Words cannot do the Game 3 that the Brooklyn Nets and Philadelphia 76ers justice. It was, at the very least, an inner-circle contender for weirdest game of the season, playoffs or not, the sort of game that simultaneously lasts five minutes but also six hours.
There were two ejections, neither of which resulted from an attempted kick to the jewels that came two minutes into the game. Joel Embiid, a shoe-in for the MVP award, was so hobbled by game’s end that he did not touch the ball on his team’s two most important possessions, but momentarily recovered to fly across the court for a superhuman, game-saving block in the game’s final seconds.