This time one week ago, the sky was falling for Philadelphia 76ers fans.
The team was fresh off a heartbreaking loss to the rival Boston Celtics and a defeat to the Miami Heat that the Sixers treated with all the energy of a Summer League or preseason contest. The Sixers were well back of Milwaukee and Boston in the standings with Cleveland nipping at their heels. Philadelphia was about to enter a five games-in-seven nights road trip that was basically the league’s schedule makers flipping the double bird to the City of Brotherly Love.