"So our route from the airport to the hotel was almost like conspiracy theory stuff," coach Brett Brown said. "It was very espionage. We all got whisked away in different vans and enter through the back door and went up … sort of laundry elevators and got to our room.
"That represented the most interesting part of the night."
The team's flight from Philadelphia to Shanghai on Oct. 2 took 21 hours, 38 minutes because of a snow storm in Calgary. The plane made a scheduled stop in the Canadian city to refuel. However, the Sixers were delayed three hours there because of the weather.