PHILADELPHIA -- Please pass the superlatives.
There are not many nights during any NBA regular season when you feel as though you are experiencing a playoff game, be it the atmosphere on the court, in the stands, along the sidelines ... absolutely everywhere.
This one goes down in the memory banks for sure, an epic Friday night with more plots, subplots, lessons learned, lessons taught and eyes opened than you might ordinarily get over the course of an entire 82-game season.
The shoo-in for Rookie of the Year against the greatest player ever to play the game of basketball was the most dramatic part of it all, but there was so much more.