In life, sometimes things line up perfectly. You’re running late so you miss your train, you buy a ticket for the next train, sit down in the car and the girl next to you becomes your wife. Alchemy. Serendipity. All sorts of stars-aligning happenstances are all around us, all the time.
This is not one of those.
The series against the Celtics was an embarrassment for the Philadelphia 76ers franchise. Sure, Ben Simmons did not play, but basically every Sixer outside of Joel Embiid either underperformed or completely didn’t show up. Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown and Kemba Walker made a mockery of a Sixers team that once promised “Smash mouth offense and bully-ball defense.