On Monday night, the Sixers defeated the Denver Nuggets, 123-104, in front of an enthusiastic crowd at the Wells Fargo Center that cheered the return of Markelle Fultz, the first overall pick in June’s draft. It was the Sixers’ seventh-straight win, which keeps the team in fourth place in the Eastern Conference with just nine games remaining before the playoffs.
“He was smooth, confident, in control on the dribble and off of it,” my colleague David Murphy wrote of Fultz, who scored 10 points and landed 8 assists in his limited playing time. “The early returns suggest that Fultz can be a player who can help.