family jewelry, but the Sixers’It was a game the Sixers were supposed to lose. A game that, in the Joel Embiid and Doc Rivers era, they always lose. Remember Games 5 and 7 against the Hawks in the
lead. Instead, on hostile ground policed by sketchy referees, the Sixers’ depth and fortitude carried the day.The NBA did not suspend Embiid or Harden for Game 4. This speaks volumes. Embiid and Harden, unlike Warriors forward Draymond Green, are not perpetual goons, and Green’s perpetual goonery is whatFurther, Embiid was responding to a taunt; Claxton stood over him and glared.“We didn’t do a lot of things right. We just hung in there and won the game,” Rivers said.
Harden dropped 21 points and was cooking when, at the beginning of a move to the basket, he made contact with O’Neale’s midsection.hitting O’Neale in the groin The Sixers took a 3-0 lead in the best-of-seven series. No NBA team has ever blown a 3-0 series lead. Not even Doc. That seems the least likely thing to happen to this Sixers team.
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