Joel Embiid, Sixers (Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images)
Sunday night, the Philadelphia 76ers will host the Atlanta Hawks in a critical Game 7. That game may very well determine the Sixers’ future. A loss, and Doc Rivers’ seat gets warm, Daryl Morey gets aggressive, and Ben Simmons‘ future is thoroughly in doubt. A win, and the Sixers get to the conference finals, accomplish a seasons-long milestone, and fight the winner of Brooklyn/Milwaukee as underdogs.
The Sixers have been the better team for much of this series, and yet, two egregious collapses left the Hawks with a chance to close things out in Game 6.