Seth Gupwell spent two years as an online journalist covering culture, lifestyle, and sports in New Zealand, and is now in his first year writing about the Sixers for Liberty Ballers.
Making sense of your favorite NBA team is normally an easy task. Normally. One could explain away the Philadelphia 76ers’ catastrophic 7-17 start by pointing to injuries to star players and all the new names on the roster, using words like ‘chemistry’, ‘gelling’, and ‘ramp-up’. They’d be right, for the most part.
After a 3-16 start that included injuries to all three of their All-Stars, the team has gone on a 4-1 run over their last five games.