These were new heights for Sixers point guard Jeff Dowtin Jr. Seldom a factor this season, he found himself stepping up onto a riser after Friday’s loss to Indiana, then taking a seat behind a table and fielding questions from reporters.
That’s right — it was a Dowtin Podium Game.
That might appear laughable and pitiful, except for the fact that Dowtin has been a case study in doggedness over the course of an itinerant NBA career now in its fourth year. Assured of nothing, he has clung to anything — any two-way contract, any summer-league spot, any smidgen of playing time — while bouncing from one organization to the next.