There was no third quarter blown lead.
There was no letdown.
There was no great battle between Jimmy Butler and the team that traded him, because there was barely a game on Tuesday night. The Sixers pulled away from the Minnesota Timberwolves in the second quarter and ended the night with the 149-107 victory.
A lot of the talk before the game centered on Dario Saric and Robert Covington returning to Philadelphia, but Covington missed his seventh consecutive game with an ankle injury, and Saric scored a quiet 11 points for Minnesota.