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Sixers play for pride and seek to avoid sweep in Game 4

Game 4 is often the most pivotal of a seven-game series. If a team down 2-1 can tie the series at two games apiece, it resets things anew as a best-of-three contest. Meanwhile, if the team up 2-1 can extend the series advantage with a Game 4 win, it becomes a lead so seemingly insurmountable that it became a meme when the Cavaliers managed to overcome it in the 2016 Finals.

Of course, this Game 4 is anything but pivotal. Thanks to poor late-game execution in Games 1 and 3, and an overall embarrassing performance in Game 2, the Philadelphia 76ers find themselves down 3-0 to the Boston Celtics.