The Houston Rockets and the Philadelphia 76ers. Star-crossed lovers? Two vessels lost at sea, careening gradually to the same port to arrive at different times? Or two NBA teams who just have a lot of odd linkage to one another?
Morey. Harden. Tucker, House. Embiid.
Embiid?
Tanking. That’s what clinches it. It’s strange enough that Morey got the band back together. What’s especially fortuitous is that he did so on a team that had tanked to get to contention. The Rockets just underwent the biggest tank job since... the Sixers. In simple terms, the Sixers tanked for Joel Embiid.