Tightness in Joel Embiid’s back forced the Sixers’ phenom to be a late scratch in the team’s 131-124 loss to the Pelicans Sunday night in New Orleans. My colleague Keith Pompey wrote after the loss that the team is “falling apart,” and blasted the Sixers’ lack of transparency in his most recent Locked on Sixers podcast.
It was the low point in the team’s current four-game losing streak, but the team’s woes aren’t stopping ESPN from going all-in with an ambitious plan to cover the 13-13 Sixers from morning to night ahead of the team’s Friday matchup with the Oklahoma City Thunder, which will tipoff at 7 p.