Despite the injection of life from new head coach Nick Nurse, and the optimism surrounding some of the young players on the roster, the James Harden situation has painted the entire Philadelphia 76ers enterprise with a cloud of dysfunction. Of course, any time there’s an appearance of weakness, the vultures come circling. One of those vultures is just up the way on I-95, as we see yet again in the latest reporting from The Inquirer’s Keith Pompey:
“The New York Knicks are closely monitoring the situation, hoping it ends with Embiid forcing his way out.