Relief is here for the Philadelphia 76ers in the form of the Charlotte Hornets.
The Sixers are an 11-point home favorite against a 15-win team on the second leg of a back-to-back.
That feels like the ideal situation for the Joel Embiid-less Sixers to pick up a win and gain an ounce of confidence.
If that isn’t enough for you to feel great about the Sixers, well, they’re the fourth-best team (32-26) against the spread in the NBA. Charlotte (23-36) is the league’s second-worst ATS team.
Charlotte’s been a double-digit underdog in three of its last four games and it failed to cover in any of those contests.